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OpenStack Foundation Showcases New Features, Roadmaps and Use Cases of Open Infrastructure Pilot Projects at OpenStack Summit Berlin
The OpenStack Foundation (OSF) launched four pilot projects in the last
12 months, emphasizing its expanded mission to help users integrate and
operate open infrastructure. The communities driving these pilot
projects-Airship, Kata Containers, StarlingX and Zuul-announced
substantial progress on new features, technology roadmaps and use cases,
and they are accelerating that progress via collaboration with the
broader open infrastructure community at the Summit this week, driving
their projects forward.
Airship
Community Delivers Release Candidate for Declarative Infrastructure
Management, 5G Demo at Berlin Summit
Airship makes it possible for users to deploy and manage containers,
virtual machines and bare metal infrastructure environments across
multiple sites in a repeatable and declarative fashion. The value of
Airship for 5G and edge computing is that users can deploy and easily
manage the same environment across hundreds or thousands of smaller
sites. There also is value for upgrades and lifecycle management in
large datacenters. Airship is a user-driven project being developed in
production by AT&T (News - Alert) and SK Telecom for 5G to NFV, VDI and big data
processing.
During the OpenStack Summit Berlin keynote today, AT&T is demonstrating
how its 5G commercial deployment is "born in the cloud," powered by
OpenStack while deployed and managed by Airship.
The Airship community will also feature its Release Candidate in Berlin,
ahead of the 1.0 version expected early next year. The community has
been actively developing the release candidate since the project was
introduced as an OSF pilot project in May and has achieved security at
scale, scalable operations and reliable upgrades, as well nightly CI/CD
validation of integrations and example deployments. The release
candidate is ready to try, and the community has developed "Airship
in a Bottle," an easy way to get started. Features on the roadmap
for the 1.0 release include thorough documentation and OpenStack Ironic
bare metal cloud integration.
***Learn more about the software and how to get involved in the
community at http://www.airshipit.org.***
Kata
Containers Advances Secure Container Runtime
Kata Containers is an open source project and community working to build
a standard implementation of lightweight VMs that feel and perform like
containers, but provide the workload isolation and security advantages
of VMs. Since its launch in December 2017, Kata Containers has scaled to
include support for major architectures, include AMD64, ARM and IBM
p-series.
After delivering its 1.0 release in May, the community is working on
1.4, which will offer better logging, ipvlan/macvlan support through TC
mirroring, and NEMU hypervisor support. The most recent 1.3.0 release
was delivered in September. Notable achievements include containers
getting entropy via virtio-rng, which creates a higher quality
randomness for random number generation. Additionally, Kata Agent now
has optional seccomp support, which is the first step to enabling
seccomp in Kata Containers in the future, an important capability for
end users.
The first Architecture Committee elections were held in September, and
the community welcomed Eric Ernst (Intel) and Jon Olson (Google) who
join existing members Samuel Ortiz (Intel), Xu Wang (Hyper), and Wei
Zhang (Huawei (News - Alert)).
The community recently hosted a meetup in China designed for large cloud
providers including Alibaba, Baidu, Tencent and more to share adoption
plans and feedback for the Kata Containers roadmap.
The Kata Containers community continuesto work closely with the OCI and
Kubernetes communities to ensure compatibility, and regularly tests Kata
Containers across Azure, GCP and OpenStack public cloud environments.
***To download the software or get involved in the community, visit katacontainers.io.***
StarlingX
Edge Cloud Celebrates First Release, Announces Technical Steering
Committee Members
The StarlingX community delivered its first release of the open source
edge platform for telecom and industrial IoT use cases on October 24.
StarlingX leverages components of Ceph, OpenStack and Kubernetes and
complements them with new services including configuration and fault
management with a focus on key requirements such as high availability
(HA), quality of service (QoS), performance and ultra-low latency.
The release reflects diversity in the StarlingX community, with 1,329
commits from 84 contributors, including developers representing 99Cloud,
China UnionPay, Fujitsu (News - Alert), Intel, NEC, SUSE and Wind River, among others.
