Outline of the Icehouse release webinar moderated by Mark Collier, who was joined by Kamhout of Intel and Troy Toman of Rackspace, both of whom have experience operating OpenStack clouds. Check out what’s new in the Icehouse release and how the voice of the user is coming through loud and clear in our maturing platform.

1. OpenStack Icehouse Release
Webinar
April 17, 2014

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www.openstack.org/software/icehouse

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OpenStack Icehouse Speakers
Mark Collier
Chief Operating Officer
OpenStack Foundation
@sparkycollier
Das Kamhout
IT Principal Engineer
Intel
@dkamhout
Troy Toman
Cloud Architect
Rackspace
@troytoman
Moderator

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OpenStack Cloud Platform

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“OpenStack has crossed the
threshold and will become another
de facto IaaS standard before the
end of the year, when OpenStack
compatibility will be a must, not a
nice-to-have.”
Source: Forrester Research, Inc., State Of Cloud Platform Standards: Q1 2014, March 2014

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Thank You Icehouse Contributors!
www.openstack.org/icehouse

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How Icehouse Delivers What Users Want
Operators Mini-Summit
March 2014

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How Icehouse Delivers What Users Want
User requests Icehouse delivers
Upgrades without
downtime
Rolling upgrades with no impact to user
workloads
Drivers should supply
consistent experience
50 external testing systems now part of how
OpenStack is created
Use public & private
cloud with a single ID
Keystone added federated identity to Icehouse
(CERN)
More automation of
common tasks
Database as a service
Consistent platform
Cross-project coordination and state
management, boot process
Storage Improvements
- Tiered Block Storage
- API discoverability & s-sync: Object Storage
Icehouse page: www.openstack.org/icehouse
List of 350 features: http://status.openstack.org/release/

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OpenStack Icehouses Technology Themes
Operator-Driven
Updates Mature
Integrated Release
Efficiency at
Scale
• Testing for drivers and upgrades
• Rolling upgrades with no downtime
• Easier to manage, reliability and
consistency across services
• Innovation happening through the
incubation process
• Object Storage discoverability and
replication options (s-sync)
• Block Storage horizontal scalability
• Data layer performance
improvements for large deployments
Tighter Platform
Integration
• Boot process reliability across
platform services
• Consistency across services

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Key Growth Stats
Developer Growth
1,202 contributors to Icehouse; a 32% increase from
the Havana release
Total Number of
Features
Approximately 350 new features; focus on testing,
maturity and stability this release cycle
Bugs Fixed 2,902 bugs fixed during the Icehouse release cycle
Top Companies
Committing Code
Red Hat, IBM, HP, Rackspace, Mirantis, SUSE,
OpenStack Foundation, eNovance, VMware, Intel; users
in top 20 include Samsung, Yahoo! and Comcast
Translations
Dashboard now supports 16 languages;
internationalization team translated nearly 700,000
words during Icehouse cycle
Testing
53 third-party CI systems registered in Icehouse cycle,
starting from less than five

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What are the
most significant
changes
you’ve seen
from Havana to
Icehouse?

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How has
OpenStack
evolved within
your
organization?

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How
do
your
teams work
inside the
community to
succeed with
OpenStack?

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Atlanta Summit: May 12 – 16, 2014
https://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-summit-atlanta-2014/