OpenStack Dashboard in DiabloDevin Carlen, Project Technical Lead

Founder, Nebula, Inc.@devcamcar

Diablo Release Update

Metrics

‣ 17 contributors

‣ 13 blueprints implemented

‣ 41 bugs resolved

Not Just For Compute

‣ No longer just a Nova dashboard

‣ Support for all core and incubated OpenStack projects

‣ Swift

‣ Glance

‣ Keystone

‣ Quantum

System Panel

‣ Improved interfaces for system administrators

‣ Manage quotas, flavors, tenants and users

‣ See global infrastructure overviews

‣ Manage Keystone service catalog to enable or disable services and view service status

‣ Plugin to common monitoring systems such as Ganglia and Munin

EC2 API Migration

‣ Migrated to OpenStack API

‣ Can support features as they happen

‣ Vastly improves security model and performance

‣ Removes requirement to use the EC2 admin API to masquerade as another tenant

Updated Look and Feel

‣ Support for other core projects made necessary fundamental design changes

‣ Side bar plugins

‣ Better experience for users with multiple tenants

Essex Roadmap

OpenStack Core

‣ As of the Essex cycle, the OpenStack Dashboard is now a core project

‣ Tons of support from the community

‣ Shared understanding that having an official user interface is critical for adoption

Focus on User Interaction and Experience

‣ Create a Human Interaction Guideline (HIG) document

‣ Map flows and interactions from the user’s point of view

‣ Focus on reducing sharp edges

‣ Deliver a world class web experience

Pluggable Architecture

‣ Enable anyone to add support for a third party service or feature

‣ Provide a clear path for community projects to add support by following HIG

‣ Such as Red Dwarf, Atlas, Donabe, etc.

New Nova Features

‣ Boot from volume

‣ Live migrations

‣ View instance power state

‣ Pause and suspend guests

‣ Configuration drive

New Swift Features

‣ Support for hierarchical psuedo-folders for a more natural user flow

‣ Client side Swift API for streaming files directly to the Swift endpoint

Just the beginning…

‣ Feedback, features, requests, comments welcome!

‣ Help the OpenStack Dashboard have a fantastic Essex release!

‣ Special thanks to my team at Nebula, Rackspace Cloud Builders, Citrix, Nicira, Cisco, and many others…