OpenStack gets support for virtual GPUs and new container features
Summary
As Collier and OpenStack Executive Director Jonathan Bryce noted, until now, most users would opt for running bare-metal servers with GPUs for this, but that comes with its own administrative overhead for setting up these machines.Unsurprisingly, just as in the public cloud space, the various OpenStack groups are also working on making containers a more integral part of the platform.With the Kuryr project, which is also making its debut in this release, OpenStack is also now adding improved support for Kubernetes, the de facto standard for container orchestration.As Collier and Bryce also noted, this new release adds a number of new high-availability features to OpenStack, which is very much in reaction to the needs of the project’s users (which include a lot of telcos and large enterprises that range from eBay to Comcast and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange).Bryce and Collier tell me that they are keeping their eyes open, though, and argue that many of the emerging open-source serverless frameworks already mostly rely on Kubernetes, which is obviously getting the full support of the project anyway.
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