Red Hat OpenStack Platform

2020: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16

On February 21, 2020 the Red Hat company announced release of OpenStack Platform 16, upgraded version of the scalable and flexible solution of the class IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service). According to the developer, offering more than one thousand improvements and functions, this version represents the good IaaS-base for start practically of any corporate and telecom loadings in production and developer hybrid cloud environments and also for implementation of the cloud focused tasks, such as virtualization of network functions (NFV), peripheral calculations, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).

According to the statement of the developer, OpenStack Platform 16 it is constructed on the basis of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Linux- platforms of a corporate class, and helps customers to implement more innovations in shorter term and with smaller quantity of obstacles. Upgraded version offers long-term lifecycle, implements complex consolidation of tools and will be regularly replenished with the practices of community OpenStack brought to the corporate level through stream-releases. OpenStack Platform 16 integrates functionality OPEN SOURCE- the OpenStack draft of versions of Rocky, Stein and Train and also the best Red Hat OpenStack 14 and 15 elements.

OpenStack Platform 16 helps the organizations and telecom operators to transform with bigger efficiency the IT infrastructure to the flexible, effective and innovation computing environment open for opportunities of digital economy. Thanks to the principle of modularity the solution allows both to optimize operation of already available traditional applications, and to receive the base for development and deployment of the cloud focused applications of new generation, claim in Red Hat.

As the developer noted, OpenStack Platform 16 allows the customer to carry out standardization and to work in the uniform version of the platform up to five years. As a result of an IT command can unroll more surely on this platform traditional and cloud workloads, fully using flexibility, scalability and innovations of a hybrid cloud with long-term support of Red Hat of the corporate level.

Long lifecycle of OpenStack 16 allows customers to get access to new features quicker, than ever, without transition to upgraded version of the platform – saving balance between the stability of solutions of a corporate class necessary for the organizations, and high speed of development of innovations in open community OpenStack. Relying on extensive experience of Red Hat in replenishment of functionality of software with long lifecycle practices of open communities, customers can provide high-quality innovative solutions to clients with an uncompromising speed, consider in Red Hat.

Integration with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat OpenStack Platform is capable to provide unity and coordination of all aspects of services, supports, acquisitions and payments and also managements of lifecycle of this solution, allowing to implement the last innovations with a minimum risk. Lifecycle of OpenStack Platform 16 matches lifecycle of RHEL 8 that reduces terms of testing and certification of applications and well affects work of a corporate IT system, noted in Red Hat.

According to the developer, OpenStack Platform is widely applied to creation of hybrid and private cloud environments by hundreds of customers worldwide. Red Hat OpenStack Platform also differs in an extensive ecosystem of partners in creation of corporate solutions which includes such companies as Cisco, Dell, HPE, IBM, Intel, Juniper Networks, Lenovo, NetApp, Nuage, NVIDIA and others.

For February, 2020 OpenStack Platform 16 is already available to loading on the Red Hat Customer Portal portal in the presence of the operating subscription to Red Hat OpenStack Platform.

"Having aligned lifecycle with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, we offer the rate of implementation of new features which was more balanced and not requiring change of the version of the platform, such as peripheral calculations or NFV. Thus, we give to the IT organizations the chance to independently select the optimal speed and scales of an innovation", 'Joe Fernandes, the vice president of Red Hat for cloud platforms noted'

2019: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 15

On September 19, 2019 it became known that the company Red Hat released Red Hat OpenStack Platform 15, the next version of highly scalable and dynamic cloud IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service). This version is based on release of Stein of the open project OpenStack and offers more than performance and security during the work in a cloud and also expanded support of the hardware for more first and safe line support of exacting workloads. The solution is constructed on the basis of operating system Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

During an era of digital transformation operational efficiency and capability to unroll dynamically IT systems become a key factor of success. This version of Red Hat OpenStack Platform suggests to achieve these goals, having integrated innovations of community OpenStack.

Key features of Red Hat OpenStack Platform 15

• The powerful platform for loadings, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, due to support of Nvidia GPU/vGPU technology at decision making in the mode close to real time.
• The increased security without decline in production due to transfer IPSec-enciphering on the level of the network adapter increases the scalability and capacity available to production loads.
• The improved network at the expense of the stack finished taking into account features of modern network applications TCP/IP helps to raise aptaym applications and security of loadings.
• The expanded choice of hardware architecture due to support of IBM Power9 LE PowerVM provides additional options at creation of failsafe infrastructures.
• Support of hardware securities of HSM for the improved generation and key management of enciphering when using of the supported HSM solutions provides safer and centralized cryptographic message exchange.

