OpenStack Wallaby Extends Open-Source Cloud Infrastructure The open-source cloud infrastructure project continues to benefit from a high volume of contributors as the new Wallaby release improves compute, networking and security.
The open-source
OpenStack cloud platform issued its Wallaby milestone release on April 14, bringing with it a host of updates for cloud infrastructure operators.
OpenStack Wallaby is the 23rd release of the
open-source cloud platform that began as joint effort between NASA and Rackspace in 2010 and has grown its membership and contributions over the past decade. Wallaby is the first release of OpenStack in 2021; it follows the
OpenStack Victoria update that was released in October 2020.
Now, Mirantis has announced enhancements to its Mirantis Cloud Native Platform in its Mirantis Container Cloud, which enables you to deploy, scale, and update private clouds on Kubernetes. Building on this foundation, Mirantis has released Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes a containerized edition of the open-source infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud.
With it, you can do such things as enable Kubernetes to directly attach to OpenStack Cinder hosted volumes, use OpenStack Keystone as an authorization and authentication backend, or connect to OpenStack Neutron as a network overlay with OpenStack Kuryr. Or, you could use OpenStack cloud to share the same network overlay as a Kubernetes cluster with Neutron drivers for network management tools such as Calico.