In the upcoming OpenStack Juno release, set to officially debut on Oct. 16, the big new addition will be the Sahara project. Sahara was originally known as Savannah and provides a Hadoop big data as a service capability to OpenStack.
3Running OpenStack on Bare Metal Is Ironic
Cloud computing assets are generally associated with virtual servers, but there is also a need for real bare metal hardware servers. The OpenStack Ironic project enables bare metal cloud deployment. Ironic was recently approved to be part of the integrated OpenStack Kilo release in 2015.
4Share Files With OpenStack Manila
The OpenStack Manila project was approved earlier this month for incubation. “We aim to provide a vendor neutral management interface that allows for provisioning and attaching shared filesystems such as NFS, CIFS, and more,” the Manila project’s incubation application states.
5Designate Provides DNS as a Service for the Cloud
Another project that recently entered into official OpenStack incubation is the Designate DNS-as-a-service project. Among the big contributors to Designate is HP.
6Zaqar Builds Out OpenStack Marconi
The OpenStack Zaqar project, originally known as Marconi, aims to bring a full messaging service to OpenStack. Zaqar is currently an incubated project and was recently passed over for graduation as part of the OpenStack Kilo release set for 2015.
7Barbican Keeps Cloud Security Keys
The Barbican project was originally known as Cloudkeep and is an effort to build a cloud service for keeping secure keys.
8Congress Might Bring Policy to OpenStack
The Congress project is not yet an official OpenStack incubated project, though it might become one at some point in the future. Congress is an effort to build a policy-as-a-service layer for OpenStack.
9Solum Bridges the PaaS Gap
The Solum project, which also is not yet an official OpenStack incubated project, is an attempt to more easily enable a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) layer for OpenStack.
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