OpenStack Delhi NCR User Group chapter started this past weekend and Syed Armani has blogged about it at http://syedarmani.blogspot.in/
Thank to Syed for initiating the group and providing the venue and local organisation, and thanks to Kavit, Aptira‘s Head of Indian Operations for co-organising and sponsoring food and beverages.
OpenStack Foundation Board – Gold Member Election Update 2012 ElectionsRecently the gold member formation committee met to discuss the election of directors for the gold members and agreed on the mechanics and timing of our election. Gold Members will be holding the election using cumulative voting the week before the individual member elections. More http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/foundation/2012-August/001061.html Openstack Networking for Scalability and Multi-tenancy with VlanManagerSecond post by Mirantis about OpenStack networking, using VlanManager. While flat managers are designed for simple, small scale deployments, VlanManager is a good choice for large scale internal clouds and public clouds. Can OpenStack Swift Hit Amazon S3 like Cost Points?Amar Kapadia tries to answer the question whether a user creating cloud storage with OpenStack Swift can sell it to internal or external users at a price competitive to Amazon S3. Should You Consider SSDs for OpenStack Swift Cloud Storage?Zmanda folks started publishing a series of blog posts investigating pros and cons of using SSD-based Swift installations. With an ongoing move in the industry to move towards building data centers with SSD based storage, there has been a lot of interest in the OpenStack Swift community to consider the faster I/O devices when deploying Swift based storage cloud, such as the discussions in [1], [2] and [3]. Swift 1.6.0 ReleaseThe changes highlighted by the team: the bin/swift CLI client and swift/common/client.py have been moved to the new python-swiftclient OpenStack project; Swift now includes the Keystone middleware “keystoneauth”; the swift-dispersion-report now works with a replica count other than three. Full announcement. Congratulations to the team for Swift’s new release, v. 1.6.0 and welcome to the five new Swift developers: François Charlier, Iryoung Jeong, Tsuyuzaki Kota, Dan Prince, Vincent Untz. OpenStack Nova, Glance and Keystone 2012.1.2 releasedIn the time since the Essex release, the stable release team has been busy selectively back-porting bugfixes to the stable/essex branch according to the “safe source of high-impact fixes” criteria http://wiki.openstack.org/StableBranch. These releases are bugfix updates to Essex and are intended to be relatively risk free with no intentional regressions or API changes. Cloud computing and storage with OpenStackIBM’s DeveloperWorks published an introductory article about OpenStack and IaaS in general. |
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OpenStack Foundation Board – 2012 Election CandidatesSee the current list of nominees for the OpenStack Foundation 2012 Board Member Elections who have received at least one nomination. A candidate must receive at least 10 nominations to appear on the ballot. Any active member of the OpenStack Foundation can support a nominee or nominate a new candidate http://www.openstack.org/community/openstack-foundation-board-2012-election-candidates/. A candidate must receive at least 10 nominations to appear on the ballot and must be a member of the Foundation. The final day to nominate a candidate is Monday August 6, 2012. Rostyslav Slipetskyy’s Thesis on OpenStack securityThis is a pretty awesome bit of work done by a researcher in Denmark. I enjoyed reading it and I highly recommend it as day 1 reading for Infosec professionals and researchers getting into OpenStack. Slides and you can download the full thesis (PDF). API Stability StatementIt is critical to the success of OpenStack that operators be willing to upgrade to new OpenStack releases. All OpenStack APIs use a versioning scheme that is completely independent from the named releases (Essex, Folsom, etc.). One obstacle to upgrading to a new OpenStack release is if there are incompatible API changes that could cause user applications to stop working. Operators want great new features and APIs to be the only aspect of the upgrade process visible to their users. Old API versions should continue to work. More on http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Approved/APIStability OpenStack PPB defined “Supporting Project”There is a new category of OpenStack projects in addition to Core, Incubated, Library and Gating projects: “Supporting projects”. The initial list of projects in this category is available on the wiki, with more details: http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Accepted/SupportingProjectDefinition. OpenStack Security PrimerMatt Joyce introduction to security and OpenStack. He’s maintaining the blog http://secstack.org, now available also on http://planet.openstack.org. Tips and tricks |
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A couple of upcoming Australian OpenStack User Group (AOSUG) events I want to tell everyone about…
Hobart August 17 – OpenStack Chef and Puppet Code Dojo, the day before PyConAU!
PyCon Australia is the national conference for users of the Python Programming Language and is being held this year on August 18 and 19. This third PyConAU conference is being held in the beautiful city of Hobart in Tasmania. There’s a fantastic weekend lined up, including two days of fun and informative sessions on every aspect of the Python ecosystem. There’s also exciting social events planned, including the CodeWars programming tournament, the Women in Python breakfast and a conference dinner cruise and reception at Peppermint Bay.
