14 DAY TRIAL // After launching the final release of the Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) operating system for Desktops, Canonical also announced today, October 13, 2016, the availability of the Server edition.
Using the same internals as Ubuntu 16.10 Desktop, the Server variant of the Yakkety Yak release includes the latest OpenStack release, Newton, which consists of OpenStack Identity - Keystone, OpenStack Imaging - Glance, OpenStack Block Storage - Cinder, OpenStack Compute - Nova, and OpenStack Networking - Neutron components.
Moreover, OpenStack Newton contains OpenStack Telemetry - Ceilometer and Aodh, OpenStack Orchestration - Heat, OpenStack Dashboard - Horizon, OpenStack Object Storage - Swift, OpenStack Database as a Service - Trove, OpenStack DNS - Designate, OpenStack Bare-metal - Ironic, OpenStack Filesystem - Manila, and OpenStack Key Manager - Barbican.
The OpenStack Newton release in Ubuntu 16.10 comes with a warning, "Upgrading an OpenStack deployment is a non-trivial process and care should be taken to plan and test upgrade procedures which will be specific to each OpenStack deployment," said Canonical, and it's also available for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS users via Ubuntu Cloud Archive.
"The world’s fastest hypervisor, LXD, and the world’s best cloud operating system, Ubuntu, together with the latest OpenStack and Kubernetes make for the world’s fastest and best private cloud infrastructure” said Mark Shuttleworth in the announcement. "Our focus is to enable true hybrid cloud operations, and this release further enhances the tools and platform that most companies depend on to operate effectively across all major public clouds and in one’s own data center, from bare metal to cloud container."
LXD 2.4.1 supports AppArmor profile stacking
Other novelties included in the Ubuntu 16.10 Server release are LXD 2.4.1 pure-container hypervisor with support for AppArmor profile stacking and new network management features, libvirt 2.1 virtualization API, Open vSwitch 2.6 multilayer virtual switch, as well as QEMU 2.6.1 virtualization software with a backport to enable GPU Passthru for PowerPC 64 Little Endian (PPC64le) platforms.
Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) 16.07 set of data plane libraries and network interface controller drivers for fast packet processing are also included in Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) Server operating system, which we remind you that ships with the latest Linux 4.8 kernel.
Ubuntu 16.10 Server and Ubuntu 16.10 Cloud Server editions are now available for download via our website for 64- and 32-bit architectures.