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 »
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OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (May 1 – 8)
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 »
OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Apr 24 – May 1)
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 »
OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Apr 17 – 24)
Why you should attend an OpenStack Summit OpenStack Summits don’t miss a beat – with a schedule full of diverse breakout sessions, captivating speakers, off-the-wall evening events and the occasional surprise, it’s the twice-yearly event you simply cannot miss. What would you add to the list of 10 most memorable summit moments to date? Gnocchi… Read more »
OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Apr 10 – 17)
OpenStack DefCore Community Review – TWO Sessions April 21 (agenda) During the DefCore process, we’ve had regular community check points to review and discuss the latest materials from the committee. With the latest work on the official process and flurry of Guidelines, we’ve got a lot of concrete material to show. To accommodate global participants,… Read more »
OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Apr 3 – 10)
Making your list and checking it twice for the OpenStack Vancouver Summit Emily Hugenbruch shared her pre-summit checklists: great tips there. OVN and OpenStack Integration Development Update The Open vSwitch project announced the OVN effort back in January and Russell Bryant started to look into it. He reports about OVN, calling it “a promising open… Read more »
OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Mar 27 – Apr 3)
Game changer: inside Adobe’s new Marketing Cloud architecture The Adobe Marketing Cloud powers software-as-a-service marketing for outfits such as the Los Angeles Kings, eBags and Verizon Wireless. When the IT infrastructure team in Adobe’s Digital Marketing group realized it was time for an evolutionary revamp, it turned to OpenStack and VMware to up its game…. Read more »
OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Mar 20 – 27)
OpenStack DefCore Process Draft Posted for Review [major milestone] OpenStack DefCore Committee is looking for community feedback about the proposed DefCore Process. March has been a month for OpenStack DefCore milestones. At the March Board meeting, the first official DefCore Guideline (called DefCore 2015.03) was approved. And the first DefCore Process draft is ready to… Read more »
OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Mar 13 – 20)
Feature freeze + Kilo-3 development milestone available We just hit Feature Freeze, so please do not approve changes that add features or new configuration options unless those have been granted a feature freeze exception. This is also String Freeze, so you should avoid changing translatable strings. If you have to modify a translatable string, you… Read more »
OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Mar 6 – 13)
Five years in: Charting the OpenStack galaxy The Starship Enterprise had a five year mission, to “explore strange new worlds,” among other things, and as we approach the five year mark in our own mission, it’s fun to think about the worlds we’ve seen and contemplate where to go next. Did anyone think we’d have… Read more »