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OpenStack DefCore Community Review – TWO Sessions April 21 (agenda)

During the DefCore process, we’ve had regular community check points to review and discuss the latest materials from the committee. With the latest work on the official process and flurry of Guidelines, we’ve got a lot of concrete material to show. To accommodate global participants, we’ll have TWO sessions (and record both):

1. April 21 8 am Central (1 pm UTC) https://join.me/874-029-687

2. April 21 8 pm Central (9 am Hong Kong) https://join.me/903-179-768

Help pick the new logos for OpenStack User Groups & OpenStack Days

We are introducing a unique logo for OpenStack User Groups, to help recognize official groups and their important role in helping grow the OpenStack Community. The deadline to complete the survey is Wednesday April 22, 2015.

Let your voice be heard: vote for the Superuser Award!

The Superuser Awards, first launched at the Paris Summit, recognize a team that uses OpenStack to meaningfully improve their business and differentiate in a competitive industry, while also contributing back to the community. This time, the OpenStack community votes to select the winner.

• National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou
• Walmart
• eBay Inc.
• Comcast

OpenStack breaks a new record for active contributors

With 556 active contributors per month, this first quarter of 2015 is the highest in the history of OpenStack. Compared to the previous quarter, core and regular contributors have also increased 10 percent and 20 percent, respectively. You can read the complete report, including details of the methodology, on the Activity Board repository or take deep into the activity of OpenStack individual projects.

PTL Election Conclusion and Results

Congratulations to the newly elected PTL John Garbutt for Nova and thank you Michael Still for the hard work. The other PTLs have not been challenged but there are some changes. The list and full announcement on the mailing list.

The Road to Vancouver

• Canada Visa Information
• Official Hotel Room Blocks
• 2015 OpenStack T-Shirt Design Contest
• Preparation to Design summit
  • Liberty Design Summit – Proposed room / time layout
  • What’s a Design Summit? We can squeeze few more people in Upstream Training

Relevant Conversations

• Proposed Liberty release schedule

Deadlines and Development Priorities

• Candidate proposals for TC (Technical Committee) positions are now open
• proposed/kilo is dead, long live stable/kilo

Security Advisories and Notices

• Unauthorized delete of versioned Swift object (CVE-2015-1856)
• S3Token TLS cert verification option not honored (CVE-2015-1852)

Tips ‘n Tricks

• By Sergey Melikyan: OpenStack Murano application catalog: Heat-based applications in the cloud
• By Steve Dake: Preserving contaner properties via volume mounts
• By Assaf Muller: Distributed Virtual Routing – Overview and East/West Routing and Distributed Virtual Routing – SNAT and Distributed Virtual Routing – Floating IPs
• By Michael J. Clarkson, Jr.: OpenStack Juno multi compute node Lab – Ready to use environment on AWS and Google Cloud
• By Adam Young: Creating a new Network for a dual NIC VM and Using the openstack command line interface to create a new server.

Upcoming Events

• Apr 17, 2015 Inaugural OpenStack PDX Meetup
• Apr 17, 2015 SFBay OpenStack Advanced Track #OSSFO Topic: Keystone
• Apr 18, 2015 April Sydney Hackathon
• Apr 18, 2015 OpenStack India Meetup, Bangalore Bangalore, Karnataka, IN
• Apr 20, 2015 Assemblée générale OpenStackFR 2015 Paris, FR
• Apr 20, 2015 Meetup#14 Placement intelligent et SLA avancé avec Nova Scheduler Paris, FR
• Apr 20, 2015 Melbourne Meetup featuring Randy Bias
• Apr 20 – 21, 2015 OpenStack Conference, part of the CONNECT Show Melbourne, AU
• Apr 20, 2015 Ubuntu OpenStack Roadshow London, GB
• Apr 20, 2015 OpenStackFR annual general meeting Paris, US
• Apr 20, 2015 Advanced placement with Nova Paris, FR
• Apr 21 – 22, 2015 CONNECT 2015 Melbourne, Victoria, AU
• Apr 21 – 24, 2015 The Great Indian HP Code Off @ GIDS Bangalore, Karnataka, IN
• Apr 21, 2015 Ubuntu OpenStack Roadshow Paris, FR
• Apr 22, 2015 Canonical Ubuntu OpenStack Roadshow Amsterdam, NL
• Apr 22, 2015 Data storage in clouds Athens, GR
• Apr 22, 2015 OpenStack’te farkli mimari ornekleri, farklari, artilari, eksileri
• Apr 22 – 23, 2015 China SDNNFV Conference Beijing, CN
• Apr 22, 2015 OpenStack NYC Meetup New York, NY, US
• Apr 22, 2015 Ubuntu OpenStack Roadshow Amsterdam, NL
• Apr 22, 2015 Data storage in OpenStack clouds Athens, GR
• Apr 23, 2015 OpenStack Philadelphia Meetup Philadelphia, PA, US
• Apr 23, 2015 OpenStack L.A. Meetup Pasadena, CA, US
• Apr 23, 2015 Ubuntu OpenStack Roadshow Frankfurt, DE
• Apr 23, 2015 Business Agility with OpenStack New York City, New York, US
• May 05 – 07, 2015 CeBIT AU 2015 Sydney, NSW, AU
• May 09, 2015 OpenStack Meetup Hanoi Hanoi, Hanoi, VN
• May 18 – 22, 2015 OpenStack Summit May 2015 Vancouver, BC
• Jun 02, 2015 OpenStack Day LATAM Mexico City, MX
• Jun 04, 2015 OpenStack Days Istanbul – 2015 Istanbul, TR
• Jun 08, 2015 OpenStack CEE Day 2015 Budapest, HU
• Jun 11, 2015 OpenStack DACH Day 2015 Berlin, DE
• Jun 15, 2015 OpenStack Israel Tel Aviv, IL
• Jul 20 – 24, 2015 OSCON 2015 Portland, OR, US

