December 2014 OpenStack Infrastructure User Manual Sprint
During this week the Infrastructure team released a significant milestone for the Infrastructure User Manual. The manual consolidates documentation for Developers, Core Reviewers and Project Drivers, which was spread across wiki pages, project-specific documentation files and general institutional knowledge. The manual is starting to look great and a lot of wiki pages have been declared obsolete meanwhile.
Third-party CI account creation is now self-serve
This means that new third-party account will need to follow a new, leaner process. There are some changes for existing accounts. Read the full announcement.
My Key Learning from Paris
Matt Fischer “learned a bunch of things in Paris: French food is amazing, always upgrade OVS” and “All operators have the same problems.” The result of his and others’ realization is the beginnings of an Operations Project.
Relevant Conversations
- Nova Specs for Kilo
- Three Flavours of Infrastructure Cloud
- Studying Midcycle Sprints and Meetings
- Proposal for Neutron core and vendor code decomposition
- change to Oslo release process to support stable branch requirement caps
Deadlines and Development Priorities
- Neutron Spec Proposal Deadline (SPD): Monday 12-8-2014
- Neutron Spec Approval Deadline (SAD): Monday 12-15-2014
- [nova] Kilo Project Priorities
- Neutron Priorities for Kilo
Stable Release
Tips ‘n Tricks
- By Craige McWhirter: Managing KVM Console Logs for Nova
- By Arx Cruz: OpenStack 3rd Party CI – Part I and Part II – Puppetboard and Part III – Configuring your puppet recipes and Deleting OpenStack Instances directly from database and Ubuntu cloud image password and One controller to rule them all
- By Oleg Gelbukh: Pumphouse Deep Dive, Part 1
- By Maish Saidel-Keesing: Landing your first OpenStack Contribution
Reports from Previous Events
- BootstrappingHour: Authentication Flows in OpenStack
Upcoming Events
- Dec 09 – 11, 2014 Bitex 2014 Bahrain, BH
- Dec 09, 2014 PaaS with OpenStack Paris, FR
- Dec 09, 2014 Stockholm OpenStack Meetup Stockholm, Sweden
- Dec 09 – 11, 2014 Bitex 2014 Bahrain, BH
- Dec 10, 2014 Accelerating SDN Applications Mountain View, CA, US
- Dec 10, 2014 Open Source Cloud Day Mechelen, Antwerp, BE
- Dec 11 – 12, 2014 Okinawa Open Days 2014 Naha, Okinawa, JP
- Dec 17, 2014 Building Cloud with OpenStack Islamabad, PK
- Dec 18, 2014 Is OpenStack ready for Enterprises? New York, New York, US
- Jan 15, 2015 Deep Dive into Trove Austin, Texas, US
- Feb 19 – 20, 2015 World Techies Forum Mumbai, Maharashtra, IN
- Apr 13 – 14, 2015 OpenStack Live Santa Clara, CA, US
- May 18 – 22, 2015 OpenStack Summit May 2015 Vancouver, BC
- Sep 17, 2015 OpenStack Benelux Conference 2015 Bussum, NL
Other News
- What’s Up, Doc? Nov 19, 2014
- PKI Tokens Don’t Give Better Security
- Who are the OpenStack Ambassadors?
- MySQL and OpenStack deep dive: Dec. 10 webinar
- OpenStack Project Meeting: Summary and full logs.
Got Answers?
Ask OpenStack is the go-to destination for OpenStack users. Interesting questions waiting for answers:
- How to make the fips used for dvr l3 routing on the compute nodes be persistent on boot?
- How to restrict incoming http requests to VM using load balancer?
- Setup IceHouse with ZeroMQ
Welcome New Reviewers and Developers
OpenStack Reactions
Starting a VM on my newly deployed OpenStack cloud
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