OpenStack Liberty Design Summit

Manila is the shared file system service and is an incubated OpenStack project since the Juno release.  Manila allows tenants to manage shares, e.g., NFS exports, take snapshots, and adjust access rules - among other things.

In this talk, we will present our lessons learned during an evaluation of Manila for use in a telco environment. Deutsche Telekom, NetApp, and SVA have established a joint qualification lab. The solution is using a fully automated open source deployment and testing framework that leverages OpenStack Tempest. Part of this presentation is validation of Manila's applicability for common use cases, its functionality, as well as the maturity of different backend implementations.

Attendees will leave this talk with a clear understanding of Manila, a better understanding of its suitability for real use, and an outlook on Manila's roadmap.