Containers and OpenStack: here’s what you need to know
Interview with Adrian Otto, a principal architect at Rackspace, is the project technical lead (PTL) for Magnum, an API service developed by the OpenStack containers team for OpenStack to make container management tools such as Docker and Kubernetes available as first-class resources in OpenStack. Magnum officially joined the OpenStack project list upon approval by a unanimous vote by the Technical Committee in March 2015.
What building Legos can teach you about open source
If you want to build a gas station next to a children’s playground, fireworks are pretty much guaranteed. That not-in-my-neighborhood face-off was one of the issues hashed out in a recent OpenStack Upstream Training session where about 50 participants split into teams building Lego sets.
Travel grants bring global community members to OpenStack Summit
Turns out there’s nothing like working together in person to push a cloud project forward. To help make that valuable face time happen, the OpenStack Foundation funded the travel and hotel accommodations for 21 men and 7 women who are key contributors to attend the OpenStack Summit Vancouver.
Neutron RFE Process
Starting with the development of the Juno release, the Neutron project moved to using a specs repository similar to how other projects were using them. Kyle Mestery, Neutron’s PTL, reflects on the fact that the process at best, lengthened the pipeline we had in place to gate the incoming feature fire-hose. At worst, it turned off potential committers. Neutron’s team is implementing a new process meant to allow users to express their desires for new features using Launchpad.
More Post-Vancouver Summaries
- Geocaching at OpenStack Summit
- The OpenStack Summit Kilo Summit – Recap
- [oslo] Updates from the Summit
- Liberty summit: Updates in Glance
- summit session summary: Release Versioning for Server Applications
Relevant Conversations
- Dynamic Policy and Microversions
- The Nova API in Kilo and Beyond
- 10 ways to make OpenStack more Start-up Friendly [even more critical in wake of recent consolidation]
- OpenStack is as start-up friendly as anything
- OpenStack and Diversity
- [ceilometer][all] Scalable metering
- Scaling out Nova (and the code review process)
- [Nova] Follow up actions from the Summit: please help
- Architecture Diagrams in ascii art?
Deadlines and Contributors Notifications
- What’s Up, Doc? 29 May 2015
- What’s Up, Doc? 5 June 2015
- No longer doing stable point release
- [Swift] dropping Py26 support
- The new Lieutenant system in Neutron
- [cinder] Cutting Inactive Blueprints for L-1
- Architecture Diagrams in ascii art?
Security Advisories and Notices
- None
Tips ‘n Tricks
- By Thomas Oulevey: Juno, EL6 and RDO Community.
- By Dan Kingshott: Openstack Essentials Part 2 – Installing Swift on Ubuntu
- By Matt Farina: Theming The OpenStack Dashboard In Kilo and Building Custom AngularJS Panels in the OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon)
- By Ronald Bradford: Contributing to OpenStack and Writing and testing unit tests in OpenStack and Installing Ubuntu OpenStack and Tracking the Ubuntu OpenStack installation process
- By Eli Polonsky: Auto-Scaling your Apps with TOSCA & Cloudify – An Orchestration Tool Comparison Pt II of II
- By John Eckersberg: Debugging RabbitMQ frame_too_large Error
Open Call for Proposals
- LinuxCon Europe, deadline June 17, 2015
- CloudOpen Europpe, deadline June 17, 2015
- Linux.conf.au 2016, deadline July 6, 2015
Recently Merged Specs
Upcoming Events
- Jun 06, 2015 OpenStack Meetup, Bangalore Bangalore, 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 Howto part 4 – Network Prague, CZ
- Jun 11, 2015 OpenStack DACH Day 2015 Berlin, DE
- Jun 14 – 18, 2015 OpenStack Israel Advanced Public Training Raanana, IL
- Jun 15, 2015 OpenStack Israel Event 2015 Tel Aviv-Yafo, 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 11, 2015 OpenStack Day Taiwan 2015 Taipei, TW
- Aug 13 – 14, 2015 OpenStack Collective Austin, TX, US
- Aug 25, 2015 OpenStack Trove Day 2015 San Jose, CA, US
Other News
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Unexpected hiccup before the release
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