RHEL 8 is supported as guest OS on the Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 platform which has long lifecycle of "long-life release".

Owners of the operating subscription of Red Hat OpenStack Platform can get access to OpenStack Platform 15 on the Red Hat Customer Portal portal.

The hybrid cloud sets clear and accurate perspective of corporate IT systems, and Linux and private clouds are reference stones of this transformation. OpenStack Platform 15 is highly scalable infrastructure of a private cloud which is completely ready to transition to hybrid cloud environments and is constructed based on the host of Linux platform of a corporate class. This solution integrates in itself innovations of open community with opportunities the smart operating system to help the organizations to receive the maximum advantage of hybrid cloud environments of the future, told Joe Fernandes, the vice president and the director of cloud platforms of Red Hat company

AI and the systems of machine learning is essentially other opportunities for digital transformation, but for to use them fully, front lines of technologies of parallel computings are required. We closely cooperate with Red Hat that the powerful computing NVIDIA platform for tasks of the last generation could be used on Red Hat OpenStack Platform that the customer could apply our innovations and program solution AI of our partners on highly scalable Red Hat platform,

2018

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14

On November 14, 2018 the company Red Hat announced Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14, the version of the scaled cloud IaaS- the solution completely ready to deployment applications. The solution is based on OPEN SOURCE- the draft OpenStack of the version of Rocky and offers closer integration with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, the Kubernetes-platform of a corporate class, strengthening the potential of Kubernetes technologies on the OpenStack platform in the corporate sector. Increasing efficiency of use of resources of "naked iron" servers(baremetal) and expanding possibilities of the automated deployment, Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14 provides the uniform infrastructure base for traditional virtualized loadings and modern cloud applications.

Being based on the leading Linux distribution kit of a corporate class, Red Hat OpenStack Platform, according to the developer, gives to the organization the chance to transform the IT infrastructure to more flexible, effective and innovation IT environment. The modularity of the Red Hat platform helps to optimize IT transactions for already available traditional program systems and offers the reliable base for development and deployment of cloud applicaions of new generation.

"Being the actual standard of orchestration Linux containers, Kubernetes is a crucial element in a packet of corporate technologies of digital transformation, but can realize completely the potential only in the presence of the scalable and flexible underlying platform. Having strengthened and having improved integration of Red Hat OpenShift, the Kubernetes-platform of a corporate class, and the version of Red Hat OpenStack Platform, we offer the powerful and reliable base for cloud workloads. This base will help IT specialists to implement more effectively innovations, using already available knowledge and skills, and to combine in the work computing environments of different types, including server baremetal more actively". Joe Fernandes, vice president of Red Hat for products and head of cloud platforms

Red Hat emphasized that as transition to cloud applicaions and containers becomes an important element of strategy of digital transformation, to the forefront there is an opportunity effectively to unroll and scale corporate Kubernetes-solutions on the OpenStack platform. Therefore Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14 offers not only a hosting of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, but also automation of key tasks of preparation and scaling of IT resources for use of the Kubernetes-platform of a corporate class:

• The automated preparation of resources of "naked iron" and virtual infrastructures for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux nodes – allows to use the same cloud solution both for container, and for the virtualized workloads when the organization moves towards cloud loadings on "naked iron".
• The automated deployment of production-clusters of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform of high readiness (HA) – helps to simplify a way to the continuity of IT transactions due to elimination of a uniform point of failure.
• The integrated network (Kuryr) – allows the container loadings of OpenShift and virtual loadings of OpenStack belonging to one tenant to use the same virtual network for performance improvement at the level of architecture.
• The automated use of the built-in services of balancing of loading OpenStack for container front-end of loadings.
• Use of the built-in object storage OpenStack for an effective hosting of container registers.

In Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14 there was an opportunity to scale the Red Hat OpenShift nodes up-down using tools of management Director that allows to redistribute dynamically resources in process of change of requirements of workloads. It can help to increase efficiency of use of computing resources, especially when the organization looks for the new directions for business or studies possibilities of start of new services, consider in Red Hat.