The StarlingX Technical Steering Committee (TSC) was established with
the following members: Curtis Collicutt (INTERdynamix), Ana Cunha
(Ericsson), Shuquan Huang (99cloud), Ian Jolliffe (Wind River (News - Alert)), Miguel
Lavalle (Huawei), Brent Rowsell (Wind River), Dean Troyer (Intel) and
Saul Wold (Intel). Going forward, the community expects to hold
bi-annual elections for the TSC, starting 1H 2019.
***Download the first release of StarlingX at git.starlingx.io,
and get involved in the community at starlingx.io.***
Zuul
CI/CD users BMW and Leboncoin share case studies at scale
Zuul is an open source CI/CD platform designed to tackle the complexity
of open source integration by gating new code against multiple projects
and systems before landing a single patch. Zuul currently supports
Gerrit and GitHub and leverages the Ansible ecosystem for third-party
modules. Zuul is a new top-level pilot project at the Foundation but has
been in development for six years and proven at scale supporting the
OpenStack project.
At the OpenStack Summit Berlin today, a BMW keynote described how the
company is using Zuul for big software projects that need high CI/CD
performance. Also, Leboncoin, the largest French ecommerce destination,
is delivering their use case for Zuul at scale in
a session today.
Since the Zuul community launched version 3.0 in March 2018, they have
been rapidly adding new features and integrations, including stronger
integration with Github, support for Ansible 2.5, better usability, a
containerized quick-start and more efficient build pipelines. Nodepool
drivers for EC2, Kubernetes and OpenShift and are in review and support
for Azure, GCP, Gitlab and Pagure are in the works.
***To learn more about the software, read case studies or get
involved in the community, visit zuul-ci.org.***
Supporting Quotes
Ryan Van Wyk, AVP Network Cloud Engineering, AT&T
"Airship is the foundation of AT&T's Network Cloud, which is powering
our 5G core platform supporting a 5G launch in 12 cities this year. We
collaborated to create the Airship project to evolve how we deliver our
cloud platform at AT&T, as well as manage the lifecycle of the resulting
cloud. Airship enables us to deploy and operate OpenStack clouds with
the scale, speed, resiliency, flexibility and operational predictability
demanded of our Network Cloud platform."
Dr. Kang-Won Lee, SVP Software R&D Center, SK Telecom
"Airship is becoming the foundation of SKT's cloud infrastructure
deployment effort, including private cloud service, VDI cloud service,
big data and analytics cloud platform, and network virtualization. It
enables us to deliver both OpenStack clouds and Kubernetes-based
container infrastructure. SKT strongly supports the community's efforts
to evolve Airship as a valuable open infrastructure project in OpenStack
ecosystem."
Dr. Dan Chen, senior director of Edge Computing, Intelligent Network
Center, China Unicom (News - Alert)
"We have run a full validation on StarlingX over the past six months.
StarlingX improved efficiency on high-availability in both VMs and at
the controller level. It also optimized the required number of nodes to
support edge-deployment scenarios. Features were added in fault
management, rolling upgrading, inventory discovery and VNF acceleration.
StarlingX provided capability in VM-applications/VNFs hosting, and it
also can be extended to support containerized applications in the
future. It is one of the top strategies of China Unicom to build an
'open' edge platform. As an 'Open Infra' technology for edge computing,
StarlingX will play an essential role in China Unicom's edge strategy."
Mark Collier, COO, the OSF
"As the governance structure of the OSF is evolving to meet the needs of
our open infrastructure community, these four pilot projects are already
demonstrating impressive progress. What they've accomplished in a short
period of time is a proof point that focusing on open infrastructure is
the right model, putting users at the center of everything we do."
About OpenStack Summit Berlin
Attendees from more than 50 countries are at OpenStack
Summit Berlin this week, interacting with speakers from
industry-leading companies and discussing innovation in open
infrastructure including edge computing, CI/CD, artificial intelligence
(AI), network functions virtualization (NFV) and container
infrastructure, as well as public, private and hybrid cloud strategies. Browse
the OpenStack Summit agenda featuring sessions from more than 35
open source projects.
Analysts and media can contact [email protected]
for registration information.
About the OpenStack Foundation (OSF)
The OpenStack
Foundation (OSF) supports the development and adoption of open
infrastructure globally, across a community of 100,000 individuals in
187 countries, by hosting open source projects and communities of
practice, including datacenter cloud, edge computing, NFV, CI/CD and
container infrastructure.
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