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OpenStack Operators Takeaways from the OpenStack Mid-Cycle Ops Meetup: first time’s the charm [1] OpenStack Upgrading Tutorial: 11 pitfalls and solutions [2] “No Open Core” in 2016 (continuing) Continuing with discussions on Poppy in particular, Doug Hellmann raises that the Poppy team has done everything we’ve asked. The governance currently emphasizes on the social aspects… Read more »

SuccessBot Says dhellmann: [1] is live with release history and upcoming release schedules. ttx:  Governance changes are now announced in #openstack-dev, to increase general awareness about them! jklare: Just merged the first batch of opentack-chef cookbook patches for the Mitaka cycle! 4.229 lines of code refactored and 18.678 lines removed! johnthetubaguy: Nova subteams starting to… Read more »

SuccessBot Says odyssey4me: OpenStack Ansible Liberty 12.0.5 released. stevemar: Devstack now defaults to v3 for Keystone. boris-42: osprofiler functional job passed [1]. odyssey4me: OpenStack Ansible Kilo 11.2.9 released [2]. odyssey4me: OpenStack Ansible Liberty 12.0.6 released [3]. All: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Successes Cross-Project Specs A common policy scenario across all projects [4]. Query config from web UI [5] API Guidelines… Read more »

Success Bot Says mriedem: nova liberty 12.0.1 released [1]. OpenStack Ansible Kilo 11.2.7 has been released. OpenStack-Ansible Liberty 12.0.4 has been released. Tell us yours via IRC with a message “#success [insert success]”. All: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Successes Governance License requirement clarification for big tent projects [2]. Make constraints opt in at the test level [3]. OSprofiler is now… Read more »

Success Bot Says stevemar: Latest python-neutronclient use keystoneauth, yay! devkulkarni: Devstack plugin for Solum finally working as expected. dulek: Initial tests show that our rolling upgrades stuff is working fine – I’m able to use Mitaka’s Cinder API service with Liberty’s cinder-scheduler and c-volume services. Tell us yours via IRC with a message “#success [insert… Read more »

SuccessBot Says russellb: Ported OVS to Python 3. notmyname: Removed the beta tag on the swift erasure code docs. AJaeger: OpenStack configuration reference has been migrated from DocBook XML to RST [1]. notmyname: This season’s Outreachy intern had her first patch merged. odyssey4me: OpenStack-Ansible 12.0.3 tagged. jordanP: My 3rd party CI correctly warned me that… Read more »

Running an OpenStack cloud? Come to the first European Mid-Cycle Operators meetup The meetup, held February 15 – 16, 2016 in Manchester, is a chance for operators to share best practices and give feedback. The keys to OpenStack startup success: Platform9 Systems Platform9 Systems opens its startup playbook, highlighting ecosystem challenges and tips for fellow… Read more »

Success Bot Says jroll: Ironic is using the devstack plugin. Tell us yours via IRC with a message “#success [insert success]”. Cross-Project Specs Approved by the Technical Committee: Chronicles Of A DLM [1]. OpenStack will adopt Tooz as an abstract layer to distributed lock managements solutions. This will allow projects to provide all the options… Read more »

Travel grants bring global community members to OpenStack Summit Key contributors from 15 countries attended the recent OpenStack Summit in Tokyo. The program for Austin is growing – find out more about the Travel Support Program. OpenStack Mitaka release: what’s next for Neutron, Cinder and Ceilometer Meet the project team leads (PTLs) and find out… Read more »

Success Bot Says AJaeger: With Juno End-of-Life, Python 2.6 testing has been removed from OpenStack CI. Tell us yours via IRC with a message “#success [insert success]”. Gerrit Update 12/16 Gerrit will be offline December 16th 17:00-21:00 UTC Gerrit will be upgraded to 2.11 IP address will stay the same. For questions, reply to the thread… Read more »