What’s new in OpenStack Havana?

Introduction

OpenStack has evolved continuously with every release and with the 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 the automating deployment of services for apps

Brief about New Features

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

Conclusion

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