Despite What VMware Says, Not Everyone Wants to Deploy Containers in VMs

For its 18th code release, issued today, the OpenStack community is making the software easier to deploy on bare metal. The release, named “Rocky,” takes advantage of the way physical servers are managed to make it as fast and easy to deploy OpenStack on physical servers as in virtual machines (VMs).Jonathan Bryce, executive director with the OpenStack Foundation, said, “We see an environment where people want the right building blocks and to be able to pick a physical server or a VM and have the ability to manage it all in a single platform.” Many enterprises are starting to deploy containers directly onto bare metal in addition to VMs. OpenStack’s sub-project Ironic is used for provisioning workloads onto bare metal servers — servers that don’t come with a particular operating system pre-loaded. Ironic is one of the fastest growing OpenStack projects.