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Release Notes; v3.1-grizzly
v3.1-grizzly
New Features in Fuel 3.1
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- Combined Fuel library and Fuel Web products
- Option to deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux® OpenStack® Platform
- Mirantis OpenStack Health Check
- Ability to deploy properly in networks that are not utilizing VLAN tagging
- Integrated ability to connect to remote nodes via SSH
- Improved High Availability resiliency
Fuel 3.1 with Integrated graphical and command line controls
In earlier releases, Fuel was distributed as two packages – “Fuel Web” for graphical workflow, and “Fuel library” for command-line based manipulation. Starting with this 3.1 release, we’ve integrated these two capabilities into a single offering, referred to simply as Fuel. If you used Fuel Web, you’ll see that capability along with its latest improvements to that capability in the the Fuel User Interface (UI), providing a streamlined, graphical console that enables a point-and-click experience for the most commonly deployed configurations. Advanced users with more complex environmental needs can still get command-line access to the underlying deployment engine (aka “Fuel Library”).
Option to deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux® OpenStack® Platform
Mirantis Fuel now includes the ability to deploy the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform (a solution that includes both Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the Red Hat OpenStack distribution). During the definition of a new environment, the user will be presented with the option of either installing the Mirantis provided OpenStack distribution onto CentOS powered nodes or installing the Red Hat provided OpenStack distribution onto Red Hat Enterprise Linux powered nodes.
Note
A Red Hat subscription is required to download and deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform.
Mirantis OpenStack Health Check
New in this release is the Mirantis OpenStack Health Check which can be accessed through a tab in the Fuel UI. The OpenStack HealthCheck is a battery of tests that can be run against an OpenStack deployment to ensure that it is installed properly and operating correctly. The suite of tests exercise not only the core components within OpenStack, but also the added packages included in the Mirantis OpenStack distribution. Tests can be run individually or in groups. A full list of available tests can be found in the documentation.
Ability to deploy properly in networks that are not utilizing VLAN tagging
In some environments, it may not be possible or desired to utilize VLANs to segregate network traffic. In these networks, Fuel can now be configured through the Fuel UI to disable the need for VLAN tagging. This configuration option is available through the Network Settings tab.
Integrated ability to connect to remote nodes via SSH
The ability to connect to a remote node via SSH is now available from the machine details screen. SSH key management is automatically handled by Fuel, so the user need only click on she SSH Console button to connect.
Improved High Availability resiliency
To improve the resiliency of the Mirantis OpenStack High Availability reference architecture, Fuel now deploys all HA services under Pacemaker, a scalable cluster resource manager developed by Clusterlabs. Additional options in the Fuel Library have also been added to Corosync to enable more granular tuning.