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Chapter 2. Top New Features
This section provides an overview of the top new features in this release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform.
2.1. RHEL OpenStack Platform Director
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform director is a new deployment and lifecycle management tool for your OpenStack environment. It is based on the TripleO project and provides the following features:
- Deployment Consistency
- The Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform director provides a means to install an OpenStack environment using OpenStack services and API. The method involves using an underlying OpenStack instance to install and then to manage another, usually more complex, OpenStack instance through a set of image building configuration files. The director achieves this using either CLI and GUI interaction. This also involves using OpenStack's Ironic service to provision bare metal machines.In additonal to installation, configuration, and management, the director provides a set automated benchmark and health check during and after installation, and also offers ready-state configuration for RAID, BIOS, and network interfaces.
- Lifecycle Management
- The Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform director provides tools to scale the capacity of your environment. The director can apply updates to the current version of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform environment as well as upgrade to new versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform.The director also integrates with other Red Hat products such as:
- Red Hat Ceph Storage
- Red Hat Satellite 6
- Other Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure products (Red Hat CloudForms and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization)
- Accelerated Releases
- Red Hat aims for new Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform director releases every two months.
- Operational Visibility (Technology Preview)
- The Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform director acts as a central logging tool for your OpenStack environment. This also includes notification alarms for availability and performance monitoring.
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