07 June 2017
Red Hat has announced the latest version of its “massively-scalable” and IaaS.
The open source specialist says OpenStack Platform 11 delivers enhanced support for upgrades with composable roles, new networking capabilities, and improved integration with CloudForms, Red Hat’scloud management platform.
Based on the OpenStack Ocata software release, it’s claimed the new version delivers a reliable cloud platform built on the proven, enterprise-grade backbone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The company reckons that it provides the agility to scale and more quickly meet customer demand without compromising availability, performance or IT security requirements.
The introduction of composable roles allows operators to create customised profiles for individual services and processes to suit their unique needs. Red Hat says this helps to improve operation and efficiency by allowing operators to scale and manage the individual services they need at any moment, rather than scaling the entire cloud.
The firm says OpenStack services can now also be composed individually and assigned, enabling operators to place components such as databases, proxies, or messaging services on specific nodes based on their unique requirements.
This includes adding customised roles post-deployment to a running cloud, providing more flexibility to customers or partners as they become more successful with their cloud services.
Red Hat adds that the inclusion of CloudForms serves as a hybrid cloud management and monitoring platform It says this not only oversees OpenStack infrastructure components, but also the workloads running on a given OpenStack cloud.
Other features include expanded networking and NFV support.
For instance, OpenStack-based VMs can now send and receive VLAN encapsulated traffic while being deployed over Open vSwitch or the OVS Data Plane Development Kit.