OpenStack New version: Add nearly 350 features to fix bugs exceeding 2,900

"Editor's note" in the 6 months before the official release of the OpenStack Icehouse version, there are more than 120 companies and organizations from around the world to participate in, the code contributor more than 1200, up from the 2013 Havana version of the increase of 32%. The analysis from Forrester, a consultancy, says that OpenStack has gradually become the de facto infrastructure cloud (IaaS) standard. In the new version, Red Hat, IBM, HP, Rackspace, and Mirantis continue to lead according to the number of code submissions. The focus of this edition upgrade is to improve the stability and maturity of the project, and to improve the consistency of the user experience, especially for storage. The introduction of Discovery and a new replication process (called S-sync) on object Storage (Swift) projects improves performance. New block storage capabilities enable OpenStack to have better performance in a heterogeneous environment. Federated authentication allows users to access both the OpenStack private cloud and the shared cloud through the same authentication information. The new project trove (DB as a service) is now part of a version that allows users to manage relational database services in a OpenStack environment.

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U.S. time April 17, OpenStack Icehouse version of the official release, this is the OpenStack open source cloud computing project since its inception in 2010, the 9th version. Over the past 6 months, more than 1200 code contributors have been involved in the development of the Icehouse, up 32% from the Havana version in 2013, with employees from more than 120 companies and organizations around the world, who continue to grow fast and globally. The analysis from Forrester, a consultancy, says that OpenStack has gradually become the de facto infrastructure cloud (IaaS) Standard:

-source:forrester, Inc., State of Cloud Platform STANDARDS:Q1 2014, procures 2014

In the OpenStack Icehouse version, nearly 350 new features were added, more than 2,900 bugs were fixed, and the community became more concerned about improving OpenStack maturity and stability. According to the number of submitted codes (commits), the company that contributed the top ten in the OpenStack Icehouse version is shown in the following illustration. Red Hat, IBM, HP, Rackspace and Mirantis continue to lead.

For detailed code contributor statistics, see Official data: Http://activity.openstack.org/dash/releases/index.html?data_dir=data/icehouse ( Description: Icehouse's statistics include hatching project and integration project

Highlights of the Icehouse version:

Overall: for integration projects (integrated project), focus on the stability and maturity of each project while incorporating new functionality and better integration with other platform services

Consistent user experience to improve testing thresholds, especially for storage

The object Storage (Swift) project has some major updates, including a discovery introduction and a new replication process called S-sync to improve performance

New block storage capabilities enable OpenStack to have better performance in a heterogeneous environment

Federated authentication will allow users to access both the OpenStack private cloud and the public cloud through the same authentication information

The new project trove (DB as a service) is now part of a version that allows users to manage relational database services in a OpenStack environment

Some analysts and users commented:

"We have deployed some applications in our own OpenStack environment, and we are gradually integrating with OpenStack," he said. The release of the Icehouse version gives us a lot of new features that will have a big impact on us. Impact includes scheduler improvements, virtual machine instance creation and deletion. Every new release lets us see a more mature and stable openstack, which gives us more confidence in OpenStack platforms and communities. "--mike Wilson,bluehost Advanced System Architect

Cloud computing has become our business strategy because it enables our developers to develop products faster and provide our services in a flexible, scalable architecture. By using OpenStack, we have not only chosen a cloud computing platform, but in addition, we realize that we have chosen an ecosystem, in the OpenStack community, we have the ability to influence the direction of the software, Share knowledge and technology with carriers and build a healthier and stronger network with other companies in the community. "--andrew mitry,comcast Senior architecture manager