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Revision as of 08:44, 24 September 2012 by Launchpad (talk)

OpenStack 2012.2 (Folsom) Release Notes

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OpenStack Object Storage (Swift)

Key Features

Known Issues

Upgrade Notes

OpenStack Compute (Nova)

Key Features

Known Issues

Upgrade Notes

OpenStack Image Service (Glance)

Key Features

  • Completely new v2 API
  • Completely new client - python-glanceclient
  • Client SSL certificate validation on glance-api
  • Tenant-specific storage in Swift
  • Image replication using glance-replicator

Known Issues

  • v2 API requires sql configuration on glance-api nodes

Upgrade Notes

  • auth_token middleware configuration moved from paste configuration to server confguration
  • Set enable_v2_api to 'false' to disable new v2 API or copy sql configuration from glance-registry.conf to glance-api.conf
  • Update local keystone code before starting Folsom glance services

OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon)

Key Features

Known Issues

Upgrade Notes

OpenStack Identity (Keystone)

Key Features

  • PKI Support for authentication
  • Integration into openstack-common libraries
  • Swift AUTH middleware allowing overrides of authentication
  • Consolidation of CLI option names to global openstack standard (use hyphens)

Known Issues

  • V2 API exposes token within the URL
  • If a tenant is deleted in Keystone, there is no orchestration to verify that resources associated with that tenant are disabled and/or removed in other projects (glance, nova, swift, etc)
  • The Keystone CLI lacks a means of reporting the tenants that a user is associated with
  • auth_token middleware requires installation of almost all of keystone, is not in its own package
  • LDAP backend is lacking TLS/LDAPS support
  • No active directory specific LDAP backend
  • V2 API is not backed by RBAC

Upgrade Notes

OpenStack Network Service (Quantum)

Key Features

  • First "core" release of OpenStack Quantum
  • v2 tenant-facing API to control L2 networking and IP address management
  • pluggable network back-ends technologies, including Open vSwitch, Cisco, Linux Bridge, Nicira NVP, Ryu, and NEC.
  • support for overlapping IP addresses on different L2 networks.
  • new and improved CLI
  • DHCP service with support for overlapping IPs.
  • support for OpenStack notifications and API quotas.
  • extension support for "provider networks" that map to physical VLANs or flat networks.
  • extension support for basic L3 forwarding, SNAT, and floating IPs. Support for multiple routers.
  • Keystone-integrated API policy framework to allow support different API-modes: tenant network control or admin-only network control.

Known Issues

  • Nova security groups and metadata server are not compatible with overlapping IPs.

Upgrade Notes

OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder)

Key Features

Known Issues

Upgrade Notes

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