Summer of OpenStack: the diablo-3 milestone

No rest for the OpenStack developers, today saw the release of the July development efforts for Nova and Glance: the Diablo-3 milestone.

Glance gained two performance options: API servers can now cache image data on the local filesystem, and a delayed delete feature allows image deletion to happen asynchronously.

With a bit more than 100 trunk commits over the month, Nova gained support for multiple NICs, FlatDHCP network mode now support a high-availability option (read more about it here), instances can be migrated and system usage notifications were added to the notification framework. Network code was also refactored in order to facilitate integration with the new networking projects, and countless fixes were made in OpenStack API 1.1 support.

We have one more milestone left (diablo-4) before the final 2011.3 release... still a lot to do !