Key features

In this section, we will see some of the key features of Kolla.

Highly available deployment

The OpenStack ecosystem consists of multiple services running only a single instance of them, which sometimes becomes the single point of failure in case of any disaster, and it can't scale beyond a single instance. To make it scalable, Kolla deploys the OpenStack cloud, configured with HA. So even if any service fails, it can scale without any interruption to the current operations. This feature makes Kolla an ideal solution for easy upgrade and scale without any downtime.

Ceph support

Kolla uses Ceph to add persistent data to the VMs running our OpenStack environment, so that we can easily recover from any disaster, hence making the OpenStack cloud more reliable. Ceph is also used for storing glance images.

Image building

Kolla provides a tool called kolla-build to build container images on multiple distros such as CentOs, Ubuntu, Debian, and Oracle Linux. Multiple dependent components can...