PyConAU Registration is here.
On the preceding Friday the 17th we’re holding an OpenStack Code Dojo featuring Chef and Puppet. Special Guests for morning talks (live via satellite, well sorta, I’ve just always wanted to say that), will be Matt Ray from Opscode and Dan Bode from Puppetlabs. This will be followed by an afternoon code dojo specifically geared around creating, managing and versioning virtual machines. Food and drinks will be provided, my thanks to David Flanders, the PyConAU team and NeCTAR for their help organising this. Aptira will be throwing on the beverages for an after party of sorts! To participate in the day please go to the aosug.openstack.org.au site and RSVP.
Adelaide August 28 – Meetup
In conjunction with SAGE-AU and many thanks to Robert Mibus for the invitation, we’re inviting South Australian OzStackers to join the regular Adelaide chapter of SAGE-AU’s monthly meeting in Adelaide on August 28. Numbers for this event are limited so if you’re an SA OzStacker please jump onto http://aosug.openstack.org.au and RSVP to reserve your spot.
September events are planned for Melbourne and Sydney, and Brisbane in October.
Anyway that’s all from me for now, hope you all have a great Friday.
Today OpenStack marks another milestone in its young existence: Rackspace has announced its full deployment and general availability to all the customers of the public cloud powered by OpenStack. While Rackspace has been running OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) for over 2 years, they are now running OpenStack Compute (Nova) at full scale, too. Congrats!
Jack McCarthy at CRN has a nice overview of the launch on Rackspace Moves OpenStack Product Lineup To Public Cloud while the Quentin Hardy on NYT blog Looking For Mutual Enemies In The Cloud focuses on the competitive landscape. Timothy Prickett Morgan on The Register talks about the history of Rackspace cloud offering, showing all the goodies included in today’s launch Rackspace wolfs down own OpenStack dog food.
Today is another great step for OpenStack. Kudos to the team at Rackspace!
Join The OpenStack FoundationThe OpenStack community has worked hard since the announcement of intention to establish an OpenStack Foundation in October 2011. We’ve come to the point where Individual Members can join and begin making important contributions like nominating board members: http://openstack.org/join (It’s free!) OpenStack Foundation Board – 2012 Election CandidatesSee the current list of nominees for the OpenStack Foundation 2012 Board Member Elections who have received at least one nomination. A candidate must receive at least 10 nominations to appear on the ballot. Any active member of the OpenStack Foundation can support a nominee at the links below or nominate a new candidate by emailing [email protected] (the acting secretary is Jonathan Bryce). A candidate must receive at least 10 nominations to appear on the ballot. The final day to nominate a candidate is August 6, 2012. Creating a development cycle that is more user friendlyFollowing recent discussions about increasing the involvement of users in the development of OpenStack, a new thread started. Your opinion is appreciated. A review of the 1st London OpenStack MeetupThe report by Daniel P. Berrangé about a fabulous night, with views across London via the open air roof terrace, watered with pizza & drinks and warm weather in London. Daniel’s talk is available also as podcast on Cloud Evangelist blog. Weekly Hyper-V meeting on Freenode/#openstack-hyper-vAnyone interested in bringing back support for Hyper-V in Nova is invited to join the new OpenStack-Hyper-V team. Tips and tricks
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Join The OpenStack FoundationThe OpenStack community has worked hard since the announcement of intention to establish an OpenStack Foundation in October 2011. We’ve come to the point where Individual Members can join and begin making important contributions like nominating board members: http://openstack.org/join (It’s free!) TryStack.org Adds New ARM Technology-Powered ZoneA monumental day in ARM server history! TryStack.org, the hosted cloud sandbox for OpenStack, now has an ARM-based OpenStack zone in addition to the x86 zone. (This is, to our knowledge, the first OpenStack cluster made publicly available on an ARM-based system!)  Full room at OpenStackDay during OSCON 2012 Tips and tricks |
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We’re excited to announce that we’ve reached a huge milestone in the process to establish the OpenStack Foundation. Individual Members can now join and begin making important contributions like nominating board members: http://openstack.org/join (It’s free!)
Thanks to the hard work of the drafting committee (led by the amazing Alice King), we now have a complete set of legal documents. Our Bylaws, with appendices, and Member agreements are now posted online on http://www.openstack.org/legal/.
As a community we’ve really pulled together, made some tough decisions, and I couldn’t be prouder of the result. It’s hard to believe, but OpenStack just started 2 years ago (with the first release of software, the “Austin” release, in October 2010). OpenStack seems to have struck a chord, and I think the core values of our community have everything to do with it. We’ve taken great care to preserve and promote those core values. Everyone should be extremely proud!
