OpenStack services in Beryllium
The DT Cloud Services Beryllium release is a platform based on the KVM hypervisor, Ubuntu operating system and OpenStack cloud management system. DT Cloud Services Beryllium is based on the OpenStack Ocata version with Juniper Contrail 4.1 as SDN controller.
Openstack services
OpenStack provides a cloud computing platform with a variety of services. Each service offers an application programming interface (API) that facilitates this integration.
Table 1 lists OpenStack services and their availability in the DT Cloud Services Beryllium deployment.
Service | Name | Available | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
Core Services | |||
Keystone | Yes | Provides an authentication and authorization service for other OpenStack services. | |
Image Service | Glance | Yes | Stores and retrieves virtual machine disk images. |
Compute | Nova | Yes | Manages the lifecycle of compute instances in an OpenStack environment. Responsibilities include spawning, scheduling and decommissioning of virtual machines on demand. |
Networking | Neutron | Yes | Enables network connectivity as a service for other OpenStack services, such as OpenStack Compute. |
FWaaS | Neutron/FWaaS | No | FWaaS (FireWall-as-a-Service) is Neutron extension that introduces firewall feature set. |
LBaaS | Neutron/LBaaS | No | LBaaS (Load-Balancing-as-a-Service) is currently an advanced service of Neutron. It allows for proprietary and open-source load balancing technologies to drive the actual load balancing of requests. Instead of Neutron-based load balancing, DT Cloud Services Beryllium offers load balancing based on ECMP as a feature of Contrail SDN. More details can be found in the chapter Load balancing. |
Storage | |||
Object Storage | CEPH | Yes | Stores and retrieves arbitrary unstructured data objects via a RESTful, HTTP based API. Supported S3 and Swift interfaces. |
Block Storage | CEPH / Cinder | Yes | Provides persistent block storage to running instances. |
File System Service | Manila | No | Provides coordinated access to shared or distributed file systems. |
Shared Services | |||
Dashboard | Horizon | Yes | Provides a web-based self-service portal to interact with underlying OpenStack services, such as launching an instance, assigning IP addresses and configuring access controls. |
Telemetry | Ceilometer | No | Monitors and meters the OpenStack cloud for billing, benchmarking, scalability, and statistical purposes. |
Higher-level services | |||
Orchestration | Heat |
Yes
| Orchestrates multiple composite cloud applications. |
Database Service | Trove | No | Provides scalable and reliable Cloud Database-as-a-Service functionality for both relational and non-relational database engines. |
Messaging Service | Zaqar | No | Multi-tenant cloud messaging service for web and mobile developers. |
Key Management | Barbican | No | REST API designed for the secure storage, provisioning and management of secrets such as passwords, encryption keys and X.509 Certificates. |
Governance | Congress | No | Provides policy as a service across any collection of cloud services in order to offer governance and compliance for dynamic infrastructures. |
Elastic Map Reduce | Sahara | No | Provisions a data-intensive application cluster (Hadoop or Spark) on top of OpenStack. |
Containers | Magnum | No | Making container orchestration engines such as Docker and Kubernetes available in OpenStack. Instead of Magnum, DT Cloud Services Cloud offers it’s own kubernetes-based managed platform. For more details about DT Cloud Services’s Container as a Service contact commercial.support@pan-net.cloud. |
Bare-Metal Provisioning | Ironic | No | Provisions bare metal machines instead of virtual machines. |
DNS Service | Designate | No | Provides DNSaaS services for OpenStack. |
Application Catalog | Murano | No | Introduces an application catalog to OpenStack. |
Table 1: OpenStack services available in DT Cloud Services Beryllium deployment
Additional functionality
Additional functionality to OpenStack services is listed in Table 2.
Name | Available | Description |
|---|---|---|
Inter-tenant/project communication | Yes | Inter-tenant/project communication is implemented using semi-public addressing in Contrail. |
Access to OpenStack API from within tenant/project | Yes | Access to OpenStack API from within tenant/project communication is implemented using https over the proxy. |
Access to SOA BP | Yes | Access is enabled using IPsec tunnel via proxy. |
SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) Server | No | It must be installed by the project. |
NTP Server | Yes | For applications in Tenant OAM VPN: NTP1: 10.235.9.253 NTP2: 10.235.9.254 |
Table 2: Additional functionalities available in DT Cloud Services Beryllium deployment