Accomplishment of workloads of new generation on "naked iron" allows to involve most fully powerful computing opportunities of the modern equipment upon transition to cloud computing. But only on condition of unity and coordination of control of servers on "naked iron" and the virtualized nodes as it is made in the solution Red Hat.

As the developer noted, Red Hat OpenStack Platform on "naked iron" allows to use this class of systems for accomplishment of cloud loadings, like those that work for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, with much best controllability and coordination, than earlier, it is more than the speed also of flexibility without loss of controllability and stability. In particular, integration of Ansible for network devices and mechanisms of preparation of IT resources automates reconfiguration of network switches for reliable isolation of cloud tenants. Red Hat OpenStack Platform on "naked iron" in combination with the appropriate program of certification of the equipment simplifies and reduces the price of the choice of the hardware components which are guaranteed working with the solution Red Hat.

Thanks to expanded integration with Red Hat Ansible Automation, process of deployment of Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14 became simpler, than in the previous versions. Before starting Red Hat OpenStack in the production-mode, operation specialists can organize a preliminary run to identify and fix problems. Also process of deployment became more transparent that also accelerates localization and troubleshooting, including, if necessary, repetition of steps on reservation of computing powers and deployment of the isolated environments, the developer claims.

According to representatives of developer, the provided version of the IaaS-solution Red Hat also offers some other functions, such as:

• Processor scaling for resource-intensive loadings and new classes of tasks, like graphic rendering and the systems of artificial intelligence due to support as Technology preview of the NVIDIA GRID Virtual PC (vPC) technology providing sharing of GPU NVIDIA with several virtual machines and to applications.
• The improved work with data warehouses in respect of availability, controllability, security and data migration due to additional integration with Red Hat Ceph Storage, including a possibility of sharing of the same storage Cinder several virtual machines.
• Inclusion of Skydive, the tool of the network analysis simplifying validation, documentation and troubleshooting in difficult network topology (Skydive, the version of Tech Preview).

The IT environment of each organization is unique in respect of the used equipment, infrastructure software and client applications. Therefore Red Hat aims to offer customers of Red Hat OpenStack the most wide choice, including not only x86 platforms, but also in the IBM Power system.

Since November, 2018 Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14 will become available in the form of an independent product on the Red Hat Customer portal and also as a part of solutions Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure and Red Hat Cloud Suite.

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13

On May 24, 2018 the company Red Hat announced Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13, the next version of the cloud IaaS- the solution. Being based on OPEN SOURCE- the project OpenStack of Queens version, proposes the solution Red Hat to corporate customers a basis for creation hybrid clouds and carrying out digital transformation, minimizing difficulties at the expense of the mode of updating Fast Forward and providing high integration on all stack of technologies.

Red Hat OpenStack Platform accelerates delivery of applications and services at the expense of the reliable and expanded private cloud. The solution allows to turn corporate IT infrastructure into more flexible and effective environment necessary for achievement of success in a digitalization era, consider in Red Hat.

According to information provided by the developer, Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 allows the customer to implement a cloud computing architecture in the data center and to achieve elasticity of resources, scalability and growth of efficiency, including, due to expanded integration with cloud computing of Red Hat, such as:

• Red Hat CloudForms is the solution on management of hybrid cloud infrastructure;
• Red Hat Ceph Storage is the scalable integrated storage for fast deployment of hundreds of virtual machines based on one image and obtaining completely supported solution on data storage;
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform – turns Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 into the expanded platform for cloud-native of workloads, adding to scalable and universal architecture of Openstack support of Linux containers and orchestration using Kubernetes.

To simplify updating between versions with long-term support, Red Hat OpenStack 13 offers the Fast Forward mechanism helping IT specialists of the customer to enter additional functionality into the OpenStack environment at the minimum operational risks. The Fast Forward mechanism provided through Red Hat OpenStack Platform Director allows to select the optimal mode of updating: or on the accelerated scheme with updating of times in half a year and use of functions from the branch of the project supported by forces of community OpenStack; or traditional option with fixing on versions with long-term support. The additional functionality facilitates transition from Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 to version 13, allowing to perform it with the smaller number of resets and without use of the additional hardware, noted in Red Hat.

