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(This article is an updated version of a post originally posted here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

OpenStack is busy with so much development activity it’s hard to keep up. \u00a042 (!) specs<\/a> were targeted for the 3-month long\u00a0Bexar development cycle<\/a>… and there are more than 150 active branches. Over December alone, we saw more than 900 commits by 60 different people ! Taking a step back, what new features should you expect to land on February 3rd, in the Bexar release ?<\/p>\n

Swift (OpenStack object storage)<\/h3>\n

The big news in Swift is support for unlimited object size, through the implementation of\u00a0client-side chunking<\/a>. The only size limit for your objects is now the available size in your Swift cluster ! You can read more about that exciting feature in\u00a0John Dickinson’s blog post<\/a>. We also hope to ship\u00a0Swauth<\/a>, DevAuth highly scalable replacement, directly into Swift codebase. Exposure of most of the\u00a0S3 API in Swift<\/a> may or may not make it.<\/p>\n

Glance (OpenStack image registry and delivery service)<\/h3>\n

The Glance image service will expose a\u00a0unified REST API<\/a> (no more distinction between the image registry and the image delivery services). We will also have the possibility to upload image data and metadata over\u00a0one single call<\/a>. Unified\u00a0client classes<\/a> will be shipped directly in Glance. We also hope to have a\u00a0S3 backend<\/a>…<\/p>\n

Nova (OpenStack compute)<\/h3>\n

There is so much coming up in Nova it’s hard to summarize. Nova will\u00a0make use of those new Glance client classes<\/a>, obviously. We will support booting VMs from\u00a0raw disk images<\/a> (rather than a kernel\/ramdisk\/image combination) and have a\u00a0rescue mode<\/a> to mount your faulty disks under a sane environment. We plan to have\u00a0instance<\/a> snapshots<\/a> ready. API servers can now\u00a0expose<\/a> optional admin features (through the –allow_admin_api flag), like a specific XenServer instance\u00a0pause<\/a> or\u00a0suspend<\/a> feature.<\/p>\n

Lots of improvements might go unnoticed, like the\u00a0internationalization<\/a> of messages, the standardization on services using eventlet, more robust\u00a0logging<\/a>, or\u00a0the move of the IP allocation\u00a0down the stack<\/a>. We’ll also finalize some incomplete features, like access to your\u00a0project VLAN through a VPN<\/a>,\u00a0security groups<\/a> that work in all network modes, and we hope to finally ship\u00a0Hyper-V<\/a> support.<\/p>\n

We hope to have much more: a\u00a0web-based serial console<\/a> to access your VMs,\u00a0ipv6<\/a> support, the possibility to deploy hardware in a\u00a0staging area<\/a> of your cloud, support for highly available block volumes through\u00a0Sheepdog<\/a>, instance\u00a0diagnostics<\/a> allowing to retrieve a history of actions on instances, the possibility to do\u00a0live migration<\/a> in nova-manage,\u00a0iSCSI support<\/a> for XenAPI… But let’s be realistic, not everything will land in time. What doesn’t make it will certainly be in the next release, Cactus, which will be released in April !<\/p>\n

Congrats to our awesome development team for making all this possible. Those last two months have been a very fun ride for me \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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