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:

• Recap of the request flow
• Essex architecture survey/overview

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

We were hoping to see a few more people but there were a couple of other tech events on the same day. The venue for the meetup was the terrace of the Jacaranda Block on Brigade Millennium Rd. The venue was provided by Ahimanikya Satapathy from Fresco Informatics. On the agenda were talks by Govind Tatachari, Deepak Garg from Citrix and Kavit Munshi from Aptira.

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.

It was great to see the enthusiasm of all the participants and we look forward to our next meeting.
Photos of the event are here. There is also a Linked In group here.

(thanks to Kavit for this blog post)

HIGHLIGHTS

• Comment on the first draft of OpenStack Foundation’s bylaws http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Foundation/Bylaws
• The mailing list message is on http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/foundation/2012-April/000255.html
• The Project Policy Board made important decisions regarding 3rd party APIs and Cinder (formerly known as Nova Volume):
  1. 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)
  2. 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)
  3. 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)
  4. VOTE: Voted on “above motion?” Results are, 1: 10 (jbryce, 20:41:48)

  Full summary: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2012/openstack-meeting.2012-05-08-20.00.html

• Join the discussion to shape the future of OpenStack International Communities https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack-community/msg00081.html
• Docs seeking javascript gurus to implement “try-it-out” for TryStack.org – https://blueprints.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+spec/api-try-it-out

Upcoming Events

• Australian OpenStack User Group Meeting May 15, 2012 – Melbourne, Australia Details
• OpenStack Israel 2012 May 30, 2012 – Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel Details
• OpenStack in action 2! – Production ready May 31, 2012 – Paris, France Details
• Open Cloud and Public Administration Jun 19, 2012 – Bern, Switzerland Call for papers
• FISL 2013 Jul 25-28 – Porto Alegre,  Brazil http://wiki.openstack.org/FISL13

Other news

• Csscorp published the updated version of OpenStack Beginners Guide and is looking for translators http://cssoss.wordpress.com/2012/05/07/openstack-beginners-guide-v3-0-for-essex-on-ubuntu-12-04-precise-pangolin/
• Are you interested in metering? Help design the public API http://openstack.markmail.org/thread/uvpp4nzjicz4xamw
• More contributed documentation: Install Your Own OpenStack Cloud – Essex Edition http://openstack.markmail.org/thread/uekbca4hr6jcrzxu
• The blueprints for OpenStack Manuals http://blueprints.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals
• Summary of QA Weekly Status meeting http://openstack.markmail.org/thread/cj4pra44ycj2qvaa
• OpenStack Wiki Recent Changes – http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges
• Project meeting summary http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2012/openstack-meeting.2012-05-08-21.01.html

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HIGHLIGHTS

• If you participated to the summit or conference, remember to take the survey https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/openstack-folsom-events
• Most of the videos and slides from April’s conference are on http://vimeo.com/openstack and http://www.slideshare.net/group/openstackcloud
• Comment on the first draft of OpenStack Foundation’s bylaws http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Foundation/Bylaws
• The mailing list message is on http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/foundation/2012-April/000255.html
• New layout for Swift code http://openstack.markmail.org/thread/4xpajxhapi74ofzd
• Debian to include cloud software with Wheezy http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/54497-debian-to-include-cloud-software-with-wheezy
• European cloud project plots OpenStack move http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/cloud/2012/04/30/european-cloud-project-plots-openstack-move-40155129/
• University of Melbourne fires up kit for OpenStack cloud http://www.itnews.com.au/News/298975,university-of-melbourne-fires-up-kit-for-openstack-cloud.aspx
• Piston Cloud Integrates Cloud Foundry PaaS with OpenStack http://www.talkincloud.com/piston-cloud-integrates-cloud-foundry-paas-with-openstack/

Upcoming Events

• OpenStack IU and FutureGrid Users Group May 04, 2012 – Indiana University Details
• OpenStack Israel 2012 May 30, 2012 – Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel Details\
• OpenStack in action 2! – Production ready May 31, 2012 – Paris, France Details
• Open Cloud and Public Administration Jun 19, 2012 – Bern, Switzerland Call for papers
• FISL 2013 Jul 25-28 – Porto Alegre,  Brazil http://wiki.openstack.org/FISL13

Other news

• Reorganising the project’s mailing lists, more thoughts http://openstack.markmail.org/thread/6nisyof2kurcbtvy
• Tempest is a step closer to be integrated with Jenkins http://openstack.markmail.org/thread/rwxtlprnpjx6yg2j
• Going to FISL 13 in Porto Alegre? Help present OpenStack there http://wiki.openstack.org/FISL13
• OpenStack Wiki Recent Changes – http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges
• Project meeting summary http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2012/openstack-meeting.2012-05-01-21.02.html

Community Statistics

This week’s chart shows the source of visits to http://forums.openstack.org from February 1st to May 1st

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Welcome back to our regular publishing schedule. This week we still hear the echo of the Design Summit and Conference.

