Report: November month OpenStack meetup, India

 

November 27, 2012

In India we  organized two meetups in month of November. On was held in New Delhi and another one in Bangalore.

 

OpenStack meetup, Delhi, November 17, 2012  http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/90700582/

The event was attended by over 25 people with different background start-up/students/researchers/MNC/Developers

Kavit Munshi spoke on Keystone and did a demo of same.

Syed Armani spoke about Nova internal and Quantum.

Satyakaam Goswami did a devstack demo.

Thanks to the Faculty of Engineering, Jamia Millia Islamia for the venue.

OpenStack meetup, Bangalore, November 25, 2012 http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/90021782/

The event was attended over 50 people with different background start-up/students/researchers/MNC/Developers. We had great discussion over all along with the presentations and demo.

Divyanshu Verma spoke and did demo of Crowbar an orchestration tool for OpenStack.

Kavit Munshi spoke about the optimization of nova and KVM.

Srinivasa Acharya spoke the folsom to grizzly road map.

Photos for the event are http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/photos/11898552/

Thanks to DELL R&D, Bangalore for hosting this meetup. Last not the least Pizza and Drinks were sponsored jointly by Aptira and NetApp.

Slides of all our meetups will be posted on http://slideshare.net/openstackindia and we are also on twitter with http://twitter.com/openstackindia

 

 

 

Australian OpenStack UG – Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane Tri-City Meetup 20/11/12

 

November 22, 2012

This past Tuesday night saw the Australian OpenStack User Group produce a tri-city simultaneous user group meeting covering Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Hooked together by GoToMeeting provided by Dan Pendlebury at Citrix, the evening saw OpenStack, pizza and beer served up at Intersect’s offices in Sydney, Haylix’s offices in Melbourne and Red Hat’s offices in Brisbane.

We believe this may have been the first multi city meetup where 3 way video linked the sites together, and we also had some attendees join us remotely.

Hosted by Tristan Goode from Aptira in Sydney, speakers were:

  • Sina Sadeghi, Lead Cloud Engineer from Aptira, who reviewed the recent Folsom Summit and presented his insightful views on the path to Grizzly.

We then crossed to Melbourne and heard from:

Lastly we transferred the main video feed to Brisbane to hear from:

The evening wasn’t without some minor hitches that we’ll work out for next time, but all in all it was deemed a success and a great way to get OpenStack out to more people more efficiently.

My sincere thanks to our presenters, and to our sponsors

Most importantly, I’d like to give a very special and long overdue thank you to Katrina Clauscen who has been behind the planning of nearly every AOSUG event we’ve had in every capital city in Australia since we began over a year ago.

Our next event is an OpenStack miniconf to be held at Linux Conf AU (LCA) on January 29 and to date we have more than 140 people who have registered their interest to attend. LCA is a world renowned conference with a wealth of great technical content and this is the first appearance of OpenStack at LCA.
We are looking for presentations on:

  • The core projects of the OpenStack project
  • Getting started using OpenStack
  • Uses in scientific computing and the enterprise
  • What it means to be part of OpenStack
  • Automation in the virtual datacenter
  • The past, present and future of OpenStack

Please go to http://bit.ly/Waue30 to submit your proposal. The CFP has just been extended to Sunday December 2.

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OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Nov 9-16)

 

November 16, 2012

Highlights of the week

OpenStack Outreach Program for Women Accepting Candidates

OpenStack provides open source software for building public and private clouds. We are constantly moving and growing and very excited to invite newcomers to our community. To this end, the OpenStack Foundation has joined the GNOME Outreach Program for Women. Join the list of mentors, contribute ideas, apply as intern.

What’s new in libvirt for the OpenStack Nova Folsom release

Even if Folsom has been out for a while now, Daniel P. Berrangé provided a little more detail on some of the changes he was involved with making to the libvirt driver and what motivated them.

