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OpenStack Juno, the tenth release of the open source software for building public, private, and hybrid clouds has 342 new features to support software development, big data analysis and application infrastructure at scale. The OpenStack community continues to attract the best developers and experts in their disciplines with 1,419 individuals employed by more than 133 organizations contributing to the Juno release.
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OpenStack Juno has nearly 342 new features and 3,219 bug fixes signaling a continuing maturation of the software as the most widely-supported cloud platform. The Juno release adds enterprise features such as storage policies, a new data processing service that provisions Hadoop and Spark, and lays the foundation for OpenStack to be the platform for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), a major transformation driving improved agility and efficiency in telco and service provider data centers.
A Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) cross-project development team formed at the May Summit, and features began to land in the Juno cycle starting with the Compute project. Many operational updates were also made this cycle including improvements for rescue mode that users requested as well as allowing per-network setting on nova-network code. Key drivers were added such as bare metal as a service (Ironic) and Docker support through StackForge. Additional improvements were made to support scheduling and live upgrades.
Object Storage hit a major milestone this release cycle with the rollout of storage policies. Storage policies give users more control over cost and performance in terms of how they want to replicate and access data across different backends and geographical regions. Other new features include updated support for the Identity project (Keystone) and account to account copy feature rollout. Additional work on erasure coding within object storage continues and is expected sometime during the Kilo release cycle.
Block Storage added ten new storage backends this release and improved testing on third-party storage systems. Cinder v2 API integration into Nova was also completed this cycle. The block storage project continues to mature each cycle building out core functionality with a consistent contributor base.
Networking features support for IPv6 and better third-party driver testing to ensure consistency and reliability across network implementations. The release enables plug-ins for the back-end implementation of the OpenStack Networking API and blazes an initial path for migration from nova-network to Neutron. Supporting Layer 3 High Availability, the networking layer now allows a distributed operational mode.
Dashboard rolled out the ability to deploy Apache Hadoop clusters in seconds, giving users the ability to rapidly scale data sets based on a set of custom parameters. Additional improvements include extending the RBAC system to support OpenStack projects Compute, Networking, and Orchestration.
Federated authentication improvements allow users to access private and public OpenStack clouds with the same credentials. Keystone can be configured to use multiple identity backends, and integration with LDAP is much easier.
In Juno, it is easier to roll back a failed deployment and ensure thorough cleanup. Also, administrators can delegate resource creation privileges to non-administrative users. Other improvements included implementation of new resource types and improved scalability.
Telemetry reported increases in performance this cycle as well as efficiency improvements including metering of some types of networking services such as load balancers, firewalls and VPNs as a service.
The database service went through its second release cycle in Juno delivering new options for MySQL replication, Mongo clustering, Postgres, and Couchbase.
The Image Service introduced artifacts as a broader definition for images during Juno. Other key new features included asynchronous processing, a Metadata Definitions Catalog and restricted policies for downloading images.
The new data processing capability automates provisioning and management of big data clusters using Hadoop and Spark. Big data analytics are a priority for many organizations and a popular use case for OpenStack, and this service lets OpenStack users provision needed resources more quickly.
Thank you to the global team of 1,419 developers who delivered the tenth OpenStack release on time with every critical feature:
