Source of the news: https://tectonic.com/blog/announcing-stackanetes-technical-preview.html
During OpenStack Summit Austin, we partnered with Intel in an initiative aiming to automate and orchestrate the deployment and management of OpenStack with Kubernetes. Today, we are pleased to announce a technical preview of the project affectionately called “Stackanetes”, available with the latest OpenStack release, “Newton”. This tech preview of OpenStack on Kubernetes provides high availability with simple scaling and control plane self-healing, virtual machine live migration, and the full complement of OpenStack IaaS features – deployed, managed, and scaled with Kubernetes automation. With today’s preview, you can deploy OpenStack on Kubernetes in 15 minutes with a single kpm command.
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Along with the ability to deploy, monitor, and manage the OpenStack control and compute planes with Kubernetes orchestration, this preview release also demonstrates the powerful modularity of the Kubernetes container runtime interface. The rkt container engine, an alternative to the default node container manager in Kubernetes, can now run the entire OpenStack deployment, including the Nova libvirt driver and the Neutron/Open vSwitch network agents. Rkt’s pluggable isolation offers a choice of execution mechanisms, ranging from standard software container isolation to full VM protection of container workloads, that is especially interesting in an OpenStack context.
Simplifying OpenStack deployment and management
OpenStack has a reputation for complexity that can sometimes rival its power. Kubernetes cluster orchestration makes OpenStack much easier to deploy and manage. OpenStack is composed of several stateless applications that communicate to provide services – a familiar model in the world of microservices that Kubernetes and containers call home. Of course, OpenStack also relies on a set of stateful data stores that underpin those services. The Stackanetes work demonstrates these applications can also be deployed, scaled, and managed by Kubernetes.
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