Highlights of the week
Important CLA changes coming this weekend
Starting on February 24, 2013 all contributors MUST review and agree to the new OpenStack Individual Contributor License Agreement and provide updated contact information at https://review.openstack.org/#/settings/agreements. On that day the Gerrit interface will be changing to present the new CLA text referring to the OpenStack Foundation, and will prompt you to agree to it there. Any previous agreement with OpenStack LLC will be marked expired at that time. The text of the new agreement is available for your convenience (changes “LLC” to “Foundation”, restores a sentence from ASF and corrects a few typographical errors). You must also sign up for an OpenStack Foundation Individual Membership with the same E-mail address as used for your Gerrit contact information: http://openstack.org/register/.
OpenStack outpaces Amazon, at least by hype
A study conducted by TrendKite shows that at this point OpenStack has more media mentions than Amazon EC2, Eucalyptus, CloudStack and OpenNebula combined. If that is not enough, another chart from the same study appears to show that “OpenStack” media mentions are on par with that of “Cloud Computing.”
CloudEnvy: Development in the cloud!
Jake Dahn is working on a project called CloudEnvy which has potential to change the development patterns of web developers everywhere: it allows you to configure and distribute reproducible development environments in the cloud.
Bring on the Crazy: Zero to Book in Five Days
Anne Gentle is leading a “crazy” project: a large, highly focused documentation sprint to write that operator’s guide — for operators by operators. Anne promised to pluck operators out of their day jobs, put them in a room, fuel them with coffee, BBQ, and TexMex, and get to writing. Sounds awesome to me: I’m voting for their panel On Writing the OpenStack Operations Manual in 5 Days at the upcoming OpenStack Summit.
The OpenStack Gate
The OpenStack project has a really impressive continuous integration system, which is one of its core strengths as a project. Every proposed change to our gerrit review system is subjected to a battery of tests on each commit, which has grown dramatically with time, and after formal review by core contributors, we run them all again before the merge. How can this gate merge hundreds of changes per day? Learn about Zuul, the OpenStack gatekeeper.
Security Advisories
- OSSA 2013-005] Keystone EC2-style authentication accepts disabled user/tenants (CVE-2013-0282)
- OSSA 2013-004] Information leak and Denial of Service using XML entities (CVE-2013-1664, CVE-2013-1665)
Tips and Tricks
- By Victoria Martínez de la Cruz: How to work with blueprints without losing your mind
- By Anita Kuno: OpenStack Release Cycle – n00b’s Eyeview
- By Daniel P. Berrangé: A reminder why you should never mount guest disk images on the host OS
- By Everett Toews: Swift Only with OpenStack DevStack on the Rackspace Cloud
- By Laura Alves: Doc for code and Doc as code – Part I
- By Russell Bryant: Deployment Considerations for nova-conductor Service in OpenStack Grizzly
- By Sébastien Han: override DHCP information sent by DNSMASQ to a VM
Upcoming Events
- SCALE 11x Feb 22 – 24, 2013 – Los Angeles, CA Details
- OpenStack in Production at Scale Feb 28, 2013 – Chicago, IL Details
- Pulse Open Cloud Summit Mar 03, 2013 – MGM Grand in Las Vegas, NV Details
- Pulse 2013 Mar 04 – 06, 2013 – Las Vegas, NV Details
- OpenStack Day Tokyo 2013 Mar 12, 2013 – Tokyo, Japan Details
- OpenStack Italia User Group: …dove eravamo rimasti? Mar 14, 2013 – Milano, Italy Details
- OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) API Sprint at PyCon 2013 Mar 18, 2013 – Santa Clara, CA Details
- OpenStack Paris Meetup Mar 19, 2013 – Paris, France Details
- World Hosting Days 2013 Mar 19 – 21, 2013 – Rust, Germany Details
- OpenStack Developers Meetup Mar 21, 2013 – Atlanta, GA Details
- 1st OpenStack User Group Nordics meetup Apr 03, 2013 – Kista, Sweden Details
- OpenStack Summit April 2013 Apr 15 – 18, 2013 – Portland, OR Details
- OpenStack Israel May 27, 2013 – Tel-Aviv, Israel Coming Soon
- GigaOM Structure Jun 19 – 20, 2013 – San Francisco, CA Details
Reports from previous events
- OpenStack mini conference @gnunify.in
- 2nd Swiss OpenStack User Group
- TryStack.cn Community 2nd Meetup – 19th February 2013
Other News
- OpenStack wiki migration
- OpenStack newcomers channel opening in Freenode
- Grizzly-3 development milestone available (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Horizon, Quantum, Cinder)
- OpenStack Project Meeting: Summary and full logs
Welcome New Contributors
Celebrating the first patches submitted this week by:
- Toshiyuki Hayashi, NTT
- Joe Topjian
- David Höppner
- Erik Zaadi, IBM
- Nathanael Burton
- alatynskaya, Mirantis
- David Peraza, IBM
- Brant Knudson, IBM
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