According to the statement of the developer, Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 there is a cloud platform combining high stability, availability and security with flexible innovation opportunities:

• Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 expands a scope and extends containerization to all services OpenStack, including network services and services of the data warehouse.
• Expansion of opportunities OpenStack – integration into the structure of Red Hat OpenStack Platform of 13 open projects of security, such as OpenStack Barbican, provides management of lifecycle of critical data, including passwords, safety certificates and keys, at the level of the tenant (tenant). Barbican opens opportunities for enciphering use, such as encoded volumes Cinder, signature of images of Glance and enciphering of objects of Swift. Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 also expands a scope of TLS on internal communications for such services as VNC, OpenDaylight and Redis that facilitates observance of regulations of security of FedRAMP, SecNumCloud and other industry standards of risk management.

As the developer of the platform noted, Red Hat OpenStack Platform differs in the extensive ecosystem of partner solutions including corporate products Dell EMC Intel Lenovo, NetApp and Rackspace and also enjoys support telecommunication of industry members, including Cisco Ericsson Huawei, NEC and Nokia. Thanks to this Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 is suitable for development, deployment and support of key telecom services and client applications in the field of communications, offering operators the following advantages:

• Integration and support of OpenDaylight, the modular open platform of configuring and automation of software-defined networks, using Red Hat OpenStack Platform Director. It allows to implement advantages of adaptive network solutions on the basis of the Open source software.
• Hypervisor of "KVM of real time" on the basis of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time Kernel for Wednesdays where ultra-low delays are required.

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 will appear in June, 2018 as an independent product and also as a part of packets of Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure and Red Hat Cloud Suite.

2017

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12

The Red Hat company, solution provider open source, announced on November 8, 2017 Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12 — the next version of the scalable and flexible cloud platform of the class IaaS. The solution is constructed on the basis of the dug-out OpenStack draft of the version of Pike and for the first time implements konteyerizirovanny services that helps to accelerate application development due to bigger flexibility and smaller complexity of IT systems. Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12 also received a number of serious improvements, including the upgraded mechanisms DCI (distributed continuous integration) and the optimized security aids for risk management and ensuring compliance to rules on work with data, says Red Hat.

In the whole Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12, constructed on a basis OS Red Hat Enterprise Linux and intended for creation of private and public cloud infrastructures, represents the version of OpenStack Open Source tested, certified and provided with support of the corporate level. Also is a part of Red Hat OpenStack Platform Red Hat CloudForms — the multicloud platform of management implementing transparent operational control and infrastructure management and workloads of Red Hat OpenStack Platform on a basis the politician. Besides, Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12 is closely integrated with Red Hat Ceph Storage, the program DWH providing block, file and object data warehouses with horizontal scaling.

Containerization of OpenStack services

For acceleration of an output to the market of offers of the modern organization the cloud infrastructure capable to distribute resources quicker and with bigger scalability is necessary. Packaging of OpenStack services in Linux containers solves this problem, increasing flexibility of such processes as upgrade, rollback to the previous version and service of services, and at the same time facilitating operation of a cloud. Besides, containerization simplifies scaling of OpenStack services, helping to react quickly to change of loading on sides of users.

Regardless of deployment option, whether it be installation from scratch or the automated updating using the director tool, Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12 packs most OpenStack services into containers and also on the terms of Technology Preview executes a konteyerization of network services and services of data storage. As result, strategic partners of Red Hat have an opportunity to certify the drivers and the connected modules for this model of deployment, minimum mentioning service of customers.

The optimized security

The Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12 functions, such as automated infrastructure enrollment service, help to increase security due to control automation by lifecycle of safety certificates. Components of the OpenStack Block Storage platform (Cinder) and Bare Metal Provisioning (Ironic) are updated for support of enciphering of volumes and the improved work with disk sections respectively. Expanding support of global initiatives in the field of risk management, Red Hat offers customers of Red Hat OpenStack Platform an opportunity to load on the Customer Portal portal the security guidance in which means, methods and recommendations about implementation of measures of security at creation of the protected OpenStack environments are considered.

The increased flexibility

The concept of a komponuyemost for the first time appeared in Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 with introduction of compound (composable) roles, sets of separate processes and services which operators can create at discretion. Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11 expanded use of compound roles that with their help to simplify deployment and updating of the platform. Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12 goes further away and represents the arranged composable networks.

In the previous versions of Red Hat OpenStack Platform the choice from strictly set set of network topology was offered users, and in version 12 there is an opportunity more freely to define network topology by the arranged networks. Besides, operators can define an unlimited number of networks, including using popular topology of L3 spine-and-leaf that simplifies setup of corporate solutions OpenStack taking into account specifics of scaling.

