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OpenStack’s modular architecture also enables you to pick the functionality you need — whether that’s bare metal or block storage provisioning — to plug into your infrastructure stack. This composability makes it easy to install just as much OpenStack as you need for a specific job. For example, OpenStack Ironic bare metal service now features enhanced integration for Cinder block storage and Neutron networking, and Cinder can now act as a standalone storage service for virtual machines, bare metal, or containers using Docker or Kubernetes.
“The features and upgrades that Pike brings are the lessons of experience you get from enabling thousands of public and private clouds, large and small, for seven-plus years,” said Jonathan Bryce, the OpenStack Foundation’s executive director in a statement. “The rise of composable services and simpler consumption options are part of that maturation process. Our community is now focused on eliminating future technical debt as well as growing OpenStack’s capabilities to support ever-expanding use cases.”
Pike jumps into existence as more OpenStack users are adopting a multi-cloud strategy and placing workloads across public and private cloud environments. According to the April 2017 OpenStack user survey, vendor lock-in was the number one business driver for OpenStack clouds, and 38 percent of OpenStack deployments interact with at least one other public or private cloud environment.
OpenStack is continuing to experience strong growth, with the April 2017 user survey reporting 44 percent more deployments compared to the previous year and new at-scale production deployments in Europe and China at China UnionPay, Paddy Power Betfair, and Tencent, which uses OpenStack to power WeChat. The software now powers 60 public cloud availability zones and over a thousand private clouds running across more than five million physical cores.
Want to try it? You can download OpenStack Pike and read the release notes starting on Aug. 30.
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