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OpenStack at PuppetConf: Tim Bell of CERN to Keynote

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PuppetConf is coming up September 27-28 in San Francisco, and we’re excited to announce some great OpenStack content, including a keynote presentation from Tim Bell of CERN!  Tim’s talk, ‘Accelerating Science with Puppet and OpenStack,’ will review CERN’s objectives, and how their computing infrastructure is evolving to address challenges at scale using community supported software… Read more »

TryStack.org Adds New ARM Technology-Powered Zone

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Today is a monumental day in ARM server history! TryStack.org, the hosted cloud sandbox for OpenStack, now has an ARM-based OpenStack zone in addition to the x86 zone. (This is, to our knowledge, the first OpenStack cluster made publicly available on an ARM-based system!) For those of you not familiar with TryStack, it’s a community maintained OpenStack cloud… Read more »

OpenStack Summit coming October 15th-19th to San Diego, CA

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This morning we had an online meeting to discuss the plans for the next Summit.  The presentation is embedded below, as is the meeting recording. Key points: Dates:  October 15th-19th – Mark your calendars! (Friday the 19th will be an optional charity event to benefit a local charity) Location:  San Diego, CA Format:  More of… Read more »

Here is what happens inside Nova when you provision a VM

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At the Essex conference summit this past month, we presented a session on  OpenStack Essex architecture. As a part of that workshop we visually demonstrated the request flow for provisioning a VM and went over Essex arthicture. There was a lot of interest in this material; it’s now posted in Slideshare: Recap of the request flow… Read more »

OpenStack Foundation Update

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We’ve come a long way since announcing in October in Boston that we planned to create an OpenStack Foundation in 2012. We set out to solicit as much feedback as possible (and on the second day, there was a town hall) and to participate in as many open forums as possible (mailing lists, webinars, meetups,… Read more »

Another Step Forward for OpenStack in Production

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Today Mark Interrante, Rackspace’s head of product, announced that the next generation of Rackspace’s Cloud Servers, powered by OpenStack Compute (Nova), is moving from Alpha to Beta for customers.  This is a major endorsement of the continuing maturation of OpenStack and its readiness to be deployed today.  Here are a couple of highlights about this… Read more »

TryStack.org – A Sandbox for OpenStack!

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Today, a project that has been a long time in the making is finally coming to fruition. Back last summer, when I was working at Rackspace, Nati Ueno from NTT PF Labs came up with the idea of establishing a “Free Cloud” — a site running OpenStack that developers using the OpenStack APIs could use… Read more »

Automating Openstack Testing on Ubuntu

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(Original Post) During the Ubuntu precise development cycle the Canonical Platform Server Team have been working on automating testing of Openstack on Ubuntu. The scope of this work was: Per-commit testing of Openstack trunk to evaluate the current state of the upstream codebase in-conjunction with the current packaging in Ubuntu precise and the current Juju… Read more »

Please Welcome AT&T to the OpenStack Community!

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We are very excited to welcome AT&T to the OpenStack community today! John Donovan, AT&T’s Chief Technology Officer made the announcement at their annual AT&T developer’s summit in Las Vegas today: “We also announced today that AT&T has become the first U.S. telecom services provider to join the OpenStack initiative, a community of more than… Read more »