Other News

• OpenStack Technical Committee candidates
• Real innovation? It means keeping cloud solutions simple
• What’s Up Doc? April 17, 2015

OpenStack Reactions

Seeing another +1 email for a core nomination

 

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Making your list and checking it twice for the OpenStack Vancouver Summit

Emily Hugenbruch shared her pre-summit checklists: great tips there.

OVN and OpenStack Integration Development Update

The Open vSwitch project announced the OVN effort back in January and Russell Bryant started to look into it. He reports about OVN, calling it “a promising open source backend for OpenStack Neutron”.

OpenStack in the classroom

Amrith Kumar announced an effort to work with educational institutions in Massachusetts and near Toronto (where Tesora has offices) to try and make available a course on cloud computing with OpenStack as the exemplar system.

OpenStack In The Enterprise

A new mini-portal on openstack.org website to discover use cases and white papers from the enterprise world.

The Road to Vancouver

• Sign up for OpenStack Upstream Training in Vancouver
• Canada Visa Information
• Official Hotel Room Blocks
• 2015 OpenStack T-Shirt Design Contest
• Preparation to Design summit
  • Liberty Design Summit – Proposed slot allocation
  • What’s a Design Summit? There is still room for Upstream Training

Relevant Conversations

• PTL Voting is now open
• Kilo stable branches for “other” libraries
• The Evolution of core developer to maintainer?
• The Core Deficiency
• Implementation of Pacemaker Managed OpenStack VM Recovery
• Neutron Kilo Retrospective and a Look Toward Liberty
• [Neutron] The specs process, effective operators feedback and product management

Deadlines and Development Priorities

• [Nova] Identifying release critical bugs in Kilo
• [Cinder] Bug Triage – Call for Participation
• [Nova] Liberty specs are now open and [Nova] Trunk is now Liberty
• [neutron] Liberty Specs are now open!

Security Advisories and Notices

• None

Tips ‘n Tricks

• By Adam Young: Horizon WebSSO via SSSD
• By Assaf Muller: Multinode DVR Devstack
• By Alessandro Pilotti: VirtualBox driver for OpenStack

Upcoming Events

• Apr 13 – 14, 2015 OpenStack Live Santa Clara, CA, US
• Apr 13 – 16, 2015 StackAttack! A HOLatCollaborate15 Las Vegas, NV, US
• Apr 15, 2015 iX OpenStack Tag Köln, NRW, DE
• Apr 15 – 16, 2015 1º Hangout OpenStack Brasil 2015 Brasil, BR
• Apr 16 – 18, 2015 Open Cloud 2015 Beijing, Beijing, CN
• Apr 16, 2015 8th OpenStack Meetup Stockholm Stockholm, SE
• Apr 16, 2015 8th OpenStack User Group Nordics meetup Stockholm, SE
• Apr 21 – 22, 2015 CONNECT 2015 Melbourne, Victoria, AU
• Apr 22 – 23, 2015 China SDNNFV Conference Beijing, CN
• Apr 22, 2015 OpenStack NYC Meetup New York, NY, US
• Apr 23, 2015 OpenStack Philadelphia Meetup Philadelphia, PA, US
• May 05 – 07, 2015 CeBIT AU 2015 Sydney, NSW, AU
• May 18 – 22, 2015 OpenStack Summit May 2015 Vancouver, BC

Other News

• A community distribution of OpenStack
• Why adopting OpenStack for dev/test matters
• Gophercloud Update
• Why OpenStack will change the way we live, work and play

OpenStack Reactions

when the entire gate is borked and you’re trying to figure out why.

