Amsterdam, 23 maart 2023 - De OpenStack community kondigt vandaag de
release van Antelope aan, de 27e versie vanOpenStack is een centraal
onderdeel van LOKI (Linux, OpenStack en Kubernetes Infrastructure), de
open source standaard voor het runnen van moderne cloud infrastructuur.
In Antelope leveren OpenStack contributors een groot aantal
verbeteringen voor de snel groeiende user base van de software (166%
toename in computer cores sinds 2020), waaronder: een nieuwe release
frequentie, sterkere integratie met Kubernetes en andere open source
technologieën, en uitgebreide ondersteuning voor geavanceerde hardware.
Antelope is de eerste nieuwe release die is ontworpen om de eisen aan
operators om elke zes maanden te upgraden, te verlichten. Er kan nu
gekozen worden voor een upgradecyclus van één keer per jaar, met een
upgrade per Skip Level Upgrade Release Process of "SLURP" release.
Antelope is een SLURP-release. OpenStack Bobcat, de 28e release van
OpenStack, is een niet-SLURP-release die gepland staat voor oktober
2023.
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OpenStack ‘Restarts the Alphabet’ with Antelope Release as Users Worldwide Embrace LOKI as the OpenInfra Standard of Deployment
OpenStack contributors deliver a host of enhancements to support
rapidly expanding user base: new release cadence, hardware enablement
features, stronger integration with Kubernetes and other open source
technologies
AUSTIN, Texas — March 22, 2023 —The OpenStack community today
released Antelope, returning to “A” in its alphabetical release-naming
protocol as it issues the 27th version of the world’s most widely
deployed open source cloud infrastructure software. OpenStack is central
to the LOKI trifecta (Linux, OpenStack, and Kubernetes Infrastructure),
the open source standard for running modern cloud infrastructure. In
Antelope, OpenStack contributors deliver a host of enhancements to the
software’s rapidly expanding user base (166% increase in compute cores
since 2020), including: a new release cadence, stronger integration with
Kubernetes and other open source technologies, and expanded support for
advanced hardware.
New Release Cadence
Antelope is the first in a new release cadence designed to ease the
demands upon operators to upgrade every six months. Deployments will now
be able to opt into a once-a-year upgrade cycle, upgrading with every
Skip Level Upgrade Release Process or “SLURP” release. “Not-SLURP”
releases will be available in each six-month interim for those who wish
to upgrade more frequently. Antelope is a SLURP release; OpenStack
Bobcat, the 28th release of OpenStack, is a non-SLURP release slated for
October 2023.
“Red Hat's customers demand that we strike a balance between
stability and recency. To meet their needs, our OpenStack distribution
had pivoted away from twice-yearly releases in favor of less frequent
upgrades spanning multiple upstream versions,” said Eoghan Glynn,
director of OpenStack engineering at Red Hat. “The Antelope release
marks a new era for us, with community support for testing compatibility
between non-adjacent versions under the new SLURP cadence. The
flexibility shown by the community in reaching this compromise shows how
resilient the OpenStack project continues to be, as usage of our
awesome technology evolves.”
Integration with Kubernetes
According to the 2022 OpenStack User Survey, Kubernetes is now
deployed on over 85% of OpenStack deployments: 73% through vanilla
Kubernetes itself. The rise in OpenStack and Kubernetes production
integrations is further documented by an increase to 21% (up from just
16% last year) of users running production workloads with Magnum, the
OpenStack service for container orchestration.
In Antelope, Magnum has been updated to support Kubernetes v1.24
running on Fedora CoreOS 36 and 37. Magnum has also been recertified as a
Kubernetes orchestrator, passing the software conformance testing
hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). This
certification ensures that every vendor’s version of Kubernetes supports
the required APIs; for organizations using Kubernetes, conformance
enables interoperability from one Kubernetes installation to the next.
Hardware Enablement
In Antelope, OpenStack contributors continue to expand support for new hardware. For example:
- Cinder added new backend drivers (HPE XP iSCSI and FC, Fungible
NVMe-TCP, NetApp NVMe-TCP storage drivers) and added features to
existing vendor drivers.
- Ironic can now export application metrics from the ironic-conductor
service into Prometheus, alongside hardware metrics. Previously these
were only accessible via statsd.
“With OpenStack deployments growing exponentially, our community has
provided in the Antelope release not only the maintenance required to
uphold OpenStack’s reputation for stability but also expanded support
for new hardware and software integrations,” said Kendall Nelson, senior
upstream developer advocate at the OpenInfra Foundation. “The Antelope
release reflects this, for example, in security enhancements in Neutron
and Glance, the hardware enablement advancements in Cyborg, and the
recertification of Magnum as a Kubernetes orchestrator. We are grateful
for the dedicated developers who keep OpenStack at the forefront of
cloud computing and to the committed organizations who support their
efforts.”
About OpenStack
Launched in 2012, OpenStack is the one infrastructure platform for
deployments of diverse architectures—bare metal, virtual machines (VMs),
graphics processing units (GPUs) and containers. Now more than a decade
old and oft-praised for its “boring” stability, OpenStack is alive and
thriving, with more than 40 million cores in production and over 300
public cloud data centers worldwide running the software. Today,
OpenStack is one of the top 4 most active open source projects in the
world, boasting more than 586,000 changes from over 9,000 contributors
since 2012.
Ninety percent of the world’s largest telcos run OpenStack, and
established users continue growing their deployments. The Million Core
Club now comprises seven organizations that each have more than 1
million OpenStack cores in production. The 2022 OpenStack user survey
documented that organizations of all sizes are scaling significantly to
address the requirements of their end users. Many of these
organizations—including Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC),
Bloomberg, Boston University, CERN, Cleura, Huawei, LINE, MET Norway,
Nipa Cloud, Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences, Samsung SDS, SAP,
Schwarz IT and Viettel—will be presenting their OpenStack use cases and
best practices at the upcoming OpenInfra Summit in June.