Why to refactor the virt disk API in Nova

When launching a virtual machine, Nova has the ability to inject various files into the disk image immediately prior to boot up. Nova runs as an unprivileged user, and the guest files to be changed are typically owned as root. This means all the file injection commands need to run via Nova’s rootwrap utility to gain root privileges. It should come as little surprise that this has already resulted in a security vulnerability / CVE against Nova. The solution to this class of security problems is to decouple the file injection code from the host filesystem. Read more on Daniel’s blog post.

Swift 1.7.5 Released

Swift 1.7.5 has been released. This release is the work of twenty-seven contributors and includes several important new features and bug fixes.

Making keystoneclient python library a little easier to work with

A quick guide to using the python keystoneclient library and some of its new features, with v2 API examples throughout.

Installing OpenStack Nova Compute on Hyper-V

A lot of work went on OpenStack and Hyper-V integration, with the result of bringing back Hyper-V in the Nova sources in time for the Folsom release. Get started with OpenStack and Hyper-V using the installer developed by Cloudbase Solutions.

Security Advisories

Tips and tricks

Upcoming Events

Other news

Foundation News

Welcome new contributors

Celebrating the first patches submitted this month by:

  • Hendrik Volkmer, Cloudbau
  • Andrew Bogott, Wikimedia Foundation
  • Tim Daly, Jr, Yahoo! Inc
  • Darren Worrall

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OpenStack Outreach Program for Women Accepting Candidates

 

OpenStack provides open source software for building public and private clouds. We are constantly moving and growing and very excited to invite newcomers to our community. To this end, the OpenStack Foundation has joined the GNOME Outreach Program for Women.

The Women in OpenStack group has already found some mentors for the program and ideas for projects are flowing in. Each internship requires $5,000. We have funding from Rackspace and Red Hat for two participants, and the Foundation is also sponsoring one intern. More funding is welcomed.

Interns are expected to spend 40 hours a week on the project and applicants may not have ever worked on FLOSS before.

Schedule

The program starts in November 2012 and the results of the internships will be ready by Spring 2013 OpenStack Summit.

  • November 14: program announced and application form made available
  • November 14 – December 3: applicants need to get in touch with at least one project and make a contribution to it
  • December 3: application deadline
  • December 11: accepted participants announced
  • January 2 – April 2: internship period
  • April 2013: OpenStack Summit

Five Outreach Program for Women interns from previous rounds – Liansu, Christy, Meg, Tamara, and Barbara – created this cartoon to explain the application process!

If you have a pet project and want to mentor new women members of OpenStack community please contact Stefano Maffulli or Anne Gentle, add your ideas to the wiki page, and discuss on the openstack-dev mailing list.

If you know of students who would be interested in these internship opportunities, help us spread the word by linking to this post and our wiki page about the program.

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A lot of OpenStack events worldwide before 2012 ends

 

November 13, 2012

The list of OpenStack events in 2012 is still growing towards another record year. Before the supposed end of the world, we’ll have the chance to meet in Zürich, Delhi and other cities in India, Melbourne and other Australian cities, Tel Aviv, various places in China, Paris and London. The full list as of today is below but I wouldn’t be surprised if more will appear on the events page in the next days.

Experts at NASA say the world will not end in 2012, though, so we’re already preparing for the 2013 events.

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OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Nov 2-9)

 

November 9, 2012

Highlights of the week

The future of Incubation and Core

Incubation is currently an OpenStack project status that grants a promising project more access to OpenStack shared resources, especially in the CI, release management and QA space. The level of maturity reached by OpenStack requires revising the concept of ‘Core project’ and the incubation process. Join the discussion and help the Technical Committee form an opinion for the Foundation’s Board.

OpenStack Keystone plans for the Grizzly release

Joe Heck published the plans for Keystone over the Grizzly release cycle. To read after going through the state of the project slides.

OpenStack Image Service – Grizzly Planning

The primary objective of Glance is to publish a catalog of virtual machine images. Rather than own users’ image data, Glance simply tracks where that data resides. Glance owns the metadata provided by users. Brian Waldon summarizes the plans for Glance over the Grizzly release cycle.