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Game changer: inside Adobe’s new Marketing Cloud architecture

The Adobe Marketing Cloud powers software-as-a-service marketing for outfits such as the Los Angeles Kings, eBags and Verizon Wireless. When the IT infrastructure team in Adobe’s Digital Marketing group realized it was time for an evolutionary revamp, it turned to OpenStack and VMware to up its game.

Nominations for OpenStack PTLs (Program Technical Leads) are now open

Nominations for OpenStack PTLs (Program Technical Leads) are now open and will remain open until April 9, 2015 05:59 UTC. To announce your candidacy please start a new openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org mailing list thread with the program name as a tag, example [Glance] PTL Candidacy with the body as your announcement of intent. People who are not the candidate, please refrain from posting +1 to the candidate announcement posting. Additional information about the nomination process can be found on the wiki.

Additions to OpenStack git namespace

• Magnum is now in the openstack git namespace
• [congress] is an openstack project

The Road to Vancouver

• Sign up for OpenStack Upstream Training in Vancouver
• Canada Visa Information
• Official Hotel Room Blocks
• 2015 OpenStack T-Shirt Design Contest
• Preparation to Design summit
  • Liberty Design Summit planning
  • [Nova] Tracking ideas for summit sessions
  • [QA] Tracking Ideas for Summit Sessions
  • [neutron] Design Summit Session etherpad

Relevant Conversations

• The Evolution of core developer to maintainer?
• [Nova][Neutron] Status of the nova-network to Neutron migration work
• “First App” Tutorial for OpenStack
• [api] Erring is Caring: An API Working Group Guideline for Errors
• “The Security Team” for OpenStack

Deadlines and Development Priorities

• [Nova] Identifying release critical bugs in Kilo
• [neutron] FF and our march towards the RC
• [cinder] Proposals for Liberty Summit
• [Cinder] Bug Triage – Call for Participation
• [sahara] Design summit proposals for Liberty Summit
• [Nova] Liberty specs are now open
• [neutron] Liberty Specs are now open!

Security Advisories and Notices

• None

Tips ‘n Tricks

• By Victoria Martínez de la Cruz: Creation of Trove-Compatible Images for RDO

Reports from Previous Events

• OpenStack QA Code Sprint in NYC
• Best Practices and Considerations Deploying OpenStack In Production

Upcoming Events

• Apr 06 – 07, 2015 April Meetup: “I Can Haz Moar Networks?” w/Midokura & Cumulus Networks Morrisville, NC, US
• Apr 07, 2015 April Sydney Meetup
• Apr 08 – 16, 2015 PyCon 2015 Montreal, Quebec, CA
• Apr 08 – 09, 2015 Software Defined Networks (SDN) & Linux Based Network OS (#20) Washington D.C., DC, US
• Apr 09 – 10, 2015 Are you getting the most out of Cinder block storage in OpenStack?
• Apr 09, 2015 OpenStack Howto part 1 – Install and Run Prague, CZ
• Apr 13 – 14, 2015 OpenStack Live Santa Clara, CA, US
• Apr 13 – 16, 2015 StackAttack! A HOLatCollaborate15 Las Vegas, NV, US
• Apr 15, 2015 iX OpenStack Tag Köln, NRW, DE
• Apr 15 – 16, 2015 1º Hangout OpenStack Brasil 2015 Brasil, BR
• Apr 16 – 18, 2015 Open Cloud 2015 Beijing, Beijing, CN
• Apr 16, 2015 8th OpenStack Meetup Stockholm Stockholm, SE
• Apr 16, 2015 8th OpenStack User Group Nordics meetup Stockholm, SE
• Apr 21 – 22, 2015 CONNECT 2015 Melbourne, Victoria, AU
• Apr 22 – 23, 2015 China SDNNFV Conference Beijing, CN
• Apr 22, 2015 OpenStack NYC Meetup New York, NY, US
• Apr 23, 2015 OpenStack Philadelphia Meetup Philadelphia, PA, US
• May 05 – 07, 2015 CeBIT AU 2015 Sydney, NSW, AU
• May 18 – 22, 2015 OpenStack Summit May 2015 Vancouver, BC

Other News

• Parallels goes open source, wants OpenStack’s help to penetrate enterprise
• Passion + community support = Success with OpenStack
• python-barbicanclient 3.0.3 released
• Million level scalability test report from cascading
• What’s Up Doc? Apr 2 2015
• [release] taskflow 0.8.1
• Call for testing: 2014.2.3 candidate tarballs

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Keep getting random -1 from Jenkins

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OpenStack DefCore Process Draft Posted for Review [major milestone]

OpenStack DefCore Committee is looking for community feedback about the proposed DefCore Process. March has been a month for OpenStack DefCore milestones. At the March Board meeting, the first official DefCore Guideline (called DefCore 2015.03) was approved. And the first DefCore Process draft is ready to be committed.

