 Hi, I'm Chris Hodge from the OpenStack Foundation, and I'm excited to share with you Mitaka, the 13th release of OpenStack. OpenStack is a cloud operating system that provides compute, networking, and storage to host all of your applications and services on top of standard hardware. It is a powerful and highly configurable integration engine with a set of core projects that are a foundation for a wealth of applications and services, all freely available and supported by a worldwide development team. In this video, we're going to give you a brief tour of these services and describe some of the new features that you can take advantage of in this release. We begin by logging into the OpenStack dashboard and uploading a Linux image. Once the machine is uploaded, we configure security access rules for SSH, a secure key pair for passwordless login, and an external IP address to attach an instance to. With our security and access rules set up, it's time to launch an instance. With the Mitaka release, the OpenStack dashboard has been refined with a new focus on intuitive workflows. You can work quickly through defining the source image to use, the flavor of the instance, attached networks, and security features. It even simplifies the automatic creation and attachment of block storage volumes to new instances, and the assignment of public IP addresses. Switching over to the curvature interface, we get a dynamic and easy to use visual representation of all of our virtualized compute, storage, and networking resources. One project we're excited about sharing and think you're really going to like is the OpenStack client. The OpenStack client is an all-in-one replacement for the variety of clients that ship with the individual projects. Its user-centered design is influenced by a human interface guideline with core principles of simplicity, consistency, and transparency. In this example, we launch another instance with the OpenStack client, noting its simple imperative structure and clear configuration options. The OpenStack client is a powerful interface for creating, reading, updating, and deleting virtualized resources. It is quickly becoming the preferred replacement for all the other clients, with frequent additions of new features and a plugin model that allows for extensibility to any new project under the OpenStack Big Tent. To finish, we'll demonstrate the ease with which you can automate complex systems using heat, the OpenStack orchestration service. We start by writing a stack template that defines all of the resources we want heat to manage the lifecycle of. In this example, they include a machine image, two networks with subnets and routers, a web server, a database server with attached storage, and two worker nodes. With template in hand, it takes only one command using the OpenStack client to launch the stack, and it's easy to check on its status. Switching back to the curvature interface in the dashboard, we can see the output of this command, a complex and reproducible OpenStack-based application. In the Metaka release, heat now handles dependencies asynchronously, making it much faster at updating and maintaining the resources it manages. Its developers are constantly adding new resources to its ever-growing catalog, and heat is becoming an indispensable service for defining and maintaining project infrastructure. In the OpenStack Metaka release, you can expect a refined user experience, streamlined management, and improved scalability for performance and stability on larger deployments. Thanks for watching, and have a good time with OpenStack.