Besides, Red Hat OpenStack 12 supports open API Redfish DMTF for arranged (composable) of infrastructures now that provides interoperability of the Red Hat platform with Intel Rack Scale Design (Intel of RSD) and others industry solutions with API Redfish support.

Network automation using OpenDaylight

In Red Hat OpenStack 12 further development was gained by technology preview the version of OpenDaylight, the modular platform with the open code intended for setup and automation of software-defined networks (SDN). In the aspiration to help customers to increase the speed and capacity of networks, Red Hat steadily expands support of virtualization of network functions (NFV) within the OpenDaylight system for OpenStack. In particular, the company not only optimized implementation of Data Plane Developer Kit (DPDK) within the version of OpenDaylight, but also increased performance at the expense of opportunities of SDN, noted in Red Hat.

Distributed Continuous Integration

Earlier Red Hat provided Distributed Continuous Integration (DCI) — the mechanism of interaction of customers and partners with Red Hat OpenStack Platform. The main objective which Red Hat pursued at start of DCI was in making the software platform by OpenStack optimal due to automation of problems of deployment, testing and a feedback with customers and partners at stages before release of releases of software. Thus, Red Hat had an opportunity to test and control work of the platform on examples of real customers and the partner companies. Information collected by DCI helps engineers of Red Hat to reduce time necessary for identification, development, testing and release of program corrections.

Availability

In the nearest future Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12 will be available on the Red Hat Customer Portal portal and also as a part of solutions Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure and Red Hat Cloud Suite.

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11

On May 25, 2017 the Red Hat company announced the version of the OpenStack Platform 11 IaaS-platform. She is created on the basis of Ocata release - the open OpenStack project and offers the mechanism of updating of components of the platform using compound roles, enhanced network capabilities, the improved integration with a management system of Red Hat CloudForms.

In Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11 integration with Red Hat Ceph Storage is improved, an opportunity to unroll it on the computing OpenStack node is created (earlier this was perhaps in the version of techpreview). Ceph Storage can provide for OpenStack mirroring of data warehouses and, as a result, replication between the websites for disaster recovery.

Mechanism of updating of components of the platform

In the previous version of Red Hat OpenStack Platform there were compound roles – sets of separate services created by the operator. By means of such roles it is possible to scale precisely certain services without scaling of a cloud in general that simplifies and accelerates setup of a system in response to change of requirements of the enterprise. At the same time compound roles complicated updating of components of the platform. For the solution of this problem in Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11 the mechanism of updating of compound roles providing the flexible and approved deployment and updating of components is created.

Configuration of services OpenStack can be executed and appointed in an individual order, it allows operators to place components - databases, proxy services or messenger services on specific nodes. Add compound roles to earlier unrolled, working cloud that increases quality and flexibility of service of customers and partners in a measure of expansion of their needs for cloud computing.

Expanded support of network and NFV

Management of networks and virtualization of components of network (NFV) remain the significant OpenStack functions, and in OpenStack Platform 11 a number of opportunities which can be used in standard corporate scenarios and large-scale configurations of suppliers of communication services or IT services is offered.

In VLAN-aware virtual machines acceptance and sending packets with VLAN tags virtual machines in OpenStack are completely supported when using Open vSwitch (OVS) or OVS Data Plane Development Kit (OVS-DPDK) now. Functions and the opportunities for telecom providers implemented in upgraded versions of OVS and DPDK increase system performance.

The improved management system of Red Hat CloudForms

The improved integration with a management system of Red Hat CloudForms facilitates day-to-day running of Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11. In particular, Red Hat CloudForms which is a part of Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11 supports control and management of OpenStack regions, several domains aggregated by nodes (host aggregates) now, providing the unified approach to display of a status of a cloud and its efficiency. Besides, in the version management of data warehouses is improved, in particular, Red Hat CloudForms supports transactions with pictures, such as creation, display and removal.

Features of product lifecycle

The product lifecycle model according to which versions are divided into long-term and intermediate is presented in the previous version of Red Hat OpenStack Platform. Every third version of Red Hat OpenStack Platform, starting with the 10th, is long-term and is provided with support for up to five years. Other versions, and among them Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11 - intermediate are also provided with support in one year, including support concerning migration and updating to the next versions of a product.

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11 is available to loading on the Red Hat Customer Portal portal in the form of an independent product or as a part of technologies Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure and Red Hat Cloud Suite.

