OpenStack’s new code release packed with enterprise features
October 17, 2013
Grazed from IDG. Author: Brandon Butler.
The latest code release of OpenStack’s cloud computing platform named Havana is packed with features that organizers say appeal directly to enterprise audiences. OpenStack is a turning into a broad project with more than a dozen open source components. While it started with basic compute and storage functionality, it’s grown to support virtual networking, identity and access management, and now new to this week’s release are tools to help better manage and deploy clouds.
Havana’s release has two major new components, and updates to a variety of others. One major new project is code-named Heat, which is an orchestration platform that allows users to more easily provision OpenStack-based clouds. Using Heat application developers can feed templates into the program and it will automatically deploy the resources. It can launch applications, create virtual machines and it automates the entire process, they say. It also provides cross-compatibility with Amazon Web Service’s orchestration platform named CloudFormation, which means AWS templates will work in OpenStack environments…
Another new project is Ceilometer, which is a service that collects usage data across an OpenStack cloud. It integrates with OpenStack’s authentication and identity management system to provide granular tracking data, including which users are using which resources and for how long. For service providers, it has an automated billing feature…
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