When I went to my first OpenStack summit in Paris 2014, it was a huge thing. A vision of an open-source private cloud went out of the bottle and the hype exploded. But in these two years, in the market where I work, I haven’t seen too much adoption. So this year I went to the summit in Barcelona with low to moderate expectations. Luckily I’ve been wrong, because OpenStack is still a huge thing. And here below are just few reasons why.
First of all – numerous improvements, which make OpenStack more robust, easier to maintain and upgrade. Auto-remediation, for example will automatically add more hypervisors or evacuate VMs in case of HW failure, resolve rabbitmq problems, clean log files etc. With Newton release you will be able to upgrade the cloud without taking it down. Another interesting feature is that now you can create pools of external IP addresses, or create a compute node without an IP address for later addition.
Next, a complete set of new projects. For example Murano, which facilitates application deployment. Developers can package and publish their applications in a catalog, and deploy them with a push of a button. Or Sahara for automatic deployments of Hadoop clusters for big data analytics.