2016

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10

On December 16, 2016 the Red Hat company announced release of Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10, a cloud solution of the class IaaS with the high level of scalability and adaptivity.

Having OpenStack Open Source of the version of Newton in the basis, the solution Red Hat is proposed by a number of functions which improve scalability of a system, facilitate infrastructure management, expand abilities to manage, increase performance of network transactions and increase security. Lifecycle of Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 provides support of a product for up to 5 years.

Red Hat OpenStack Platform works at the heart of the hybrid and private cloud environments ensuring functioning of the crucial systems of hundreds of corporate customers among whom there are a BBVA financial group, the Cambridge university, the developer of financial and analytical solutions FICO, Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA, the online bookmaker Paddy Power Betfair, Swisscom operators and Verizon, the supplier of cloud services of UKCloud. One more strength of the Red Hat platform - a powerful partner ecosystem, as a part of which suppliers of the certified solutions of a corporate class Cisco Dell EMC Fujitsu Intel Lenovo, Rackspace and NetApp Ericsson Nokia NEC, Huawei and other leading representatives of the telecom industry.

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 offers the customer a reliable cloud platform at the heart of which Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Representing the strengthened and modifed option of OpenStack Open Source, the solution Red Hat provides the high level of adaptivity and scalability, allowing to react quickly to change of requirements and the customer's requests, without renouncing availability, performance and security. Red Hat CloudForms, the platform of management and monitoring for hybrid cloud environments providing control both over OpenStack infrastructure components, and over the workloads which are executed in OpenStack cloud also is a part of the solution Red Hat OpenStack Platform. It is in addition provided 64TB of the capacity of a software-defined storage system of Red Hat Ceph Storage that will allow to estimate the potential of the flexible and hyper scalable Ceph system.

As a part of Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 key innovations and improvements are offered:

• The facilitated work with a system at the expense of the simple and user-friendly graphical interface for installation and maintenance of a system. The Red Hat OpenStack Platform Director graphical interface received a number of new features, such as automatic update of modules (including Ceph), expanded setup of network configurations and means of high availability and also deployment of the general access to files means of Manila service using the integrated drivers of Netapp and Red Hat Ceph Storage.
• It is more than scalability due to additional flexibility which is provided with introduction of the configured services and administrative roles, (are created using Red Hat OpenStack Platform Director). The version allows operators of the OpenStack cloud environments to execute scaling of the environments and to configure in them start of services independently of each other that increases flexibility at deployment of the services necessary for this or that workload.
• The improved data protection at the expense of advanced means of high availability to large-scale environments and other completions. Optional enciphering of object storage and time security tokens increase security and reduce risks of unauthorized access to data.
• Increase in productivity of the loadings which are intensively working with network. It is reached at the expense of the new DPDK component (Data Plane Developer Kit) as a part of the module Open vSwitch and also SR-IOV technology (Single-root Input/Output Virtualization) thanks to which performance on processing of network input-output reaches the high level. Network routing became became faster and flexible, with a possibility of the choice of the centralized or distributed implementation (DVR).
• Program of certification of the equipment Ready-state which is based on the OpenStack Ironic project. Red Hat supported the certified hardware plug-ins for some OpenStack components also earlier, however the program helps to expand an ecosystem of hardware solutions for the automated deployment on servers without the preset software. The Dell EMC company became the first partner of Red Hat who underwent certification of Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 Ready-state, in the nearest future this list will be replenished with several more equipment manufacturers.

Lifecycle with support for up to 5 years

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 offers two lifecycle models of a product. Within the first model long-term versions of Red Hat OpenStack Platform with three-year main lifecycle and in addition purchased support the next two years are offered the customer. The second model is focused on those who are interested in regular updating of the platform to the latest version of times in half a year or time a year.

Every third release, since Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 will be long-term. Other versions will have lifecycle of support within one year.

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9

On September 1, 2016 the Red Hat company announced release of the version of OpenStack Platform 9.

Version 9 of the platform Red Hat is created on the basis of release OpenStack Mitaka and offers the ready to use automated cloud platform with the strengthened protection which is integrated with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2, Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 and Red Hat CloudForms, providing integrated management and monitoring in hybrid cloud environments.

