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Highlights of the week

 Decision On Third Party APIs

The PPB in its May 15 meeting decided that:
An OpenStack project will support an official API in it’s core implementation(the OpenStack API). Other APIs will be implemented external to core. The core project will expose stable, complete, performant interfaces so that 3rd party APIs can be implemented in a complete and performant manner.

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Performance Comparison: Ubuntu 12.04 + OpenStack Swift Essex Release ” by Zmanda Team Blog

The Zmandateam published a cloud backup performance comparison between OpenStack Swift Essex on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and OpenStack Swift 1.46 + Ubuntu 11.10, as well as demonstrated the functionality of Object Store in the OpenStack Dashboard.

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Swift Part-Power and Performance – SwiftStack Blog

We work a lot with smaller-scale Swift clusters. Today we were asked a question about a Swift configuration setting which relates to the number of partitions in the ring data structure that are created. Data lives in partitions and it’s up to an operator to decide how many partitions should be created.

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Here is what happens inside Nova when you provision a VM

At the Essex conference summit this past month, Mirantis presented a session on OpenStack Essex architecture. Find the slides for that session.

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Electric Duncan: CERN, OpenStack Keep Resonance Cascades at Bay

As previously mentioned, there’s a growing momentum around ops-oriented participation in the OpenStack community. DreamHost is deeply invested in DevOps, seeing how that’s where we’re going to be living in a few months!

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OpenStack nova-scheduler and its algorithm (IBM OpenStack)

Among the current core projects of OpenStack, Nova project is the core of the cores. Just as described in OpenStack website, Nova is a cloud computing fabric controller, the main part of an IaaS system. There are more than 20 binaries in OpenStack nova project.

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Indian User Group first meet up

The first formal meetup of the Indian OpenStack User Group was held in Bangalore last weekend on the 5th of May. The event was attended by 25 enthusiastic InStackers.

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Upcoming Events

• Workshop: Building a cloud with OpenStack Essex May 25, 2012 – Berlin, DE Details
• OpenStack Israel 2012 May 30, 2012 – Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel Details
• OpenStack in action 2! – Production ready May 31, 2012 – Paris, France Details
• Return of the Ceph Lords May 31, 2012 – Los Angeles, CA Details
• OpenShift + OpenStack + Fedora = Awesome! Jun 05, 2012 – Redmond, WA Details
• Open Cloud and Public Administration Jun 19, 2012 – Bern, Switzerland Call for papers
• 13th International Free Software Forum – OpenStack Track Jul 25 – 28, 2012 – Porto Alegre, Brazil Coordination

 Other news

• The OpenStack Community Team now has a dedicated project and attached blueprints. Join the #openstack-community channel in IRC to help
• A blueprint describing an overall PKI approach for securing an OpenStack deployment http://wiki.openstack.org/PKI
• Specifications for efficient Metering in OpenStack http://wiki.openstack.org/EfficientMetering
• Refresh the iCal feed for all OpenStack meetings as there a few changes/additions