OpenStack’s latest Icehouse release hits the streets

Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Brandon Bulter.

OpenStack releases a new version of its open source cloud computing code twice a year. And today is the day for Icehouse, the first release of 2014. OpenStack leaders say they are excited about how many of the changes in the Icehouse release have been influenced by end users of the platform.

"We’ve worked hard to build a community of developers and users, and they’re the ones driving the priorities of how the software evolves," says COO of the OpenStack Foundation Mark Collier. Large scale enterprise end users want improvements related to reliability, ease of use and upgradability…

In response, one of the new features is a rolling upgrade capability that allows OpenStack clouds and the services that make it up to be updated without having to be shut down. The last release, Havana, laid the groundwork for that functionality, and now the Icehouse release provides the first release for users to upgrade to…

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