OpenStack Events at OSCON & Discounted Passes

 

June 28, 2012

We have quite a few activities planned for OSCON to celebrate OpenStack’s second birthday.  Kicking off with the first OpenStack Day, Tuesday July 17, there will be lots of OpenStack speakers, events and community members in attendance.

Please note, in order to attend OpenStack Day, your OSCON pass must include Tuesday. *OpenStack community members may save 20% on any OSCON pass using the discount code: OPENSTACK.*

In addition to OpenStack Day, we will have a big presence in the Expo Hall with the first OpenStack Pavilion (booth #426) sponsored by Calxeda, CSS Corp, DreamHost, Mirantis, Morphlabs, NetApp, Piston Cloud, Rackspace and Ubuntu supported by Canonical.

On Wednesday, July 18, there will be a meetup from 7-9 pm directly across from the convention center at Spirit of 77 to discuss the OpenStack Foundation.  Immediately after the meetup, from 9-11 pm, we will officially celebrate OpenStack’s 2nd birthday!  We’ll have food, drinks, cake, games and limited edition OpenStack t-shirts. Please RSVP to attend the meetup and after party, as space is limited.

If you are interested in sponsoring the OpenStack booth, evening event and t-shirts at OSCON, there are still opportunities available, but the absolute deadline is Monday, July 2. Please Contact [email protected] to participate!

Schedule of Events
Monday, July 16
– Getting Started with OpenStack Workshop, 1:30 – 5:00 pm

Tuesday, July 17
– OpenStack Day, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

Wednesday, July 18
– OpenStack Pavilion @ OSCON Expo Hall
– OpenStack Meetup & Party, 7:00 – 11:00 pm, Spirit of 77

Thursday, July 19
*OpenStack Pavilion @ OSCON Expo Hall

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (June 15-22)

 

June 22, 2012

Highlights of the week

OpenStack Summit coming October 15th-19th to San Diego, CA

Mark your calendar October 15th-19th in San Diego, California with more of everything: 4 days of Design Summit, 2 full days of conference content, more devops time, more workshops. One registration system.No invitation required for Design Summit tracks and no cap (limited only by facility capacity). One name for the weeks’ activities: “OpenStack Summit” with designated rooms for Design Summit & various Conference topics. More details.

OpenStack Nova, Glance, Keystone and Horizon 2012.1.1 released

The bugfixes contained in this release were backported from the development branches into a stable branch. The release is intended to be a relatively risk free update with no intentional regressions or API changes.

Performance metrics

An interesting discussion on how to do performance analysis on OpenStack.

Cinder status update

Cinder is the new project intended to separate block storage out of Nova and provide it via it’s own service. The goal is to have a functional replacement for Nova-Volumes by Folsom 2. What to expect and what’s in progress in the status update by John Griffith.

Thoughts on client library releasing

The community is trying to figure out how to release client libraries. No consensus yet and therefore no decision: your opinion is appreciated.

Upcoming Events

Other news

Welcome new contributors

Celebrating the first patches submitted this week by:

  • Martin Packman, Canonical
  • Sascha Peilicke, Suse
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OpenStack Summit coming October 15th-19th to San Diego, CA

 

June 19, 2012

This morning we had an online meeting to discuss the plans for the next Summit.  The presentation is embedded below, as is the meeting recording. Key points:

  • Dates:  October 15th-19th – Mark your calendars! (Friday the 19th will be an optional charity event to benefit a local charity)
  • Location:  San Diego, CA
  • Format:  More of everything!  4 days of Design Summit, 2 full days of conference content, more workshops, more devops time.  We have more rooms to facilitate more discussions in parallel across 4 days (Monday-Thursday)
  • One registration system. No invitation required for Design Summit tracks and no cap (limited only by facility capacity).
  • One name for the weeks’ activities: “OpenStack Summit” with designated rooms for Design Summit & various Conference topics.
  • Registration:  Coming soon.  Follow @openstack on twitter and this blog for updates.  There will be early bird pricing so please check back often!  There will be discounted rooms available at the hotel, so look for that information when you register.
  • Sponsorships:  Prospectus coming soon.  Email [email protected] with questions.
OpenStack Summit Fall 2012

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Meeting recording:

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (June 8-15)

 

June 15, 2012

OpenStack Community Newsletter — June 15

Highlights of the week

Announcing OpenStack Asia/Pacific Conference 2012

The OpenStack Asia/Pacific community is hosting a large OpenStack conference on August 10th and 11th, with a main venue in Bejing and a remote participation in Shanghai, hosted by the Chinese OpenStack User Group (COSUG) and CSDN, supervised by CSIP.

Companies interested in sponsorship opportunities in the area can browse the sponsorship prospectus and pick the best options for their budget.

Speakers are welcome to submit their speaking proposal, also in English. If you want to help with the organization of the event you can still join the OpenStack APEC community group.

Meeting To Discuss Next OpenStack Conference And Summit

All people interested in the next OpenStack Summit and Conference, especially former sponsors and coordinators of tracks in past events, are invited to register for the meeting OpenStack Summit & Conference Fall 2012 Planning,  next Tuesday, June 19 at 10:00 AM CDT. It will be the right time and place to discuss the challenges faced as the events have grown, and potential changes to the format to address them going forward.

