Bare-metal provisioning leads features of 11th major release
The eleventh version of OpenStack appeared on the project's official download servers on Thursday, arriving on time and bringing with it hundreds of new features for cloud-builders.
"As core of platform matures, focus turns to interoperability in the market, raising the bar for driver compatibility, and extending the platform to fit workloads with bare metal and containers," the OpenStack maintainers said in a statement accompanying the release.
This release, known as Kilo – where K is the eleventh letter of the alphabet – is the first major version of OpenStack to ship since the Juno release in October. It introduces 400 new features and includes input from 1,492 contributors representing 169 companies.
Perhaps its most prominent feature is that it introduces the first full release of Ironic, an API that can be used to provision workloads to run directly on server hardware, rather than in VMs. The OpenStack maintainers say Ironic is already in production use at some companies, including in Rackspace's OnMetal managed cloud offering, but with the new release it's ready for broader adoption.
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