2015 OpenStack T-Shirt Design Contest

It’s that time of year again and we’re looking for a new design to grace OpenStack’s T-Shirts. Here’s your chance to show us your creative talent and submit an original design for our 2015 OpenStack T-shirt Design Contest!

The Road to Vancouver

• Sign up for OpenStack Upstream Training in Vancouver
• Canada Visa Information
• Official Hotel Room Blocks
• Next batch of invites to Kilo contributors will be sent after a new milestone is released

Relevant Conversations

• [Nova][Neutron] Status of the nova-network to Neutron migration work

Deadlines and Development Priorities

• [cinder] Deadline For Volume Drivers to Be Readded
• [neutron] FF and our march towards the RC
• Feature freeze + Kilo-3 development milestone available
• [cinder] Proposals for Liberty Summit
• [Cinder] Bug Triage – Call for Participation
• [sahara] Design summit proposals for Liberty Summit
• [oslo] must-fix bugs for final kilo releases
• [Nova] Liberty specs are now open

Security Advisories and Notices

• Nova console Cross-Site WebSocket hijacking (CVE-2015-0259)

Tips ‘n Tricks

• By Belmiro Moreira: Nova quota usage – synchronization
• By Anne Gentle: Male allies for women in tech: What’s needed?
• By Sébastien Han: OpenStack: reserve memory on your hypervisors
• By emoralesrh: SR-IOV Networking – Part II: Implementation Best Practices
• By Tim Bell: Not all cores are created equal
• By Sean Dague: OpenStack Emacs Tools
• By Maish Saidel-Keesing: Installing OpenStack CLI clients on Mac OSX
• By Adam Young: OpenStack keeps resetting my hostname
• By Steve Martinelli: Checklist for performing OpenStack code reviews
• By Adam Young: Troubleshooting Keystone in a New Install

Reports from Previous Events

• Scale & Maturity: Thoughts on the OpenStack Mid-Cycle Operators Meetup

Upcoming Events

OpenStack @ PyCon 2015: Booth info, looking for volunteers, posting of jobs, OpenStack presentations

• Mar 31, 2015 Ceph Day Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands, NL
• Mar 31, 2015 OpenStack: fueled and containerized Rome, IT
• Apr 01, 2015 OpenStack Meetup DFW Frisco, Texas, US
• Apr 03 – 06, 2015 ISCC2015 Ariana, Ariana, TN
• Apr 08 – 16, 2015 PyCon 2015 Montreal, Quebec, CA
• Apr 13 – 14, 2015 OpenStack Live Santa Clara, CA, US
• Apr 13 – 16, 2015 StackAttack! A HOLatCollaborate15 Las Vegas, NV, US
• Apr 15, 2015 iX OpenStack Tag Köln, NRW, DE
• Apr 16 – 18, 2015 Open Cloud 2015 Beijing, Beijing, CN
• Apr 21 – 22, 2015 CONNECT 2015 Melbourne, Victoria, AU
• Apr 22 – 23, 2015 China SDNNFV Conference Beijing, CN
• Apr 22, 2015 OpenStack NYC Meetup New York, NY, US
• Apr 23, 2015 OpenStack Philadelphia Meetup Philadelphia, PA, US
• May 05 – 07, 2015 CeBIT AU 2015 Sydney, NSW, AU
• May 18 – 22, 2015 OpenStack Summit May 2015 Vancouver, BC
• Jun 11, 2015 OpenStack DACH Day 2015 Berlin, DE
• Jul 20 – 24, 2015 OSCON 2015 Portland, OR, US
• Aug 10 – 13, 2015 Gartner Catalyst Conference San Diego, CA, US
• Sep 17, 2015 OpenStack Benelux Conference 2015 Bussum, NL
• Oct 04 – 08, 2015 Gartner SymposiumITxpo Orlando, FL, US
• Nov 15 – 20, 2015 Supercomputing 15 Austin, TX, US

Other News

• Interview with Doug Hellmann, OpenStack Contributor and Technical Committee Member
• As Paypal.com approaches 100 percent OpenStack, the private cloud is here to stay
• Why OpenStack is different from other open source projects
• OpenStack at 10: different code, same collaboration?

