Snapshot of the OpenStack community behind Kilo
The OpenStack community that helped create the Kilo release has done some seriously heavy lifting. For the 11th release, there were more contributors, more companies involved and more work across time zones than ever before.
Heat SoftwareConfig resources – primer/overview.
Steve Hardy provides an overview of Heat’s Software Configuration resources, as a preface to digging in more detail into the structure of TripleO heat templates, which leverage SoftwareConfig functionality to install and configure the deployed OpenStack cloud.
Ceph vs Swift – An Architect’s Perspective
A description of architectural details and differences between Ceph and Swift by Christian Huebner. A useful preview of his talk on the same topic at the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver.
The Road to Vancouver
- The unofficial guide to OpenStack Summit Vancouver
- OpenStack Trainings and Certifications Available in Vancouver
- Preparation to Design summit
- (Unofficial) Social activities: Geocaching in Vancover
Relevant Conversations
- Hidden costs of Cloud? No surprises, it’s still about complexity = people cost
- How should edge services APIs integrate into Neutron?
- 3 API Guidelines up for final review
- Port Nova to Python 3
- Success of the IPv6 Subteam – Proposal to disband
- TC Communications planning
- Operator’s Survey: OpenStack User Interface Customization
Deadlines and Development Priorities
- Trivial bug list, your help is welcome
- [neutron][api] Extensions out, Micro-versions in
- [keystone] Liberty MidCycle Meetup
Security Advisories and Notices
Tips ‘n Tricks
- By Steve Hardy: TripleO Heat templates Part 1 – Roles and Groups
- By Cyril Roelandt: Extending Tsung to benchmark Swift3
- By Sébastien Han: OpenStack Glance: deactivate an image
- By Purging Nova databases in a cell environment
- By Brad Pokorny: How to use Horizon with Keystone V3
- By Ronald Bradford: Disabling the temporary authorization token in devstack keystone
- By Steve Gordon: CPU Pinning and NUMA Topology Awareness in OpenStack Compute
- By James Thorne: Backing Up Cinder Volumes to Swift
- By Nathan Kinder: Leveraging Linux Platform for Identity Management in Enterprise Web Applications
- By Shannon McFarland: Tenant IPv6 Deployment in OpenStack Kilo Release
- By Julien Danjou: How to try ceilometer with gnocchi
Upcoming Events
- May 08, 2015 Open… House. Community. Stack. Sunnyvale, CA, US
- May 08, 2015 South Bay OpenStack Meetup, Beginner track
- May 09, 2015 4th Public Meetup Vietnam OpenStack. Ha Noi, VN
- May 11, 2015 Big Data, Analytics & Applied Machine Learning – Israeli Innovation Conference
- May 12, 2015 High Availability in OpenStack Athens, GR
- May 12 – 13, 2015 OpenStack + Heterogeneous Docker Orchestration (#1)
- May 12, 2015 OpenStack MUC– CenterDevice UserStory Munich, DE
- May 12, 2015 First OpenStack-Nova Meetup Reston, Virginia, US
- May 13 – 14, 2015 2º Hangout OpenStack Brasil 2015 Brasil, BR
- May 13 – 14, 2015 OpenStack + Heterogeneous Docker Orchestration (#21) Washington D.C., DC, US
- May 13, 2015 OpenStack hands on Buenos Aires, AR
- May 14, 2015 Singapore OpenStack User Group Singapore, SG
- May 18 – 22, 2015 OpenStack Summit May 2015 Vancouver, BC
- Jun 02, 2015 penStack Day LATAM Mexico City, MX
- Jun 04, 2015 OpenStack Days Istanbul – 2015 Istanbul, TR
- Jun 06, 2015 OpenStack Meetup, Bangalore Bangalore, Karnataka, IN
- Jun 06, 2015 Newcomer Training for OpenStack San Diego, CA, US
- Jun 08, 2015 OpenStack CEE Day 2015 Budapest, HU
- Jun 09, 2015 Driving Software Defined Economy Milano, IT
- Jun 11, 2015 OpenStack DACH Day 2015 Berlin, DE
- Jun 15, 2015 OpenStack Israel 2015 Tev Aviv, IL
- Jul 20 – 24, 2015 OSCON 2015 Portland, OR, US
- Jul 30 – 31, 2015 DCD INTERNET San Francisco, CA, US
- Aug 10 – 13, 2015 Gartner Catalyst Conference San Diego, CA, US
- Aug 13 – 14, 2015 OpenStack Collective Austin, TX, US
- Aug 25, 2015 OpenStack Trove Day 2015 San Jose, CA, US
Other News
- How to orchestrate containers in OpenStack
- How OpenStack gets translated
- New to OpenStack? Why it pays to jump right in
- Horizon Kilo Cycle Recap
- Women in OPENTech: The Why, Where and How of Getting Started
- Gnocchi 1.0.0 released
- Tagging OpenStack projects with operational details
New Specs This Week
- Add spec for ‘stable keystone driver interfaces’
- Deprecations
- Change ZeroMQ driver underlying pattern to REQ/REP
- Refactor oslotest base class into fixtures
- Add soft policies for server-group feature
- Add spec for abc-driver-update
- Signaling SoftwareDeployment resources via Swift
- … More specs open for comments
OpenStack Reactions
Saying hello for the first time at the summit to someone we know on IRC
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