OpenStack: The "Essex" Release
OpenStack Essex, the fifth version of OpenStack, focuses on quality, usability and extensibility across enterprise, service provider and high performance computing (HPC) deployments. OpenStack Essex allows users across the globe to leverage pools of on-demand, self-managed compute, storage and networking resources to build efficient, automated private and public cloud infrastructures.
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OpenStack Essex sets the pace for open source cloud infrastructure, and we're delighted to include it in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. The combination makes a robust platform for utility computing with tremendous momentum among early adopters and large scale deployments. OpenStack and Ubuntu are the key ingredients in multiple new public clouds.
MARK SHUTTLEWORTH, UBUNTU FOUNDER AND VP, PRODUCT STRATEGY, CANONICAL
Essex Features & Screenshots
OpenStack Dashboard
The OpenStack Dashboard allows cloud administrators to create and manage projects and users, defining resources available to them.
Launching Instances
Users can simultaneously launch and manage multiple compute instances, as well as storage and networking resources in the OpenStack Dashboard.
User Limits
Users can launch and customize instances in the OpenStack Dashboard within the limits their administrators have set.
Dashboard Video Demo
Walk through Essex with a 5-minute video overview of some of the new features of Essex.
More Essex Features
OpenStack Compute (code-name Nova)
Focus on stability and integration with Dashboard and Identity, including enhancements to feature parity among the tier one hypervisors -- making it a seamless user experience across each hypervisor -- improved authorization and live migration with multi-host networking. There were also contributions to support high-performance computing and additional block storage options, including support for Nexenta, SolidFire, and NetApp storage solutions.
OpenStack Object Storage (code-name Swift)
Significant new features to improve compliance and data security with the ability to expire objects according to document retention policies, more protections against corruption and degradation of data, and sophisticated disaster recovery improvements. Also new capabilities important to service providers including the ability to upload data directly from an authenticated web page and the ability to restrict the maximum number of containers per account.
OpenStack Dashboard (code-name Horizon)
The first full release of OpenStack Dashboard provides administrators and users the ability to access, provision and automate cloud-based resources through a self-service portal. The extensible design makes it easy to plug in and expose third party products and services, such as monitoring.
OpenStack Identity (code-name Keystone)
The first full release of OpenStack Identity unifies all core projects of the cloud operating system with a common authentication system. The technology provides authorization for multiple log-in credentials, including username/password, token-based and AWS-style logins.
OpenStack Image Service (code-name Glance)
The Image Service received several key updates to improve usability, authorization and image protection.
List of Contributors
Thank you to the global team of 200+ developers who delivered the fifth OpenStack release on time and with every critical feature:
- termie
- Gabriel Hurley
- Brian Waldon
- Dolph Mathews
- Johannes Erdfelt
- Vishvananda Ishaya
- Ziad Sawalha
- Dan Prince
- Mark McLoughlin
- Joe Heck
- Rick Harris
- Russell Bryant
- Alex Meade
- Jesse Andrews
- Eoghan Glynn
- jakedahn
- Joe Gordon
- annegentle
- Andy Chong
- Anthony Young
- Chris Behrens
- Mark Washenberger
- Monty Taylor
- Chmouel Boudjnah
- Kevin L. Mitchell
- Lorin Hochstein
- Brian Lamar
- Julien Danjou
- Ewan Mellor
- gholt
- Yogeshwar Srikrishnan
- Tres Henry
- Naveed Massjouni
- Jay Pipes
- Jake Dahn
- Pádraig Brady
- Thierry Carrez
- razique
- Armando Migliaccio
- Michael Still
- ZhongYue Luo
- Paul McMillan
- Hengqing Hu
- Daniel P. Berrange
- Josh Kearney
- Jason Kölker
- Brad Hall
- Dean Troyer
- Aaron Lee
- John Dickinson
- Adam Gandelman
- Chuck Short
- Justin Santa Barbara
- Tihomir Trifonov
- Andrew Bogott
- Dan Wendlandt
- James E. Blair
- jeffjapan
- Emma Steimann
- Devin Carlen
- Stuart McLaren
- Soren Hansen
- John Postlethwait
- Trey Morris
- lzyeval
- Florian Hines
- Philip Knouff
- Alvaro Lopez Garcia
- Maru Newby
- Derek Higgins
- David Goetz
- Monsyne Dragon
- Sandy Walsh
- Ed Leafe
- Yuriy Taraday
- Pete Zaitcev
- Yaguang Tang
- MotoKen
- Todd Willey
- François Charlier
- Neil Johnston
- Duncan McGreggor
- John Garbutt
- Alan Pevec
- Jake Zukowski
- Jim Yeh
- Mike Pittaro
- Peng Yong
- Ionuț Arțăriși
- Carlos Marin
- Doug Weimer
- Cole Robinson
- Mandell Degerness
- Justin Shepherd
- David Subiros
- Andrews Medina
- masumotok
- Renuka Apte
- Michael Basnight
- Mike Perez
- john-griffith
- Tomoe Sugihara
- Unmesh Gurjar
- Isaku Yamahata
- Samuel Merritt
- Adrian Smith
- Dragos Manolescu
- Doug Hellmann
- Paul Bourke
- Yun Mao
- Liem Nguyen
- Mike Lundy
- Ghe Rivero
- Édouard Thuleau
- Joseph W. Breu
- Matt Dietz
- Adam Young
- Alvaro Lopez
- Eamonn O'Toole
- Ben McGraw
- Dave Lapsley
- Kiall Mac Innes
- Ralf Haferkamp
- Salvatore Orlando
- Thorsten Tarrach
- Nikhil Komawar
- Andrew Clay Shafer
- Tyler North
- Deepak Garg
- Jason Cannavale
- Major Hayden
- Nachi Ueno
- Asbjørn Sannes
- Sumit Naiksatam
- Scott Moser
- Greg Althaus
- Ahmad Hassan
- Ivan Kolodyazhny
- Paul Voccio
- Marcelo Martins
- Joshua McKenty
- Scott Simpson
- Christopher MacGown
- Joe Savak
- Daniele Valeriani
- JC Martin
- Wayne A. Walls
- yuanke wei
- David Mortman
- Pavan Kumar Sunkara
- MORITA Kazutaka
- Brent Roskos
- Arvind Somya
- Michael Barton
- Rainer Toebbicke
- Darrell Bishop
- Stephane Angot
- Jonathan Gonzalez V
- monsterxx03
- Tomas Hancock
- Juan J. Martinez
- Felipe Reyes
- Donagh McCabe
- aababilov
- Xiaohua Guan
- Guang Yee
- Bhuvan Arumugam
- garyk
- Ollie Leahy
- Likitha Shetty
- Jimmy Bergman
- Ken Thomas
- Cor Cornelisse
- Gabe Westmaas
- Jorge L. Williams
- renukaapte
- Will Kelly
- ziadsawalha
- Akira YOSHIYAMA
- vishvananda
- Andy Smith
- Shevek
- Darren Birkett
- Yong Sheng Gong
- Christian Berendt
- Nirmal Ranganathan
- Tim Simpson
- Ken Pepple
- Reynolds Chin
- Matt Stephenson
- Ante Karamatić
- John Griffith
- Mark McClain
- Sean Dague
- Andrew Hutchings
- Dave Walker (Daviey)
- Rob Esker
- Mikyung Kang
- Devdeep Singh
- Evan Callicoat
- chris fattarsi
- Nick Bartos
- Liam Kelleher
- sateesh
- Mike Milner
- dcramer