OpenStack Reactions

Yes, I’ll be your mentor for Outreachy

Feature freeze + Kilo-3 development milestone available

We just hit Feature Freeze, so please do not approve changes that add features or new configuration options unless those have been granted a feature freeze exception. This is also String Freeze, so you should avoid changing translatable strings. If you have to modify a translatable string, you should give a heads-up to the I18N team. Finally, this is also DepFreeze so you should avoid adding new dependencies (bumping oslo or openstack client libraries is OK until RC1). If you have a new dependency to add, raise a thread on openstack-dev about it.

The kilo-3 development milestone was tagged, it contains more than 200 features and 825 bugfixes added since the kilo-2 milestone 6 weeks ago. More details on the full announcement.

The joy of contributing to OpenStack

Contributing to OpenStack doesn’t have to be painful. To ease these pain points, OpenStack developed free upstream training.. You can sign up for the next one by May 2.

Another nice reading on the topic is Why your first OpenStack commit will always be the hardest, the interview with Susanne Balle, distinguished technologist with HP Cloud working on platform services.

Leveraging OpenStackClient as your unified command line interface

OpenStackClient v1.0.3 was released last week and this release includes a large number of feature requests and bug fixes. But the even more exciting news is that the OpenStack Technical Committee voted in favor to include OpenStackClient as part of it’s list of official projects! The newly integrated OpenStackClient project will include python-openstackclient, cliff and os-client-config.

Handling High Email Volume with sup

Over the last year, the openstack-dev mailing list has averaged 2500 messages every month. Staying on top of that much email can be challenging, especially with some of the consumer-grade email clients available today. Doug Hellmann recently upgraded his email setup to use sup, a terminal-based mail client. He says the switch helped him process the mailing list, and even keep up with gerrit at the same time. Sounds too good to be true to me. What do you think?

The Road to Vancouver

• Sign up for OpenStack Upstream Training in Vancouver
• Deadline for Superuser Awards: March 22
• Vancouver Summit Sponsorships Now Available
• Canada Visa Information
• Official Hotel Room Blocks
• Next batch of invites to Kilo contributors will be sent after a new milestone is released

Relevant Conversations

• if by “archived” you mean, “wipes out your tables completely”, then sure, it works fine
• Example configs
• Capability Discovery API

Deadlines and Development Priorities

• Feature freeze + Kilo-3 development milestone available
• [cinder] Proposals for Liberty Summit
• [Cinder] Bug Triage – Call for Participation
• [sahara] Design summit proposals for Liberty Summit
• [oslo] must-fix bugs for final kilo releases
• [Nova] Liberty specs are now open
• Gerrit downtime on 2015-03-21

Security Advisories and Notices

• None

Tips ‘n Tricks

• By Kashyap Chamarthy: Minimal DevStack with OpenStack Neutron networking
• By CaptainKVM: Custom Cloud Images for OpenStack pt1
• By Ben Nemec: QuintupleO Success!
• By Sébastien Han: OpenStack Glance NFS and Compute local direct fetch

Upcoming Events

OpenStack @ PyCon 2015: Booth info, looking for volunteers, posting of jobs, OpenStack presentations

• Mar 22 – 23, 2015 OpenStack Workshop, Pune, Bangalore, Karnataka, IN
• Mar 22 – 23, 2015 OpenStack Workshop at SICSR, Pune
• Mar 24, 2015 OpenStack Malaysia 2nd Meetup Damansara, Kuala Lumpur, MY
• Mar 26, 2015 PDX OpenStack Hackathon Portland, OR, US
• Mar 26, 2015 #CloudBeerStockholm Stockholm, SE
• Mar 26, 2015 OpenStack L.A. March Meetup Pasadena, CA, US
• Mar 31, 2015 Ceph Day Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands, NL
• Mar 31, 2015 OpenStack: fueled and containerized Rome, IT
• Apr 01, 2015 OpenStack Meetup DFW Frisco, Texas, US
• Apr 03 – 06, 2015 ISCC2015 Ariana, Ariana, TN
• Apr 08 – 16, 2015 PyCon 2015 Montreal, Quebec, CA
• Apr 13 – 14, 2015 OpenStack Live Santa Clara, CA, US
• Apr 13 – 16, 2015 StackAttack! A HOLatCollaborate15 Las Vegas, NV, US
• Apr 15, 2015 iX OpenStack Tag Köln, NRW, DE
• Apr 16 – 18, 2015 Open Cloud 2015 Beijing, Beijing, CN
• Apr 21 – 22, 2015 CONNECT 2015 Melbourne, Victoria, AU
• Apr 22 – 23, 2015 China SDNNFV Conference Beijing, CN
• Apr 22, 2015 OpenStack NYC Meetup New York, NY, US
• Apr 23, 2015 OpenStack Philadelphia Meetup Philadelphia, PA, US
• May 05 – 07, 2015 CeBIT AU 2015 Sydney, NSW, AU
• May 18 – 22, 2015 OpenStack Summit May 2015 Vancouver, BC
• Jun 11, 2015 OpenStack DACH Day 2015 Berlin, DE
• Jul 20 – 24, 2015 OSCON 2015 Portland, OR, US
• Aug 10 – 13, 2015 Gartner Catalyst Conference San Diego, CA, US
• Sep 17, 2015 OpenStack Benelux Conference 2015 Bussum, NL
• Oct 04 – 08, 2015 Gartner SymposiumITxpo Orlando, FL, US
• Nov 15 – 20, 2015 Supercomputing 15 Austin, TX, US

