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53 things that are new in OpenStack Liberty Another autumn, another OpenStack release.  OpenStack’s 12th release, Liberty, is due on October 15, and release candidates are already being made available.  But what can we expect from the last six months of development? App Developers: First App on OpenStack Tutorial Needs You The tutorial that guides… Read more »

Register for OpenStack Summit Tokyo 2015 Full access registration prices increase on 9/29 at 11:59pm PT This trove of user stories highlights what people want in OpenStack The Product Working Group recently launched a Git repository to collect requirements ranging from encrypted storage to rolling upgrades. How storage works in containers Nick Gerasimatos, senior director… Read more »

Running OpenStack? You have the power to influence the roadmap Complete the User Survey by September 25 Call for Outreachy Mentors  If you are a  full-time contributor, please consider sharing your time, knowledge and experience to make our community more diverse and you’ll have the opportunity to meet new talents. Ask for further directions in… Read more »

Why you should take TryStack for a spin now The free OpenStack testing sandbox is back — and it’s bigger, badder and better than ever. Liberty cycle retrospective in Puppet OpenStack Things are moving very fast in OpenStack; it might be useful to take a short break and write down a little bit of retrospective;… Read more »

The OpenStack community continues to grow, and the OpenStack Foundation has been hiring to help support many exciting new initiatives and activities as we drive cloud innovation, adoption, and interoperability. New hires in 2015 include: Wes Wilson, Lead Designer, joined late January and has been working on Todd Morey’s team to help build out OpenStack.org… Read more »

Google runs one of the world’s largest and most sophisticated automated infrastructures, pioneering new paradigms in cloud computing with containers (launching 2 billion a week), while sharing their work in the open with innovative open source projects like Kubernetes.   That’s why I’m so excited to announce that Google is sponsoring the OpenStack Foundation, underscoring… Read more »

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! Christian Berendt (B1 Systems), Sean Collins (Mirantis), James Dempsey (Catalyst IT) and Tom Fifield gathered in Taipei, with Nick Chase live via video link, to produce… Read more »

OpenStack celebrates its 5th birthday July 19, and we’re celebrating with the entire OpenStack community during July! Cloud interoperability and support for developer productivity have been focuses for the OpenStack project this year, and none of it would be possible without the quickly growing OpenStack community. There are now more than 80 global user groups and 27,300… Read more »