Since January 2024, we’ve been working hard on our next major release: OpenNebula 7.0 Next Generation. This release focuses on four key priorities:
- DevOps Automation: Streamlining operations through automated deployment of clusters both on-premises and in the cloud.
- AI-driven Operations: Enabling smart operations with features like prediction, optimization, and anomaly detection.
- Hybrid Multi-Cloud: Supporting the scalable operation of thousands of distributed cloud clusters.
- AI & Confidential Computing: Offering advanced virtualization features for on-demand, multi-tenant AI workloads, and confidential computing environments.
To give you a glimpse of what’s coming, we’ve prepared a series of screencasts showcasing some of the exciting new open source software capabilities in this new version.
1. Automated Provisioning of Hybrid Cloud Clusters
The goal is to enable the automatic deployment of a multi-provider cloud-edge infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools. This approach allows for “one-click” execution, deploying infrastructure across multiple bare-metal cloud provider locations in just a few minutes.
The following recording presents a live demo showcasing the automatic provisioning of bare-metal resources in four different locations by three different cloud infrastructure providers:
- Two Scaleway sites: Paris (France) and Warsaw (Poland)
- One AWS site: Frankfurt (Germany)
- One Equinix site: Amsterdam (the Netherlands)
The entire deployment process is completed in less than 15 minutes. The screencast concludes with a demonstration of the distributed execution of a MinIO object store cluster, highlighting the system’s interoperability and efficiency.
2. Intelligent Operation of Cloud-Edge Environments
The goal is to deliver a platform equipped with standardized APIs and methods for the continuous collection of data generated by cloud-edge infrastructure, alongside scalable real-time analytics. Such a platform enables the novel use of AI/ML techniques for the intelligent operation of heterogeneous cloud-edge environments.
The following screencast provides an overview of the architecture of the new OneAIOps component. It highlights its initial functionalities, including the innovative use of AI-driven metrics predictions, and its CLI and SDK, which allow for the creation of custom modules incorporating AI/ML models.
3. Scalability, Interoperability, and Portability in the Multi-Provider Cloud-Edge Continuum
As part of the IPCEI-CIS, and in collaboration with nine partner companies (Arsys, BIT, Gdańsk University of Technology, Infobip, IONOS, Kontron, IKERLAN/Mondragón, Oktawave, and Secunet), we have developed an infrastructure testbed to demonstrate OpenNebula’s new capabilities for scalability, portability, and interoperability across a multi-provider cloud-edge continuum. This testbed features resources distributed across nine cloud providers in six EU Member States: Croatia, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, and Spain.
This testbed has been built under the IPCEI-CIS virt8ra Cluster, a working group coordinated by OpenNebula Systems that unites 33 companies interested in jointly developing an integrated platform for Cloud-Edge Virtualization Management and Orchestration, serving as a truly vendor-neutral solution.
The following screencast highlights:
- Interoperability: Showcasing a single control panel that manages distributed resources, virtual machines, and Kubernetes clusters across multiple cloud providers.
- Portability: Demonstrating how applications can run seamlessly on any provider without the need for conversion, and be migrated between providers with minimal downtime.
- Integration: Including resources from US-based providers such as AWS and Equinix in the EU, showcasing the migration of workloads from these providers to EU-based providers.
- Scalability: Deploying over thousands of virtual nodes on top of the aggregated infrastructure from a single pane of glass.
This demonstration shows the robustness and versatility of the testbed in enabling a scalable and vendor-neutral cloud-edge continuum.
OpenNebula 7.0 Next Generation is an initiative under development as part of the IPCEI-CIS ONEnextgen project led by OpenNebula Systems.
Funded by the Spanish Ministry for Digital Transformation and Civil Service through the ONEnextgen Project (UNICO IPCEI-2023-003), and co-funded by the European Union’s NextGenerationEU through the RRF.
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