FOSDEM 2013: Cloud Devroom – Call for Participation

The organizers of the Cloud devroom at FOSDEM 2012 invite you to submit a session proposal. The purpose of this devroom is to serve as a meeting point for cloud infrastructure projects, including a unique opportunity for discussion and collaboration between developers from different projects. This devroom will be focused on open source cloud infrastructure projects.

Call For Presentations at Linux.Conf Australia – OpenStack MiniConf day

Being held in January in Canberra, Australia, linux.conf.au is one of the foremost open source conferences in the world, and is considered the most prestigious in the southern hemisphere. Linux.conf.au’s first ever OpenStack miniconf day is being held Jan 29, and the Call for Presentations is now open.

Security Advisors

Tips and tricks

Upcoming Events

Other news

Welcome new contributors

Celebrating the first patches submitted this month by:

  • Yuan Zhou, Intel
  • Nicolas Simonds, Metacloud
  • Rushi Agrawal
  • Malini Bhandaru, Intel

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OpenStack At Cloud Expo 2012 West

 

November 5, 2012

The OpenStack Foundation is the proud Diamond Sponsor of Cloud Expo 2012 West! If you’re in California for the event this week, please join the Foundation and the many members of the  OpenStack Community in attendance. If you can’t make it, follow the developments via twitter and of course follow openstack on twitter for general OpenStack information.

Already this morning, we’ve seen some big OpenStack news, including two announcements from RightScale regarding their sponsorship of the OpenStack Foundation and their partnership with Rackspace, and the acquisition of OpenStack supporter Vyatta by another recent OpenStack supporter (and Foundation Sponsor), Brocade. We also have some big OpenStack users speaking at the Summit this week, including Cisco WebEx, eBay and PayPal.  As the conference continues, I’m sure there will be other interesting developments.

Below you’ll find a list of OpenStack sessions to attend, and don’t forget to visit the OpenStack booth to learn how your organization can plan and implement successful, effective cloud environments.

You can also visit openstack.org/start to get started down your own OpenStack path today, and openstack.org/join to join the Foundation.

Monday, November 5

Opening Keynote: Open Cloud – Place Your Bets!

  • Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director, OpenStack Foundation 12:30-1:15pm, General Session Room – Ballroom A-H

Case Study Session: Open Cloud at PayPal

  • Saran Mandair, Sr. Director, and Anand Palanisamy, Architect/Technical Lead, Infrastructure Engineering, PayPal 2:10-2:55pm, General Session Room – Ballroom A-H

Conversation, demo and information

  • OpenStack and Community representatives
Welcome reception, Expo Hall, OpenStack Booth #603; 10:00am-12:30pm and 3:00-6:00pm

Tuesday, November 6

OpenStack Folsom demo

  • Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director, OpenStack Foundation Demo theater, Expo Hall booth #853; 11:00-11:20am

Conversation, demo and information

  • OpenStack and Community representatives
Expo Hall, OpenStack Booth #603; 10:00am-12:30pm and 3:00-6:00pm

Wednesday, November 7

General Session: Powered by OpenStack User Panel

  • Panelists from Cisco WebEx, eBay and PayPal, moderated by Chris C. Kemp, CEO, Nebula 11:45am-12:30pm, General Session Room – Ballroom A-H

Breakout Session: Making Money in the OpenStack Ecosystem

  • Boris Renski, Co-founder and COO, Mirantis 2:10-2:55pm, Room M1

Conversation, demo and information

  • OpenStack and Community representatives
 Expo Hall, OpenStack Booth #603; 10:00am-12:30pm and 3:00-6:00pm

Thursday, November 8

Conversation, demo and information

  • OpenStack and Community representatives
Expo Hall, OpenStack Booth #603; 10:00am-12:00pm and 2:30-5:00pm

OpenStack Community At Cloud Expo 2012 West

Please attend these sessions from the OpenStack Community!

