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Writing Your First OpenStack Application Ever thought about what it takes to write a scalable cloud application using an OpenStack SDK? Thanks to a small team’s heroic effort, there’s now a guide for that! Dive into Zuul – Gated commit system Zuul is software developed by the OpenStack community. It was developed as an efficient… Read more »

New OpenStack component versioning Thierry Carrez explains why the Liberty-1 milestone release has some unfamiliar version numbers for familiar projects. Technical Committee Highlights June 25, 2015 A compute starter kit tag has been approved, it provides a place for a beginner who only wants to try to get a computing cloud use case started. New… Read more »

Built an App on OpenStack at QCon NY 2015 Developers building apps on top of OpenStack get more tutorials to play with. Everett Toews published abstract, slides and code from his talk at QCon in New York on how to get started building and deploying an application on OpenStack. OpenStack Networking with Neutron: What Plugin… Read more »

Five things every contributor should know about the OpenStack docs project New docs contributors may be afraid of moving too fast and breaking things – but don’t worry, you can’t. A simpler markup language and a robust community of experienced, multilingual contributors make it even easier to find what you love and dive right in…. Read more »

Containers and OpenStack: here’s what you need to know Interview with Adrian Otto, a principal architect at Rackspace, is the project technical lead (PTL) for Magnum, an API service developed by the OpenStack containers team for OpenStack to make container management tools such as Docker and Kubernetes available as first-class resources in OpenStack. Magnum officially… Read more »

OpenStack users share how their deployments stack up Some of OpenStack’s founding projects — including Nova, Keystone, Glance, Horizon and Cinder — continue to be the most popular. That may be changing, however. For starters, the inclusion of bare-metal provisioning project Ironic in the integrated release led to an increase across all deployment stages, including… Read more »

Snapshot of the OpenStack community behind Kilo The OpenStack community that helped create the Kilo release has done some seriously heavy lifting. For the 11th release, there were more contributors, more companies involved and more work across time zones than ever before. Heat SoftwareConfig resources – primer/overview. Steve Hardy provides an overview of Heat’s Software… Read more »

Superuser Awards final faceoff: your vote counts Four great finalists, but only one can win: it’s a close call as the voting deadline approaches for this edition of the Superuser Awards. Snapshot of the OpenStack community behind Kilo The OpenStack community that helped create the Kilo release has done some seriously heavy lifting. For the… Read more »