Advertizing Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9, (2016)

As a part of Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 technology improvements at the level of almost all services OpenStack are offered:

• Automatic update of software using Red Hat OpenStack Platform Director – the solution Red Hat allows to execute updating of the OpenStack environment using mechanisms of automation and check of the Red Hat OpenStack Platform Director tools which are constructed on the basis of the open TripleO project (OpenStack on OpenStack) and considerably simplifies transition to new versions of OpenStack at minimization of idle time of the environments working in the mode of commercial operation.
• Live migration and tough binding to the CPU means of OpenStack Compute (Nova) – the Compute component provides the accelerated and improved transfer of the working copy of VM, allowing the administrator to control visually the course of process and to stop and renew tasks on migration accomplishment. Function of a tough binding of virtual CPUs to physical main cores can dynamically change behavior of a hypervisor for loadings, exacting to delays, such as NFV, providing thinner performance management.
• The preliminary version of the driver of backup of Google Cloud Storage for OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder) – Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 continues cooperation with Google company and offers the politicians of disaster recovery supporting the public cloud storage of Google Cloud Storage using the built-in driver that helps to organize the additional level of protection of crucial data in a hybrid cloud.

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 helps to reduce terms of start of services and to create functionality of self-service for system administrators at the organization of the private OpenStack cloud environments by means of connection of a management system of Red Hat CloudForms and the organization of a uniform environment with high extent of automation. Red Hat CloudForms is a part of a subscription of Red Hat OpenStack Platform and the politician offers sensors, monitoring and deep check of the OpenStack resources which allow to organize management of lifecycle and operation of all components of infrastructure of OpenStack and also working in this environment of virtual workloads at a basis.

The upgraded Red Hat OpenStack Platform Director provides deployment of program storage Red Hat Ceph Storage which is used in the private Red Hat OpenStack Platform cloud environments and offers the client the scalable cloud storage with a free capacity of 64 TB.

Workloads which customers execute in the OpenStack environments become complicated. Therefore the new, 9th version of Red Hat OpenStack Platform is beyond traditional tasks of providing the flexible and protected platform for creation of private cloud environments and offers the new features allowing the enterprises to simplify and improve operation of such environments, and to service providers – to implement solutions on the basis of architecture of NFV. Radhesh Balakrishnan, the CEO on products OpenStack, Red Hat

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 is the version of the OpenStack platform from Red Hat which part program DWH of Red Hat Ceph Storage and tools of management Red Hat CloudForms is.

Separate cloud solutions on the basis of OpenStack from Red Hat are an open platform of industrial level which integrates highly scalable infrastructure with management tools and the technologies increasing productivity of developers and also has extensive an ecosystem of the certified software and hardware partner solutions. Available as the Red Hat OpenStack Platform platform or in the form of the integrated packet of Red Hat Cloud Suite, cloud solutions of Red Hat provide creation of the scalable failsafe IaaS environments.

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8, the version of highly scalable IaaS platform which represents the option finished by Red Hat company freely extended software of OpenStack of the version of Liberty integrated with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system for receiving the ready to industrial use and meeting the most modern requirements cloud platform is the cornerstone of hybrid cloud solutions of Red Hat. The Red Hat platform gained recognition in telecommunication and the IT industries which leading representatives will integrate around it to go to software-defined networks (SDN) and virtualization of network functions (NFV).

With release of Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 the Red Hat company offers the OpenStack platform which regularly supports the following functions:

• Automatic update – the Red Hat OpenStack Platform Director component provides simple transition to new major and intermediate versions, automatically executing necessary updates in scales of a system both for the main services OpenStack, and for the Director component. Helps to support OpenStack cloud in serviceable and stable condition at the minimum idle times.
• Infrastructure management and workloads – the Red Hat CloudForms tools provides effective management of infrastructure of OpenStack and workloads of Linux and Windows, including management of lifecycle of loadings, monitoring, reports, multi-nodal orchestration, regulation and management on a basis the politician.
• The software-defined storage – is high - scalable program DWH of Red Hat Ceph Storage which is a part of Red Hat OpenStack Platform now, provides support of the flexible object and cloud storage with a capacity of 64 TB. Is the most popular DWH for the OpenStack cloud environments, providing the universal platform for support of the growing amounts of data in such environments.
• Special functions for telecom operators (preliminary versions) – Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 contains a number of the new and important features concerning virtualization of network components including a real-time mode for a hypervisor of KVM (increases predictability of delays), support of libraries and the DPDK drivers at the level of the Open vSwitch switch (increases performance of network input-output), the plug-in OpenDaylight providing a possibility of creation of software-defined networks.