Sessions by OpenStack members, sponsors and supporters Akamai, AT&T, Broadcom, ComputeNext, Dell, enStratus, HP, Intel, New Relic, Nimbula, OW2, Red Hat, SoftLayer, SUSE, UShareSoft, VMware, and Vyatta are also scheduled.

Keynote: The Ever Changing Cloud

Lew Tucker, Cisco; Thursday November 8, 9:05-9:50, General Session room

How Private PaaS Can Take You From Code To Cloud In 45 Minutes

Diane Mueller, ActiveState; Wednesday November 7, 2:10-2:55pm, Lafayette room (Hyatt)

Elastic Cloud Infrastructure: Why the Enterprise Wants It

Troy Angrignon, Cloudscaling; Thursday November 8, 1:40-2:25pm, Room M2

OpenStack Momentum: Adopters Speak Up

Mike Fountaine, Dell and Bennett Bauer, DreamHost; Wednesday November 7, 2:10-2:55pm, Stevens Creek room (Hyatt)

CEO Power Panel: There’s No Business Like the Cloud & Big Data Business!

Chris C. Kemp, Nebula, Inc.; Tuesday November 6, 7:00-7:30pm, General Session room Interacting with a Cloud

Gabriel Hurley, Nebula, Inc.; Tuesday November 6, 6:10-6:55pm, Room M1

Beyond the Hype: Understanding Cloud Security for Your Application
Bryan D. Payne, Nebula, Inc.; Wednesday November 7, 5:10-5:55pm, General Session room

Cloud Application Black Magic

Wayne Walls, Rackspace; Monday November 5, 2:10-2:55pm, Lafayette room (Hyatt)

This is Your Career. This is Your Career on OpenStack

Niki Acosta, Rackspace; Monday November 5, 4:25-5:05pm, Room M1

Scaling the Cloud

Brian Jawalka, Rackspace, Monday November 5, 5:10-5:55pm, Lafayette room (Hyatt)

Keynote: An Open Cloud Discussion

John Engates, Rackspace; Tuesday November 6, 9:05-9:50am, General Session room

Network Virtualization – Amplifying the Power of Cloud Computing

James Meredith, Rackspace; Tuesday November 6, 2:10-2:55pm, Room M2

General Session: The IT Talent Shift – Preparing Your Enterprise IT Talent for the Cloud

Lisa Larson, Rackspace; Wednesday November 7, 9:55-10:40am, General Session room

Storage Performance in the Cloud

Nelson Nahum, Zadara Storage; Monday November 5, 5:10-5:55pm, Room M3

OpenStack In The Expo Hall

Please visit the following booths for more information on how the Community supports OpenStack software:

Platinum and Gold Members

AT&T 921

HP 421

Rackspace 301/309

Red Hat 509

SUSE 715

DreamHost 926

VMware 209

Supporters

ActiveState 1020

Akamai 514

Cloud Cruiser 829

Cloudscaling 922

New Relic 415

OW2 915

SoftLayer 201

Vyatta 609

Zadara Storage 732

 

Mark Collier

COO, OpenStack Foundation

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OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Oct 26-Nov 2)

 

November 2, 2012

Highlights of the week

Videos of OpenStack Summit Fall 2012 published

The Summit was packed with amazing content, including user stories from Cisco WebEx, Living Social and CERN, 100+ developer working sessions and two full days of workshops. We now have more than 80 videos ready to view from the keynotes and breakout presentations:

What did you like and how would you improve the OpenStack Summit?

We’re working hard to make each Summit better than the last. Please help us by taking this quick survey about your experience in San Diego by Friday, November 9.

Welcome StackMeat.org

Born from a personal itch by Márton Kiss, he contributed a central place where to find informations about existing projects of wider OpenStack ecosystem.

CloudEnvy – vagrant for OpenStack

What’s CloudEnvy? Joe Heck says it is “the most interesting illustration of CloudEnvy is using it to spin up an instance in a cloud, and then run devstack in that instance.”

