What’s new in OpenStack Havana
December 21, 2013 | Comments(0) |
OpenStack has evolved continuously with every release and with Havana release we have yet again a set of new features that make it even easier to build and deploy OpenStack clouds.
The new services introduced were:
- OpenStack Metering – provides a single source of usage data across services
- OpenStack Orchestration – template-driven service for describing automating deployment of services for apps
Now let us look at the new features for individual services.
1. OpenStack Compute:
- Support for Docker which speeds up application deployment with containers
- Additional features through the Dashboard
2. OpenStack Object Storage
- Global Clusters for Object Storage
- Performance improvements to disk operations and caching
- ConfD for better configuration management
3. OpenStack Block Storage
- Extend volume size
- Transfer volume ownership
- Migrate volumes
- Update Quotas
- QoS for Block Storage for guaranteed performance for apps
4. OpenStack Networking
- VPN-as-a-Service
- Firewall-as-a-Service
- Integration with new Metering service for better billing capabilities
- Hardware vendors can now write plugins for L2 networking
5. OpenStack Dashboard
- Greater multilingual support
- Improved UI, workflows and productivity
- Better virtualization of network topology
- Improved role and password management
6. Shared Services
- Image service now supports quotas and additional storage options
- Identity service now provides better separation between authorization and authentication
- Granular RBAC
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