What is current OpenStack version?

Ussuri, the 21st release of OpenStack, includes improvements in core functionality, automation, cross-cell cold migration, containerized applications and support for new use cases at multiple levels in the stack.

What are different versions of OpenStack?

Releases Summary

Module Version OpenStack Version Codename Community Supported
13.z.y Rocky yes – EOL (2018-08-30)
14.z.y Stein yes – EOL (2019-04-10)
15.z.y Train yes
16.z.y Ussuri yes

Is OpenStack an OS?

OpenStack is a cloud operating system that controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, all managed and provisioned through APIs with common authentication mechanisms.

What was the first release of OpenStack?

21 October 2010
OpenStack

Original author(s) Rackspace Hosting and NASA
Initial release 21 October 2010
Stable release Yoga / 30 March 2022
Repository opendev.org/openstack
Written in Python

What is Xena in OpenStack?

The OpenStack community today released Xena, the 24th version of the most widely deployed open source cloud infrastructure software.

What is OpenStack Octavia?

Octavia is an open source, operator-scale load balancing solution designed to work with OpenStack. Octavia was borne out of the Neutron LBaaS project, and starting with the Liberty release of OpenStack, Octavia has become the reference implementation for Neutron LBaaS version 2.

Is OpenStack like VMware?

Contrary to VMware, OpenStack is designed to run on regular hardware and supports so-called hyper-converged architecture. In hyper-converged architecture, all nodes are the same and provide control, compute, network and storage services.

Is OpenStack a PaaS?

OpenStack, though designed as an Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform has several PaaS systems that integrate with it.