Some people still claim that OpenStack, the open source Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud, is dead. They are so, very wrong. Via Statistaamount, OpenStack is the most popular open source cloud. And what is more important to Red Hat is telecommunications, such as Verizon mobile network and 5G network, life and death thanks to OpenStack. So it’s no surprise that Red Hat Launches Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOP) 17 at Mobile World Congress in Las Vegas on Wednesday, the company discussed how OpenStack and telecommunications work in tandem.
I mean, when you’re talking about over 2.5 billion mobile users running on RHOP, you’re talking about real money.
With this release, Red Hat also emphasizes how it works closer to Kubernetes-based OpenShift release. Some people have the illusion that OpenStack and Kubernetes are rivals. Not so. As Red Hat is showing, they can work together to get the benefits of both the virtual machine and the container.
Maria Bracho, lead product manager at OpenStack, explains, “Over the past few years, the conversation has been not about a religious dispute between the two platforms but where their workloads are best served. ” So OpenStack 17 now supports a virtualized control plane that runs with OpenShift. This allows users to run both Kubernetes-based cloud-native services and virtual machines (VMs) in the same cloud.
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Also, if you want to run OpenShift on bare metal, then you can work with OpenShift and OpenStack as that works better for your workload. Bracho added, “We’ve done a lot of work to make sure the platforms can be used together. Plus, you can run both. virtual network functions (VNF) and cloud native network functions (CNF) on paired platforms. There is also a open virtual network (OVN) migration tool to validate migrations between Open vSwitch (OVS) and OVN and support to reduce the load for smartNICs. There is also a technology preview of role-based access control (RBAC) with enhanced enforcement on OpenStack services for more security. ”
The updated OpenStack 17 also boasts dynamic resource allocation to support “lighter” deployments. These are implementations, such as for edge calculationdoes not require many services.
While the new RHOP will appeal mainly to the telecommunications sector, it remains a solid foundation for other use cases. These include private clouds, public clouds, and edge deployments. Indeed, anyone who wants control of their own cloud rather than trusting their services to one of the super cloud companies, such as Amazon Web Services, Azure, or Google Cloud, should consider RHOP.
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