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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OpenStack Summit Beach Clean Up

 

October 24, 2012

Last week at the OpenStack Summit, we organized the first OpenStack community service day, a beach cleanup with the Surfrider Foundation. We had nearly forty OpenStack community members volunteer their time Friday morning to help pick up trash from South Mission Beach, San Diego, as well as collect data for local environmental campaigns. We also learned about the types of litter making the biggest impact on our beaches–namely plastics and cigarette butts–and how we can reduce our consumption.

Our volunteers gathered a total of 43 pounds of debris from the beach: 35 pounds of trash and 8 pounds of recyclables. We collected more than 1,720 items, including:

  • Plastic Bags: 68
  • Plastic Bottles: 26
  • Plastic Bottle Caps: 86
  • Plastic Lids, Cups, Straws: 59
  • Plastic Utensils: 17
  • Plastic Food Wrappers: 295
  • Cigarette Butts: 221
  • Cigarette Lighters: 8
  • Fishing Gear: 28
  • Styrofoam: 127
  • Balloons: 12
  • Other Plastics: 222
  • Aluminum Cans: 34
  • Metal: 44
  • Glass Bottles: 7
  • Other Glass: 37
  • Paper: 201
  • Cloth: 75
  • Other: 153
  • Most Unusual Items: Nail clippers, PVC pipe, Glow stick, Medical Marijuana Bag
Thank you to DreamHost and SUSE for sponsoring the event, Dee Rosales and Marissa Rosen for organizing it, Simon Anderson for the great idea, and to all of the volunteers who came out!  We look forward to hosting another service day at the next Summit, so please be thinking of organizations or causes you’d like to support.

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Oct 12-19)

 

October 19, 2012

Highlights of the week

Coverage of OpenStack Summit

This was a busy week for all of OpenStack members. A few reports from the community:

Collaboration in Action: Weaving Proven Tech Into OpenStack’s Fabric

The story of OpenStack community’s collaboration at the Design Summit to make better clouds as told by Alex Glikson, leading a research group at IBM Haifa Research Lab.

OpenStack Document Translation Guide

OpenStack uses Transifex to manage translations. OpenStack Manuals are in DocBook format. We slice the documents into short statements, then use Transifex to manage the translation process, and finally converge the translated content into a new copy of DocBook, which will used to generate HTML and PDF versions. The easiest way to contribute to OpenStack is to start by translating the manuals. Getting started is super easy.

Tips and tricks

Upcoming Events

Other news

Soundtrack of the week

‘Cloud Anthem’ by Dope’n’Stack

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OpenStack Day, Bangalore, India

 

OpenStack Day one complete day on OpenStack as a parallel track was organized on 14th Oct in Bangalore at OSIDays event.

keystone

OpenStack developers/contributors across India participated and spoke/presented on various OpenStack components. The event was attended by over 60 enthusiastic people with different domains from entrepreneurs, start-ups, technology solution architects to students. Speakers covered most of the topics including Swift, Ceilometer, Quantum, Devstack, Keystone, HEAT, Juju & MaaS.

Slides of event can be found here. Photos of the event can be found here. We also had a open house discussion with how to contribute upstream as Syed Armani in beginning presented a session how to contribute to OpenStack project and the discussion turned into an exciting Q/A session.

I would specially like to thank Divyanshu Verma from DELL for helping us in getting the venue finalized and Kavit Munshi from Aptira for sponsoring lunch.  Also special thanks to the organizers of OSIdays for letting us use there venue for day long event/session on OpenStack. Thanks to Hardik we got lots of Ubuntu goodies as well to distribute during the event to our participants. 😀

We are looking forward to keep the momentum going, stay tuned for more exciting announcements soon. 🙂

Last but not the least DELL, HP, NetApps, RedHat others offered us venue for upcoming meetups which means arranging a venue is no more an issue to us for our monthly meetups. What we would also like to have is to get speakers from these participating organizations. 🙂

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Keynotes Recap from Day 2: OpenStack in Production

 

October 17, 2012

Photo by Colin McNamaraToday’s keynotes highlighted how OpenStack is being used in production and in large scale deployments. Keynote speakers for Day 3 of the summit were from event sponsors HP and Cisco, and from event organizer Rackspace.

Zorawar ‘Biri’ Singh, HP

Zorawar ‘Biri’ Singh, senior vice president and general manager for Cloud Services at HP, began the keynotes by showing how they’ve made OpenStack enterprise production ready. He outlined how HP has built a full featured enterprise cloud using OpenStack, and evaluated the readiness of distributed IT in production cloud workloads.

Singh’s big question was how to use OpenStack to drive more enterprise and service provider adoption. Singh wants to make more hybrid delivery happen, and believes the critical next stage is getting traditional production workloads into the cloud.

Singh was thrilled by the large amount of announcements and work being done on this during the summit. “A common cloud operating system model emerging, that is OpenStack,” he said. “At the end of the day the real measure is production workloads. We need to focus on web-scale grade production at a global level.”

HP is one of the larger contributors to OpenStack code, and is deeply involved in open source projects like Chef, Jenkins, Git, and others.

Troy Toman, Rackspace

Toman, senior director of engineering for Cloud Compute at Rackspace began his keynote by looking back at OpenStack’s beginning at Rackspace. Toman noted that the OpenStack community has stepped up and made broader and broader contributions each year. Toman was proud that the Rackspace contribution percentages have been steadily declining, from 54% of commits in Essex to 30% in Folsom. “We’ve got a bright future ahead of us,” Toman said.Image from @soosiechoi

Toman then showed how Rackspace runs on Openstack today, with Quantum/Melange, Nova, Glance, Swift, all in production. In addition, they are using OpenStack for continuous delivery by running trunk in production, and deploying every few weeks in less than an hour. Toman shared some impressive numbers from Rackspace’s private cloud Alamo which runs on OpenStack: 120 million API hits, 99.97% availability, even four downloads from Antarctica.

Looking ahead, Toman asked the community to work together to deliver on the OpenStack promise. Pointing to the many examples of OpenStack in production, Toman wants to shift our attention back to the community and to making the right decisions. “We have a core that we know is the right thing. So how do we continue to innovate?” Toman asked.

“We’re all in it for the same reason, we disagree on the means, but want the same ends.”

Reinhardt Quelle, Cisco WebEx

Reinhardt Quelle, operations architect at Cisco WebEx, finished the morning’s keynotes with an in-depth look at Cisco’s use of OpenStack.

What was a surprise to many was that Cisco’s Cloud services run WebEx and Cisco internal private cloud on OpenStack. Quelle explained why Cisco and OpenStack were a natural fit. Cisco has contributed to open source projects before like Jabber and the Apache Traffic Server, and wanted more flexibility and the ability to control their own cloud destiny, so to speak. With OpenStack, they get many options for support from both within Cisco and without, and the confidence of long term support.

Quelle explained how Cisco and WebEx have implemented Nova and Swift, as well as Nova Volumen and instance scheduling.

Quelle that Cisco product teams didn’t have to write everything themselves. They could draw on contributions from the OpenStack foundation, local meetup groups, public clouds, web forums and fellow users make it easier for them to use OpenStack and benefit from community experience and expertise.

Read the full case study here.

Notable

A common theme among the keynotes this morning was the need to hire more people to work on these problems. Executive Director Jonathan Bryce asked the audience in between keynotes how many attendee companies were hiring. Nearly everyone in the room raised their hand.

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