OpenStack Newton arrives, promising advances in virtualization, bare-metal provisioning and containers

OpenStack has released Newton, the 14th version of the open-source cloud software.The OpenStack Foundation said new features will improve the user experience for container cluster management and networking, as well as scalability and resiliency.It said updates to the Ironic bare-metal provisioning service, Magnum container orchestration cluster manager, and Kuryr container networking project will make it easier to integrate containers, and virtual and physical infrastructure under one control plane.Products and services based on OpenStack Newton would become available "in the coming weeks and months", it said.