Enhanced Resiliency in the new openStack® Newton

Advancements in high availability, adaptability, and self-healing, are very interesting, as they give operators further assurance of stability regardless of workload demands.

 Cinder, Ironic, Neutron and Trove are among the projects that deliver improved high availability functionality. Security improvements are included in Newton as well; for example, Keystone offers upgrades that include PCI compliance and encrypted credentials.  

Cinder adds support for retyping encrypted to unencrypted volumes and vice versa. Additional enhancements in Cinder include micro-version support, the ability to delete volumes with snapshots using the cascading feature, and a backup service that can be scaled to multiple instances.