EMEA OpenStack Day: Call For Speakers & Prospectus For Sponsors

EMEA OpenStack Day is happening Wednesday, December 5, 2012 in London. You can find out more details about the event on the OpenStack Day EventBrite page. Nominations are open for speaker presentations. The deadline for speaker submissions is November 9, 2012. The sponsor prospectus is now available online. There are five available event sponsor packages.

Multifactor Auth and Keystone

The topic of how to enforce multifactor authentication with Keystone tokens came up often during the Design Summit in San Diego. Adam Young wrote a summary of the discussions. Link to the blueprint.

PKI tokens and Horizon

With PKI, tokens have gone from 40 byte to 3000.  This plus additional payload in Horizon means that they no longer fit inside an HTTP cookie.  How do we deal with this?

Tips and tricks

Upcoming Events

Other news

Welcome new contributors

Celebrating the first patches submitted this month by:

Melanie Witt, Yahoo!

  • Matthias Runge, RedHat
  • long-wang, CS2C
  • Rainya Mosher, Rackspace
  • James Page, Ubuntu
  • Pedro Navarro Perez,
  • Gerardo Porras, Yahoo!
  • Guang-yee, HP
  • Davanum Srinivas
  • Sathish Nagappan, Nebula
  • galstrom21, Rackspace
  • David Kang, ISI
  • Andrea Rosa, HP
  • jking-6, Internap
  • sathish-nagappan, Nebula
  • Alex Handle
  • Dan Radez, RedHat
  • Michael H Wilson
  • Jolyon Brown
  • Derrick J. Wippler
  • boden, IBM

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EMEA OpenStack Day: Call For Speakers & Prospectus For Sponsors

 

October 30, 2012

EMEA OpenStack Day is happening Wednesday, December 5, 2012 in London. You can find out more details about the event on the OpenStack Day EventBrite page.

Would you like to speak at the EMEA OpenStack Day—Part 2?

We are now accepting nominations for speaker presentations. The deadline for speaker submissions is November 9, 2012. A selection committee will review the submissions and notify those selected by November 23rd. You can present your presentation topic and speaker bio to [email protected].

Would you like to sponsor EMEA OpenStack Day?

The sponsor prospectus is now available online. There are five available event sponsor packages.

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Oct 19-26)

 

October 26, 2012

Highlights of the week

More coverage of OpenStack Summit

We’ve all been catching some air this week, it seems. Some more reports from the community:

Inside Synaps, a CloudWatch-like implementation for OpenStack

A few days ago, Samsung released the source code of Synaps, an implementation of the Amazon Web Service CloudWatch API for OpenStack. Julien Danjou, a contributor to the Ceilometer project, gives a look at this project and how it could overlap with Ceilometer or other projects like Heat.

Why OpenStack doesn’t need a Linus Torvalds

As comparing OpenStack with Linux becomes an increasingly popular exercise, it’s only natural that people and press articles start to ask where the Linus of OpenStack is, or who the Linus of OpenStack should be. This assumes that technical leaders could somehow be appointed in OpenStack. This assumes that the single dictator model is somehow reproducible or even desirable. And this assumes that the current technical leadership in OpenStack is somehow lacking. Thierry Carrez thinks all those three assumptions are wrong.

Preauthorization in Keystone

Sometimes you need to authorize a service to perform an action on your behalf. Often, that action takes place long after any authentication token you can provide would have expired.  Currently, the only mechanism in Keystone that people can use is to share credentials. Adam Young argues: We can do better.

New wiki page: Software Development Kits

SDKs are a vital part of any ecosystem and we need to start treating them as such in OpenStack. To do so we need to raise the profile and legitimacy of SDKs that support OpenStack.

Heat version 7 released

Heat allows you to launch AWS CloudFormation templates on OpenStack. CloudFormation is a programmable interface and templating system for orchestrating multiple cloud applications. This version adds an OpenStack-native ReST API.

Tips and tricks

Upcoming Events

Other news

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