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OpenStack Cloud Security

By : Fabio Alessandro Locati
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OpenStack Cloud Security

By: Fabio Alessandro Locati

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (14 chapters)
OpenStack Cloud Security
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Future components


Since the OpenStack community is increasing its size very quickly, the OpenStack Technical Committee has created a procedure to accept new components as part of OpenStack.

To grant maximum safety and code-continuity, it has been decided that the new components have to pass a given time in incubation. In this period, the component has to show a few releases as if they were already parts of OpenStack before they can be promoted to official components. This makes the incubation process pretty long but you can be assured that only high quality components are allowed to be officially part of OpenStack.

Due to this long process, we already know that some components that will soon become part of OpenStack. The following components are being considered to be part of the next release (Kilo) and some of them will very likely be integrated. These components are explained next.

Ironic – bare metal provisioning

The ironic goal is to provide the same interface that is used to create virtual...