Other News

• QuintupleO Demo Video
• What’s Going On With Heat-Translator
• Meet AVOS: the analytics dashboard for your OpenStack cloud
• QEMU QCow2 built-in encryption: just say no. Deprecated now, to be deleted soon
• [Ceilometer] Gnocchi 1.0.0a1 released
• [Ironic] Announcing Bifrost

Got Answers?

Ask OpenStack is the go-to destination for OpenStack users. Interesting questions waiting for answers:

• is there planned support for destination ip as a load balancing method?
• Network connection leak in Keystone?
• read failed with input/output error on VolGroup
• How to use Opendaylight loadbalance app in OpenStack Neutron Lbaas?
• JJB looking for the postbuilders(maven project) config to set “Run only if build succeeds”
• Rally throwing errors for heat testing.
• Inserting additional status entries into nova.instance_actions?

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And ready to commit… oh, when was Feature Freeze again?

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Five years in: Charting the OpenStack galaxy

The Starship Enterprise had a five year mission, to “explore strange new worlds,” among other things, and as we approach the five year mark in our own mission, it’s fun to think about the worlds we’ve seen and contemplate where to go next. Did anyone think we’d have a non-profit foundation in year three, with VMware joining right after we started it? Strange new worlds, indeed.

Check out what’s under the hood at TryStack

Billed as the easiest way to try out OpenStack, this free service lets you test what the cloud can do for you, offering networking, storage, and compute instances, without having to go all in with your own hardware. Dan Radez, whose day job is at Red Hat, unveiled TryStack’s new gear in a lightning show-and-tell talk at the recent Mid-Cycle Ops Meetup.

The Road to Vancouver

• Sign up for OpenStack Upstream Training in Vancouver
• Superuser Awards Nominations Now Open
• Vancouver Summit Sponsorships Now Available
• Canada Visa Information
• Official Hotel Room Blocks
• Next batch of invites to Kilo contributors will be sent after a new milestone is released

Relevant Conversations

• Call for mentors – Upstream Training, Outreachy (former OPW)
• Stepping out of the way
• readout from Philly Operators Meetup
• Avoiding regression in project governance
• Microversions. And why do we need API extensions for new API functionality?

Deadlines and Development Priorities

• [nova] Kilo FeatureFreeze is March 19th, FeatureProposalFreeze has happened
• [cinder] Kilo Deadlines need to have a CI by end of K-3, March 19th 2015
• [cinder] Proposals for Liberty Summit
• [sahara] Design summit proposals for Liberty Summit
• [oslo] must-fix bugs for final kilo releases
• Log Working Group priorities

Security Advisories and Notices

• Nova console Cross-Site WebSocket hijacking (CVE-2015-0259)
• [OSSN 0045] Vulnerable clients allow a TLS protocol downgrade (FREAK)

Reports from Previous Events

• March 2 Board of Directors Meeting
• OpenStack Mid-Cycle meetup, day one roundup
• OpenStack Mid-Cycle meetup, day two roundup
• Takeaways from OpenStack’s Mid-Cycle Ops Meetup: A little more conversation, a little more action
• [horizon] Kilo angular virtual sprint

Tips ‘n Tricks

• By Lars Kellogg-Stedman: Diagnosing problems with an OpenStack deployment
• By Doug Hellmann: Deploying Nested ZNC Services with Ansible
• By Gabriel Samfira: Windows + Open Compute + MAAS = ♥
• By Matthias Runge: Testing Horizon git snapshots
• By Russell Bryant: The Different Facets of OpenStack HA
• By Emilien Macchi: Writing a new OpenStack Puppet module

Upcoming Events

OpenStack @ PyCon 2015: Booth info, looking for volunteers, posting of jobs, OpenStack presentations

