Features and differences

The following table shows a snapshot of the new features and the difference they made to the last two releases.

OpenStack Project

Kilo

Liberty

Nova
  • Nova scheduler has been improved, and now Kilo is preparing to split it as its own project.
  • NUMA has been completed.
  • The EC2 API has been deprecated and a new Stack Forge project has been introduced to do the EC2 API translation.
  • The v2.1 API layer has been introduced.
  • Cells were introduced. This construct, when used, allows a multiregion style of Nova deployment.
  • NFV: Network Functions Virtualization.
  • Improvement to schedulers has been made. This includes customizable schedulers.
  • v2.1 API has seen substantial modifications.

Swift
  • Support for erasure codes to store large infrequently-used ...

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