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Of all the open source technologies, Openstack is probably the most controversial. It has been 8 years since the first version of OpenStack was officially released in October 2010. During this period, some people choose to "enter", some choose to "go out", while others choose to "go in and out".

In the early days of Openstack, because of its more openness and flexibility, it was followed by many enterprises to build and manage cloud computing systems. Since about 2014, OpenStack has entered the heyday of concept speculation. At that time, even small and medium-sized enterprises wanted to transform themselves in the cloud with the help of OpenStack. In 2016, OpenStack hit rock bottom with the withdrawal of companies such as IBM, HPE and Cisco. But interestingly, IBM bought Red Hat for a "sky-high price" of $34 billion in 2018, and Red Hat is the biggest supporter of Openstack. Obviously, IBM has achieved a "second regression" in the OpenStack market.

So, for users who want to use OpenStack to build a cloud platform, is OpenStack "cold" or "hot"? The news that OS will be upgraded to R version will undoubtedly give skeptics "a reassurance"!

Correct the name of OpenStack, wave sea of clouds OS upgrade again!

"to implement the open source road to the end, Chaochao will unswervingly support OpenStack. In order to enhance the supporting capacity of cloud services, OS is iterating the product based on the version of Rocky, and a new version is expected early next year."

Liu Xiaoxin, deputy general manager of Tide Cloud Computing products Department, said that Cloud Sea OS is a solution for IaaS cloud platform, which is built with OpenStack as the core, including virtualization at the bottom and cloud management platform at the upper level, which is a whole.

Liu Xiaoxin, Deputy General Manager of Tide Cloud Computing products Department

It has been 8 years since OS started from version 1. 0. Since 2015, the wave began to take OpenStack as the core framework, during which several versions have been iterated, and the maturity of the product is getting better and better. Early next year, Chaochao will upgrade to R version, which is also the promotion of the most important version of OS.

The Rocky version of OpenStack was officially released in September this year, and the Rocky version became the "new coordinate" of OpenStack at the OpenStack Berlin summit in November. As an early open source cloud computing management platform project, the advantages of OpenStack are open source and open, but the disadvantages are also very obvious, such as: open source capabilities are limited to the software itself, lack of large-scale cluster management capabilities, lack of new technology compatibility and so on. OpenStack is pinning its hopes on the latest release of Rocky, adding compatibility with emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, edge computing and software containers.

After 8 years of growth, OpenStack is transforming and will occupy new highlands with a more open attitude in the future. Open source is not only reflected in the OpenStack itself, but also should include computing, storage, networking and other infrastructure levels.

The original mind does not change, the user demand makes the tide have a special fondness for OpenStack

To create a more open infrastructure capability, the wave will continue to deepen the application scenario of OpenStack in the enterprise. At this point, some people may ask: why does Chaochao have a soft spot for OpenStack and never give up?

In fact, there is only one reason, and that is that OpenStack is the best cloud architecture platform that has been proven by a lot of practices. Especially in the Chinese market, if you do not choose Aliyun, Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and other existing cloud platforms, OpenStack is the only way for traditional IT to travel to the cloud. Although Docker, Kubernetes and other technologies are popular, they are not a substitute for OpenStack.

In addition, with the continuous iteration of the new version of OpenStack, various capabilities are also increasing. Take the large-scale project of Wave Media Cloud as an example, which has reached a maximum of 1,500 points, thanks to the functional features of the OpenStack architecture itself. The control plane of OpenStack can be segmented, can be flexibly deployed in the form of components, and constantly optimized. Through the isolation of the components in the control plane and the optimization and segmentation of the database, the tide cloud sea OS can make the whole system operate efficiently, and then support the scale of thousands of nodes in a single cluster.

So, only in terms of architecture, OpenStack is the best choice. As defined by Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director of the OpenStack Foundation, the Open Infrastructure open architecture allows cloud computing to have a converged enterprise application environment from the beginning of the infrastructure.

Let the world run on OpenStack, wave sea of clouds OS upgraded version of high user value highlights

The question is, what are the highlights of OS after upgrading to the Rocky version?

To sum up, there are three characteristics:

First, integrate with AI. From the perspective of the underlying computing equipment of artificial intelligence, in the original environment, AI is AI and cloud is cloud. In the future, it is a general trend to integrate AI equipment, resources and facilities into the cloud environment. Therefore, after the upgrade, the integration of cloud and AI will be closer. Tide hopes to put acceleration devices such as GPU, FPGA and SoC accelerators as resources on the cloud platform for unified management. Now, a lot of AI apps are running on containers, and the tide has been integrated with Kubernetes since the release of Cloud OS 5.5. Cloud Sea OS can manage virtual machines as well as container applications. In addition, Sea of Cloud OS can make AI simpler and more streamlined. Let AI applications consume computing resources, and Cloud OS will be further integrated with this software, simplifying the process for AI users to consume AI resources.

Second, enhance the ability of multi-cloud management. The architecture of Cloud Sea OS is virtualization at the bottom, cloud platform in the middle, and a cloud management platform CMP at the top. Cloud management platform, which has the longest development cycle, is called InCloud Manager, is a heterogeneous or cross-cloud, multi-cloud management platform, the core competence is to manage OpenStack, Vmware and other virtualization platforms. In the iteration of the new version, this part of the capability will be strengthened, such as unified management, unified monitoring, operation and maintenance and other hybrid cloud management capabilities, as well as the migration between different clouds, the opening of networks, and so on.

OpenStack's cloud platform is more suitable for a single cloud and is relatively pure. However, if there are many heterogeneous points in the customer's scenario, or if there is a "multi-center" and unified management is needed, CMP is required. For example, if a customer has a center in Beijing and Tianjin, and a center in Xi'an, he has to go to InCloud Manager, not just an OpenStack.

Third, provide bare metal cloud support. In the past two years, bare metal cloud sales are very good, domestic major public cloud manufacturers have launched bare metal products, bare metal has become an indispensable part. This shows that bare metal cloud has its specific usage scenarios, such as database applications with high performance requirements, as well as some business related to big data. In the future, some AI applications will also involve the basic management of bare metal. In many large business systems, virtual machines account for the highest proportion, the growth momentum of containers is relatively fast, while bare metal is relatively stable. In other words, the demand for bare metal will not go away, and bare metal, virtual machines and containers will all coexist in the next five to ten years.

In the future, users can see the setting scheme of bare metal OS from the Rocky version of Cloud Sea BIOS. The R version strengthens the stability and does the related work to get through the virtual machine and bare metal.

Of course, Cloud Sea OS upgrade version of the highlights, in addition to AI, multi-cloud management, bare metal architecture support outstanding performance, in large-scale cluster management capabilities, will also be further strengthened.

Therefore, from the perspective of the upgrading of OS, OpenStack is not going downhill, but has been in a mature and stable period. From the beginning of its birth, OpenStack has set an ultimate goal for itself, "to make the world run on OpenStack". It is believed that under the promotion of the enterprises represented by the tide, OpenStack will really become the cornerstone of the cloud in all major enterprises.

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