OpenStack and Fedora

OpenStack is a widely supported, open source suite of components for provisioning public and private IaaS cloud platforms.  The latest release, Essex, is available for both Fedora 16 (as a preview) and Fedora 17. With OpenStack and Fedora, you'll find:

• Nova: A service to manage virtual machines, including stopping, starting, and live migration.  Fedora support for libguestfs increases the variety of virtual machineimage formats you can manipulate.


• Glance: A virtual machine image registration service, providing a REST interface to image caching and tretrieval.


• Swift: An object storage service akin to Amazon's S3 service.


• Quantum: A virtual networking service with a REST interface and pluggable back-ends. The Essex release supports Open vSwitch, Linux bridging, and a variety of virtual networking controller technologies.

Additional features:

•      An included dashboard self-service and administration UI


•      Open vSwitch available for use by Quantum (this line may be redundant with above?)


•      Simplified dependencies with Qpid as the messaging transport


•      Upstream-supported libguestfs integration


•      Optimized handling of VM images to minimize time and disk space used


•      KVM support for booting from ISOs and better control over disk images


•      Separate admin and volume APIs in Nova


•      Optimized image transfer and progress info with Glance

Additional details about using OpenStack with Fedora:
fedoraproject.org/wiki/OpenStack

Learn more about Fedora:
join.fedoraproject.org

Get involved with the Fedora Cloud Special Interest Group:
fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cloud_SIG