At the Essex conference summit this past month, we presented a session on OpenStack Essex architecture. As a part of that workshop we visually demonstrated the request flow for provisioning a VM and went over Essex arthicture. There was a lot of interest in this material; it’s now posted in Slideshare:
In fact, we’ve packaged up the architecture survey/overview as part of our 2-day Bootcamp for OpenStack. The next session is scheduled 14-15 June. This time around will carry out the training at the Santa Clara CA offices of our friends at Nexenta. Last course was delivered at our Mountain View office right before the OpenStack summit in April to a sold out crowd. You can find more information about the course at www.mirantis.com/training
The first formal meetup of the Indian OpenStack User Group was held in Bangalore last weekend on the 5th of May. The event was attended by 25 enthusiastic InStackers.
Govind did a presentation on Cloud and IaaS and emerging technologies. The presentation was informative and the users started a discussion about what the cloud was and where to employ it. This set up the ground for the next presentation by Deepak.
Deepak discussed the architecture of OpenStack with particular attention to Nova. The users showed a lot of interest and asked a lot of questions with regards to understanding the underlying architecture of OpenStack.
Kavit discussed OpenStack Swift’s architecture and the various options available to monitor a Swift installation. The talk was very open with most of the time spent with user questions and scenarios they raised. The users also discussed the possibility of doing a live demo or setup of OpenStack at the next meet up. The meetup lasted around 3 hours.
The Project Policy Board made important decisions regarding 3rd party APIs and Cinder (formerly known as Nova Volume):
third party apis are not part of openstack core, and we focus on building a strong ecosystem where these apis could exist as proxies or external plugins. It is up to deployers to decide which ecosystem projects to include in their distributions (jbryce, 20:06:25)
VOTE: an member:openstack project will support an official API in it’s core implementation (the member:openstack API). other APIs will be implemented external to core. the core project will expose stable, complete, performant interfaces so that 3rd party APIs can be implemented in a complete and performant manner. 3rd party APIs will not have an official member:OpenStack blessing, but we may provide some (jbryce, 20:34:27)
VOTE: an OpenStack project will support an official API in it’s core implementation (the OpenStack API). other APIs will be implemented external to core. the core project will expose stable, complete, performant interfaces so that 3rd party APIs can be implemented in a complete and performant manner. (jbryce, 20:37:36)
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Location of Visits to OpenStack Forums from Feb 1st to May 1st 2012
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Translating docs and manuals is increasing in priority; the team needs help defining the process and choose tools http://wiki.openstack.org/Translations
This week’s chart shows the geographical dispersion of participants to Folsom series of events in San Francisco. The information is derived from the work address provided by participants when they registered. Participants from USA were the large majority, around 70% of the over 1,000 participants, nonetheless it’s interesting to look at the distribution once the outlier is removed.
Participants to Folsom Design Summit and Conference, per nation (excluding USA)
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And today marks the end of this full week of meetings, panels, formal and informal chats, parties, networking and lots of fun. The final count of registered people went well over 1,000! This calls for a celebration to this great community.
Remember to publish your slides on Slideshare OpenStack Group and stay tuned for the videos of the conference. Thank you all for participating, see you all soon.
The OpenStack Conference started with incredible keynotes this morning. All sessions are recorded and videos will be published soon. Meanwhile, the slides provided by the speakers are shared on SlideShare OpenStack group.
Highlights of first day
packed room for opening session at #openstack conference with @jbryce
Radio Free Asia brings freedom of press to closed societies using #OpenStack
Mark Interrante and John Engates live demoing Rackspace Cloud Servers powered by #OpenStack
Live deployment of #OpenStack by Mark Shuttleworth on stage
Kurt Garloff, VP Engineering at DBU Cloud Services in Deutsche Telekom talking about his Linux experience and parallels
Biri Singh explains HP Cloud Services powered by #OpenStack
Chris Kemp on stage thanking leaders of #OpenStack and recognizing ecosystem
“Vish Ashaya hosting a panel of block storage experts at #openstack including #Ceph's Tommi Vaartinen”
Over 400 participant, more than 50 sessions today (over 150 in total). Not just developers in the rooms I’ve seen lots of users involved in the sessions, asking questions and giving suggestions. Many discussisions revolve around real life problems and provide extremely concrete solutions. There is the feeling that the OpenStack community is maturing.
Full house for the kickoff
Vish leading the Nova volume session
For some of the participants it was a long car trip