HIGHLIGHTS

• If you participated to the summit or conference, remember to take the survey https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/openstack-folsom-events
• Notes, reports, post-mortem, comments from participants to last week’s events:
• http://maffulli.net/2012/04/26/back-from-openstack-design-summit-and-conference/
• http://technicae.cogitat.io/2012/04/new-life-openstack-devops-community.html
• http://blog.doughellmann.com/2012/04/notes-from-openstack-folsom-design.html
• http://fnords.wordpress.com/2012/04/25/a-community-maturing/
• http://russellbryantnet.wordpress.com/2012/04/24/openstack-design-summit-and-an-eye-on-folsom/
• http://www.hastexo.com/blogs/florian/2012/04/24/look-back-my-first-openstack-design-summit-conference
• http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/openstack-devel/2012-April/000748.html

Upcoming Events

• OpenStack Korea Community Meet-up May 02, 2012 – Seoul, Korea Details
• OpenStack IU and FutureGrid Users Group May 04, 2012 – Indiana University Details
• OpenStack Israel 2012 May 30, 2012 – Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel Details
• Open Cloud and Public Administration Jun 19, 2012 – Bern, Switzerland Call for papers
• FISL 2013 Jul 25-28 – Porto Alegre,  Brazil http://wiki.openstack.org/FISL13

Other news

• Development of OpenStack Folsom has started
• Translating docs and manuals is increasing in priority; the team needs help defining the process and choose tools http://wiki.openstack.org/Translations
• Going to FISL 13 in Porto Alegre? Help present OpenStack there http://wiki.openstack.org/FISL13
• OpenStack Wiki Recent Changes – http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges
• Project meeting summary http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2012/openstack-meeting.2012-04-24-21.03.html

Community Statistics

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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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.

Upcoming Events

• Rackspace & Dell: OpenStack Summit Review ~ LA Edition Apr 23, 2012 – Los Angeles, CA Registration

• Rackspace & Dell: OpenStack Summit Review ~ Boulder Edition Apr 24, 2012 – Denver, CO Registration

• Rackspace & Dell: OpenStack Summit Review ~ Dallas Edition Apr 25, 2012 – Dallas, TX Registration

• This Calls for Essex-y Party! Apr 26, 2012 – Los Angeles, CA Details

• OpenStack DC Meetup Apr 26, 2012 – Washington, DC Details

• OpenStack Israel 2012 May 30, 2012 – Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel Details

• Open Cloud and Public Administration Jun 19, 2012 – Bern, Switzerland Call for papers

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”

Party time now!

Highlights of the day

• @tcarrez: @OpenStack community maturing: last year at design summit we had “bzr vs. Git”, today we have “making configuration of OpenStack easier”
• Reminder- joint hackathon with core devs from @cloudfoundry and @OpenStack – 6pm tonight in the developer lounge at Hyatt
• Nicira is hiring! Sr Software Engineer to join our #Openstack team. jobvite.com/m?38j2ifwv
• WordPress is the demo for RedDwarf: etherpad.openstack.org/FolsomReddwarf
• OpenStack + Hyper-V – Openness@Microsoft bit.ly/J0MVAE

See what attendees think of the OpenStack Design Summit

chaos monkey strolled through the #OpenStack dev lounge...

• Slides PDF for @swifterdarrell Monitoring #OpenStack Swift With #StatsD talk: swiftstack.com/assets/ (pdf)
• slideshare version of today’s CS+SWIFT integration slideshare.net/
• Openstack Quantum Security Groups Session slideshare.net/
• For anyone looking for the slides the Melange Overview at the #openstack summit, you can find them on slideshare.net/troytoman/

and an announcement: tomorrow’s Cloud Foundry BOSH + Openstack hackathon; 6pm SF Hyatt bit.ly/HVYqFq (food+beer+code included)

Nicira's Dan Wendlandt introductory talk on #OpenStack Quantum is packed!

Darrell giving his talk on statsd + Swift at the #OpenStack Design Summit.

and to finish this great second day

"little" #openstack HP event at the Ferry Building