On Tuesday the fine folks at OSCON put on an amazing “OpenStack Day”, and last night those who were lucky to be attending OSCON gathered together to discuss the Foundation progress and start signing up as individual members. It was quite an amazing feeling to see so many familiar faces, but also meet so many new people interested in OpenStack.
Individual contributors, here are steps you can now take to secure representation in the OpenStack Foundation:
To provide more context, the following is a full list of key dates and milestones through the formation of the Foundation:
Thank you so much to everyone who helped us reach this milestone!
Mark Collier
Today is a monumental day in ARM server history! TryStack.org, the hosted cloud sandbox for OpenStack, now has an ARM-based OpenStack zone in addition to the x86 zone. (This is, to our knowledge, the first OpenStack cluster made publicly available on an ARM-based system!)
For those of you not familiar with TryStack, it’s a community maintained OpenStack cloud made possible by the donations of a handful of IT hardware and service providers. This new zone is free by the generous contributions from Calxeda, Canonical, CoreNAP and HP.
So what’s the big deal? Besides providing free access to ARM-based servers via the OpenStack APIs, today is a first step in demonstrating a concept I talked about in a blog posted last May:
“People are pretty baffled when we use the words “Cloud” and “ARM” in the same sentence. Understandably so. But let me explain for a minute a possible future in which those two words become extremely synergistic. Intoday’s cloud architectures, virtualization is used as a means to provide elasticity, dynamic workload management, and multi-tenant security, all while sharing the same underlying physical systems (which tend to be very large servers). What if, however, we took an opposite approach and were able to provide the same benefits through the use of many smaller servers – a phrase some have coined as physicalization. Suddenly, we move back to a model of dedicated hosting and guaranteed performance, but with the same on-demand access and cloud-based pricing customers are accustomed to. As long as the end-user gets access to a compute resource, and the economics of the infrastructure make sense for the cloud provider, this could ultimately be a win-win for the future of cloud computing.”
While we are currently standing up a separate OpenStack cluster for this new ARM zone, we have every intention of working with the TryStack volunteers to merge these into a single large, heterogeneous cluster. We want to use OpenStack as the first example of what a multi-architecture cloud could look like and the opportunities it presents to both service providers (different pricing models) and enterprises (workload targeted job scheduling) alike.
Oh, and did I mention it’s free? Yep – completely 100% free for you to try, but please do keep in mind that your compute instances will be wiped every 24 hours and reclaimed for others to use. It’s simple to get started. Join the TryStack group on Facebook and you’ll instantly have access to the original x86-based cluster. To get access to the ARM-based cluster, look for instructions inside the Facebook group to request access specifically to the new zone. (We’re working on streamlining this process and hope to have Facebook single sign-on integration soon.) Once accepted, you’ll have logincredentials to the OpenStack dashboard where you can launch a new instance of Ubuntu 12.04 just like you would with any other cloud platforms.
So jump on in and come try it out! And if you’re interested in helping out, we’re always looking for a few extra hands – find us on the TryStack Facebook group. We look forward to continuing our working relationship with the OpenStack community on shaping the future of cloud computing!
John Mao
Product Marketing
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G stands for GrizzlyResults of the naming poll for next OpenStack release are in, and the G release will be named “Grizzly“. The regular poll selected “Gazelle” (35 votes), with “Gilroy” (27 votes) being a close second. But the Grizzly revolt poll showed overwhelming support for the “Grizzly” name (88 votes) rather than going with the results of the regular poll (46 votes). The Waldon exception (accepting elements of the state/country flag in addition to city/county names) will be added to our naming rules for future naming contests 🙂 Some clarifications about CinderWith the promotion of Cinder to OpenStack core project, Cinder’s PTL John Griffith explained what the project does and what the future release, Grizzly, may look like. OpenStack operators are invited to give their opinion and help developers take the best decision. Lots Of OpenStack At OSCON 2012Only a few days to OSCON: find the full list of talks related to OpenStack and don’t forget to RSVP fort the OpenStack Party at Spirit of 77 (500 NE MLK Blvd.) on July 18th. OpenStack Summit Fall 2012: Tickets & Sponsorships now availableThe OpenStack Summit is coming to San Diego October 15th-18th at the Manchester Grand Hyatt . Check out the new Summit website to learn more, buy tickets, or to become a sponsor. The early bird price for tickets is $400 until August 31st, then it goes up to $600, so please buy your ticket now! Everybody is invited to participate, there are no caps like in past events (the only limit is the physical capacity of the location). OpenStack Overview – Operational Details of a Large Python ProjectPádraig Brady spoke at EuroPython 2012 about OpenStack. His talk was recorded (audio starts at minute 11:40). Tips and tricks
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