Kilo is the 11th release of OpenStack since NASA and Rackspace launched it in 2010. OpenStack is a platform that incorporates multiple projects delivering different capabilities. The latest project in the Kilo release is Project Ironic, which brings bare-metal server capabilities to OpenStack.
“Ironic runs as a service and ties into different hardware interfaces to manage bare-metal servers directly,” Jonathan Bryce, executive director of the OpenStack Foundation, told eWEEK.