Monthly Archives:: February 2012

Another Step Forward for OpenStack in Production

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Today Mark Interrante, Rackspace’s head of product, announced that the next generation of Rackspace’s Cloud Servers, powered by OpenStack Compute (Nova), is moving from Alpha to Beta for customers.  This is a major endorsement of the continuing maturation of OpenStack and its readiness to be deployed today.  Here are a couple of highlights about this… Read more »

Essex OpenStack Global Hack-In

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Essex is a release focused on improving the integrity of OpenStack, so our first Global Hack-In is right at the start of the release candidate cycle, the start of March, 2012. The event brings together physically developers that spend their days or their nights making OpenStack. http://wiki.openstack.org/OpenStackUsersGroup/EssexGlobalHackIn The event is focused on testing and getting… Read more »

Community Weekly Review (Feb 17-24)

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OpenStack Community Newsletter –February 24, 2012 HIGHLIGHTS OpenStack Governance Elections Spring 2012: Action Item For All Candidates http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/02/openstack-governance-elections-spring-2012-action-item-for-all-candidates/ Nominations close on Monday Announcing StackTach: a little debugging tool to watch the flow of an operation through the various parts of OpenStack https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg07765.html Quantum promoted to core project: it will be part of Folsom release, in… Read more »

OpenStack Governance Elections Spring 2012: Action Item For All Candidates

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The OpenStack community is electing its Project Technical Leads and two members of the Project Policy Board. Details are at http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/02/openstack-governance-elections-spring-2012/. On February 26 the nominations will close and the voting process will start on February 28 and finish on March 3rd. The list of nominees is at http://etherpad.openstack.org/Spring2012-Nominees. It’s still open. You must register… Read more »

Community Weekly Review (Feb 10-17)

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OpenStack Community Newsletter –February 17, 2012 HIGHLIGHTS TryStack.org – A Sandbox for OpenStack is live http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/02/trystack-org-a-sandbox-for-openstack/ The brand new API reference website http://api.openstack.org/ SoftLayer announced its Object Storage product built on OpenStack Swift http://blog.softlayer.com/2012/softlayer-openstack-swift-softlayer-object-storage/ Action needed: OpenStack Governance Elections http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/02/openstack-governance-elections-spring-2012/ Setting up the OpenStack Foundation: video of the meetup in Santa Clara http://www.collierclan.net/mark/?p=425 A draft… Read more »

TryStack.org – A Sandbox for OpenStack!

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Today, a project that has been a long time in the making is finally coming to fruition. Back last summer, when I was working at Rackspace, Nati Ueno from NTT PF Labs came up with the idea of establishing a “Free Cloud” — a site running OpenStack that developers using the OpenStack APIs could use… Read more »

Under the hood of Swift: the Ring

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This is the first post in series that summarizes our analysis of Swift architecture. We’ve tried to highlight some points that are not clear enough in the official documentation. Our primary base was an in-depth look into the source code. The following material applies to version 1.4.6 of Swift. The Ring is the vital part… Read more »