• Mar 14, 2015 Meetup event in Intel
• Mar 16 – 17, 2015 OpenStack Workshop ,Bangalore, Karnataka, IN
• Mar 16 – 17, 2015 OpenStack Workshop at PESIT
• Mar 17, 2015 OpenStack Munich Meetup Munich, Bavaria, DE
• Mar 17, 2015 Disrupting Vendor Clouds Stanford, CA, US
• Mar 17, 2015 HP Helion Technical Session Boston, MA, US
• Mar 17, 2015 OpenStack München Meetup – Lets talk about Storage
• Mar 18 – 19, 2015 Introduction to OpenDaylight: Current Events and OpenStack Neutron Integration
• Mar 19 – 20, 2015 Keystone and External Authentication Implementation
• Mar 19 – 20, 2015 OpenStack Baltimore Meetup #3
• Mar 19 – 20, 2015 OpenStack networking – Neutron deep dive with PLUMgrid
• Mar 20 – 21, 2015 March Sydney Hackathon – Tentative Date
• Mar 20, 2015 SFBay OpenStack Hackathon #OSSFO
• Mar 22 – 23, 2015 OpenStack Workshop, Pune, Bangalore, Karnataka, IN
• Mar 22 – 23, 2015 OpenStack Workshop at SICSR, Pune
• Mar 24, 2015 OpenStack Malaysia 2nd Meetup Damansara, Kuala Lumpur, MY
• Mar 26, 2015 PDX OpenStack Hackathon Portland, OR, US
• Mar 26, 2015 #CloudBeerStockholm Stockholm, SE
• Mar 26, 2015 OpenStack L.A. March Meetup Pasadena, CA, US
• Mar 31, 2015 Ceph Day Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands, NL
• Mar 31, 2015 OpenStack: fueled and containerized Rome, IT
• Apr 01, 2015 OpenStack Meetup DFW Frisco, Texas, US
• Apr 03 – 06, 2015 ISCC2015 Ariana, Ariana, TN
• Apr 08 – 16, 2015 PyCon 2015 Montreal, Quebec, CA
• Apr 13 – 14, 2015 OpenStack Live Santa Clara, CA, US
• Apr 13 – 16, 2015 StackAttack! A HOLatCollaborate15 Las Vegas, NV, US
• Apr 15, 2015 iX OpenStack Tag Köln, NRW, DE
• Apr 16 – 18, 2015 Open Cloud 2015 Beijing, Beijing, CN
• Apr 21 – 22, 2015 CONNECT 2015 Melbourne, Victoria, AU
• Apr 22 – 23, 2015 China SDNNFV Conference Beijing, CN
• Apr 22, 2015 OpenStack NYC Meetup New York, NY, US
• Apr 23, 2015 OpenStack Philadelphia Meetup Philadelphia, PA, US
• May 05 – 07, 2015 CeBIT AU 2015 Sydney, NSW, AU
• May 18 – 22, 2015 OpenStack Summit May 2015 Vancouver, BC
• Jun 11, 2015 OpenStack DACH Day 2015 Berlin, DE
• Jul 20 – 24, 2015 OSCON 2015 Portland, OR, US
• Aug 10 – 13, 2015 Gartner Catalyst Conference San Diego, CA, US
• Sep 17, 2015 OpenStack Benelux Conference 2015 Bussum, NL
• Oct 04 – 08, 2015 Gartner SymposiumITxpo Orlando, FL, US
• Nov 15 – 20, 2015 Supercomputing 15 Austin, TX, US

Other News

• OpenStack 2014.1.4 released
• glance_store release 0.1.12
• [OpenStackClient] OSC release 1.0.3
• Announcing Gertty 1.1.0
• Second Release of Magnum
• Superuser Reader app for Android available now
• Welcoming oslo.policy into the OpenStack Oslo family
• Pass the Mic User Spotlight: Jeremy Stanley, OpenStack Infrastructure Team
• OpenStack and the Balance Between Independence and Compatibility
• How to Take the CI/CD Plunge or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love OpenStack — Q&A
• Xen Project Now an Easy Option in OpenStack

Got Answers?

Ask OpenStack is the go-to destination for OpenStack users. Interesting questions waiting for answers:

• I accidentally deleted nova-cert service. How can I rebuild it?
• ImportError: No module named auth.identity
• Ceilometer: How to get metrics from SDN controllers
• Why the BufferedHttpResponse stops proceeding requests?
• Why does Openstack Swift PUT requests are blocked by eventlet.green.httplib?
• Using Openstack alarms

OpenStack Reactions

After taking one day off the mailing list …

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OpenStack User Groups get a new home

It’s easy to stay in touch with OpenStack birds-of-a-feather wherever you are, from India to Italy, with the new OpenStack User Groups portal. Even with events all over the globe, it’s super simple to stay current — join a group, and you’ll be notified of new events when they’re created.

