DefCore Update: Input Request for Havana Capabilities As part of our community’s commitment to interoperability, the OpenStack Board of Directors has been working to make sure that “downstream” OpenStack-branded commercial products offer the same baseline functionality and include the same upstream, community-developed code. The work to define these required core capabilities and code has been… Read more »
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OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (July 4 – 11)
OpenStack Swift 2.0 Released and Storage Policies Have Arrived OpenStack Swift 2.0.0. This release includes storage policies – the culmination of a year of work from many members of the Swift contributor community. Storage policies are the biggest thing to happen in Swift since it was open-sourced four years ago. Storage policies allow you to… Read more »
OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (June 27 – July 4)
OpenStack Turns 4 – It’s Time to Celebrate the Community! OpenStack celebrates its 4th birthday July 19, and we’re celebrating with the entire OpenStack community during July! User maturity, software maturity and a focus on cloud software operations are rapidly emerging for OpenStack and none of it would be possible without the quickly growing OpenStack… Read more »
OpenStack – A Global Perspective: Five Things we Learned at OpenStack Events Across Europe and Israel
We say the words “global community” and “collaboration” so often they can start to lose their meaning. It’s easy to lose sight of the bigger picture, and the scale of our community far beyond name-brand users from the US or the number of Summit attendees. A few weeks ago, members of the OpenStack community organized… Read more »
OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (June 20 – 27)
OpenStack Technical Committee Update (June 25) The TC is busy discussing OpenStack Glance‘s mission, evolving from cataloging and serving Nova disk images to cataloging and serving other artifacts consumed by other OpenStack services, like for example Heat templates. This scope evolution has been under discussion at the last two meetings. Read the other things that… Read more »
OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (June 13 – 20)
Summer Speaking Sessions and Call for Papers Summer is in full swing and there are some great industry events coming up on the OpenStack Marketing calendar, as well as Call for Proposals deadlines! Marconi to AMQP: See you later In the last couple of weeks, Marconi’s team has been doing lots of research around AMQP… Read more »
OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (June 6 – 13)
Moving forward as a User Experience Team in the OpenStack Juno release cycle The OpenStack Juno Summit in Atlanta was a major turning point for User Experience professionals working on OpenStack. There were 3 specific design sessions around UX work and 1 talk on the persona work, all with great attendance, and the whole team… Read more »
OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (May 30 – June 6)
An Ideal OpenStack Developer In a long piece, Mark McLoughlin thinks about the velocity OpenStack achieved and how it has managed to attract an unusual number of contributors and, for such a complex project, made it relatively easy for tThe way I feel when upgrading my OpenStack cloudhem to contribute. He attempts to define The… Read more »
OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (May 23 – 30)
MySQL Galera does *not* support SELECT … FOR UPDATE It’s not as bad as it sounds but I think it’s worth mentioning here for two reasons: this conversation came as a result of putting developers and operators in the same room, again, in Atlanta. It proves that we’re on the right track to building cohesion… Read more »
OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (May 2 – 23)
Taking Stock of OpenStack’s Rapid Growth With another successful OpenStack Summit in the books, Jonathan Bryce reflects on three big areas of maturity that are rapidly emerging for the project: user maturity, software maturity and a focus on cloud operations. OpenStack Superuser Superuser is a new online publication dedicated to the experiences of individuals who… Read more »