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OpenStack: the platform for VMs, containers, and the next big thing Jonathan Bryce, OpenStack Foundation executive director, on the state of the stack heading into OpenStack Silicon Valley, August 26-27. 25 Years of OpenStack—Looking Back From the Future Well, here we are again. It’s 2035, and it’s time for another OpenStack anniversary post. Can you… Read more »

OpenStack and cloud native applications: two peas in a data center pod OpenStack has shown the world that innovation with open technology can happen. Fast. In fact, it can happen at a pace never before seen in the history of the IT industry. Interoperability: DefCore, Refstack and You The OpenStack Foundation has created a set… Read more »

What you need to know about Google joining OpenStack In the search for the next big thing, Google has joined the OpenStack Foundation. The Mountain View, California-based colossus announced July 16 that it has become a corporate sponsor of the Foundation. OpenStack pins down next release name: Mitaka OpenStack’s next release will be called Mitaka… Read more »

Seven habits of highly effective OpenStack contributors If you want to be an awesome OpenStack contributor, there’s a formula for that. So says Adrian Otto, who should know. Otto is a distinguished architect at Rackspace, chairman of the OpenStack containers team, current project team lead (PTL) for Magnum and launched the Solum project back in… Read more »

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 »