The facets of the OpenStack integrated release

Thierry Carrez looks into the various meanings the “integrated release” ended up having in our history, and see how we can better convey that information through separate tags.

DefCore Process 9 Point Graphic balances Community, Vendor, Goverance

Rob Hirschfeld has been working on the OpenStack DefCore process for nearly 3 years and he recognizes that the number #1 challenge of the effort remains how to explain it simply. The DefCore team has nevertheless managed to boil it down into nine key points.

The Road to Vancouver

• Sign up for OpenStack Upstream Training in Vancouver
• Superuser Awards Nominations Now Open
• Vancouver Summit Sponsorships Now Available
• Canada Visa Information
• Official Hotel Room Blocks
• Next batch of invites to Kilo contributors will be sent after a new milestone is released

Relevant Conversations

• OpenStack options for visually impaired contributors
• creating a unified developer reference manual
• Call for mentors – Upstream Training, Outreachy (former OPW)
• An alternative view of OpenStack, or how to encourage innovation by getting out of the way
• Gerrit tooling improvements
• [nova] blueprint about multiple workers supported in nova-scheduler
• Magnum – OpenStack Containers Service
• Microversions. And why do we need API extensions for new API functionality?

Deadlines and Development Priorities

• [cinder] Kilo Deadlines need to have a CI by end of K-3, March 19th 2015
• [nova] List of all Feature Freeze Exception requests
• [cinder] Proposals for Liberty Summit
• Outcome of the nova FFE meeting for Kilo

Security Advisories and Notices

• [OSSN 0044] Older versions of noVNC allow session theft

Tips ‘n Tricks

• By Adam Young: Keystone Federation via mod_lookup_identity redux and Convince Nova to Use the V3 version of the API
• By Boris Pavlovic: Rally as an OpenStack performance dashboard
• By Nir Yechiel: SR-IOV Networking – Part I: Understanding the Basics
• By Ben Nemec: IPMI Controller for OpenStack Instances
• By John Eckersberg: Improving HA Failures with TCP Timeouts
• By Swapnil Kulkarni: Rally in a Containter : A reference implementation similar to TCup

Upcoming Events

The 2015 events plan is now available on the Global Events Calendar wiki.

• Mar 11 – 12, 2015 Cloud Expo Europe London, GB
• Mar 11, 2015 Philadelphia OpenStack Meetup Philadelphia, PA, US
• Mar 12, 2015 OpenStack NYC Meetup New York, NY, US
• Mar 12, 2015 Ceph Day San Francisco San Francisco, California, US
• Mar 17, 2015 OpenStack Munich Meetup Munich, Bavaria, DE
• Mar 26, 2015 PDX OpenStack Hackathon Portland, OR, US
• Mar 26, 2015 #CloudBeerStockholm Stockholm, SE
• Mar 31, 2015 Ceph Day Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands, NL
• Apr 01, 2015 OpenStack Meetup DFW Frisco, Texas, US
• Apr 08 – 16, 2015 PyCon 2015 Montreal, Quebec, CA
• Apr 13 – 14, 2015 OpenStack Live Santa Clara, CA, US
• Apr 15, 2015 iX OpenStack Tag Köln, NRW, DE
• Apr 21 – 22, 2015 CONNECT 2015 Melbourne, Victoria, AU
• Apr 22 – 23, 2015 China SDNNFV Conference Beijing, CN
• Apr 22, 2015 OpenStack NYC Meetup New York, NY, US
• Apr 23, 2015 OpenStack Philadelphia Meetup Philadelphia, PA, US
• May 05 – 07, 2015 CeBIT AU 2015 Sydney, NSW, AU
• May 18 – 22, 2015 OpenStack Summit May 2015 Vancouver, BC
• Jun 11, 2015 OpenStack DACH Day 2015 Berlin, DE
• Jul 20 – 24, 2015 OSCON 2015 Portland, OR, US
• Aug 10 – 13, 2015 Gartner Catalyst Conference San Diego, CA, US
• Sep 17, 2015 OpenStack Benelux Conference 2015 Bussum, NL
• Oct 04 – 08, 2015 Gartner SymposiumITxpo Orlando, FL, US
• Nov 15 – 20, 2015 Supercomputing 15 Austin, TX, US

Other News

• Why OpenStack’s drive for inclusivity matters
• python-glanceclient release 0.16.1

Got Answers?

Ask OpenStack is the go-to destination for OpenStack users. Interesting questions waiting for answers:

• How neutron calculates new routing path
• Ceilometer filter by user_id (or username)

OpenStack Reactions

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The weekly newsletter is a way for the community to learn about all the various activities occurring on a weekly basis. If you would like to add content to a weekly update or have an idea about this newsletter, please leave a comment.