Hi team, As we are reaching the final weeks of the Stein cycle, I would like to discuss a little bit about what we've done in Stein and planning for the Train cycle. Stein cycle highlights as putting in [1]: - Searchlight now works with Elasticsearch 5.x - We have released a new vision to make Searchlight a multi-cloud application [2]. Moreover, we did a comparison of our vision and the OpenStack clouds vision - Functional test setup has been improved - Searchlight now can work and be tested with Python 3.7 And for the Train cycle, we would like to accomplish these main goals to fulfill the vision: - Make searchlight work with multiple cloud platforms including multiple OpenStack clouds [6], Azure [9], Google Cloud [10], AWS [11]. - Add support for other OpenStack resources: Tacker [7], Octavia [8] - Deprecate support for Elasticsearch 2.x [5] There is a lot of work to be done so I would continue putting effort to encourage new contributors to Searchlight and explore the values it could bring the world. Let's rock it!!! Yours, [1] https://releases.openstack.org/stein/highlights.html#searchlight-search-serv... [2] https://docs.openstack.org/searchlight/latest/contributor/searchlight-vision... [3] https://docs.openstack.org/searchlight/latest/contributor/vision-reflection.... [4] https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/technical-vision.html [5] https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2004904 [6] https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2004840 [7] https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2004968 [8] https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2004383 [9] https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2004718 [10] https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2004996 [11] https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2004719 -- *Trinh Nguyen* *www.edlab.xyz <https://www.edlab.xyz>*