OpenStack Operations Guide
by Tom Fifield, Diane Fleming, Anne Gentle, Lorin Hochstein, Jonathan Proulx, Everett Toews, Joe Topjian
Appendix D. Icehouse Preview
The Icehouse release of OpenStack was made available April 17, 2014, a few days before this book went to print! It was built by 112 different companies. Over 1,200 contributors submitted a patch to the collection of projects for more than 17,000 commits. All in all, this release had more than 113,000 reviews on those commits.
Here is a preview of the features being offered for the first time for each project. Not all of these features are fully documented in the official documentation, but we wanted to share the list here.
A few themes emerge as you investigate the various blueprints implemented and bugs fixed:
Projects now consider migration and upgrades as part of the “gated” test suite.
Projects do not have a common scheduler yet, but are testing and releasing various schedulers according to real-world uses.
Projects are enabling more notifications and custom logging.
Projects are adding in more location-awareness.
Projects are tightly integrating with advancements in orchestration.
The Block Storage, Compute, and Networking projects implemented the
x-openstack-request-idheader to more efficiently trace request flows across OpenStack services by logging mappings of request IDs as they cross service boundaries.
These sections offer listings of features added, hand-picked from a total of nearly 350 blueprints implemented across ten projects in the integrated Icehouse release. For even more details about the Icehouse release including upgrade notes, refer to ...
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