LVM disks support in OpenStack Nova Folsom

GridDynamics implemented LVM disk support functionality (based on previous work for Diablo) and successfully delivered it to upstream.

New LVM image backend can be enabled by setting libvirt_images_type flag to value lvm.For more information on this functionality you can consult the blueprint and review code changes here.

swift.common.client library and swift CLI moved to a new home

In order to improve code manageability and consistency across all OpenStack projects, swift.common.client and the bin/swift CLI moved to a separate repository https://github.com/openstack/python-swiftclient

This should be compatible with swift.common.client with only difference being to import swiftclient instead of importing swift.common.client. Send bugs/feature request under the swift project in launchpad https://bugs.launchpad.net/swift/+filebug using the tag python-swiftclient.

Keystone v3 API draft (update and questions to the community)

Joe Heck reporting on the progress for the new API and asking feedback to the community. Join the discussion on Keystone v3 API draft.

Call for testing : nova, glance, keystone and horizon 2012.1.1 tarballs

Mark McLoughlin is ready to release an update to OpenStack Stable branch with over 60 bug fixes since the release in April.

Welcome RHEL/CentOS/Fedora to docland!

Anne Gentle pushed a couple of changes to the docs landing page and added a brand new install/deploy guide for RHEL, CentOS, and Fedora. Comments are now enabled by default on each page and there are now two guides to install OpenStack from scratch: one for Debian/Ubuntu systems (apt) and one for RedHat/Fedora/CentOS (yum).

Upcoming Events

Other news

Welcome new contributors

Celebrating the first patches submitted this week by:

  • Boris Filippov, GridDynamics
  • Eric Harney
  • Deevi Lalitha, Persistent Systems
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Meeting To Discuss Next OpenStack Conference And Summit

 

June 14, 2012

It’s never too late to get started, especially with a complex series of event like the OpenStack Summit and Conference. We’ve received the results of the survey after the past event in April in San Francisco and we want to keep the conversation open with the community.

All people interested in the next OpenStack Summit and Conference, especially former sponsors and coordinators of tracks in past events, are invited to register for the meeting OpenStack Summit & Conference Fall 2012 Planning,  next Tuesday, June 19 at 10:00 AM CDT. It will be the right time and place to discuss the challenges faced as the events have grown, and potential changes to the format to address them going forward.

Update: read the results of this meeting on OpenStack Summit coming October 15th-19th to San Diego, CA

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Announcing OpenStack Asia/Pacific Conference 2012

 

June 13, 2012

We talked about during the community sessions at past OpenStack Design Summit, we’re now ready to announce it officially: the Asia/Pacific community is hosting a large OpenStack conference. Mark your calendar: August 10th and 11th, with a main venue in Bejing and a remote participation in Shanghai, hosted by the Chinese OpenStack User Group (COSUG) and CSDN, supervised by CSIP.

OpenStack developers and companies building products based on OpenStack from Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation will meet to present their solutions and to plan ways of working together on promoting OpenStack in local enterprises and industries.

There is still space available to sponsor the event: thousands of users from the region are expected. Interested companies can browse the sponsorship prospectus and pick the best options for their budget.

Speakers are welcome to submit their speaking proposal, also in English.

If you want to help with the organization of the event you can still join the OpenStack APEC community group. You can also follow: @CSDN and @CSDN Cloud Computing for updates in Chinese.

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OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (June 1-8)

 

June 8, 2012

OpenStack Community Newsletter — June 8

Highlights of the week

The results of Bug Triage Day are in

Nova has more bugs than all the other core projects combined, and the most slack to clean up. We went from 237 “New” bugs at the beginning of the day and down to 42, a completion rate of 82%. In the mean time we managed to close permanently 86 open bugs over a total of 627 [more, with charts]

Zuul: a Pipelining Trunk Gating System

The OpenStack Infra team has released a new tool to improve the trunk gating system. Zuul is a program that performs speculative execution of tests.  By constructing a virtual queue of changes based on the order of their approval, it runs jobs in parallel assuming they will all be successful.  If any of them fail, then any jobs that were run based on the assumption they succeeded are re-run without the problematic changes included.  This means that in the best case, as many changes can be tested and merged in parallel as computing resources will allow for testing.  And of course, with cloud computing, that isn’t much of a hurdle.

OpenStack Blog Authors Code Of Conduct

With the current number of authors on the community blog there is a need to have a clear understanding of what it means to have an account on such visible community asset. There is always time to send your comments.

A good list of opportunites for Industry Conferences & Sponsorship

And the next OpenStack Conference and Summit on October 16-20 (destination TBD).

Recent changes to wiki

  • Quantum V2 APIIntro quick intro to v.2.0 API for Quantum developers already familiar with the v1.0 and v1.1 API
  • StartingPage now showing a new video every month
  • Quantum Starter Bugs These are bugs that folks new to Quantum might want to pick off as an introduction

New version of gerrit – with new features!

Based on the new upstream version 2.4, but in addition we’ve landed two additional features on top of that – so there’s tons of new toys to play with.

Forking an OpenStack project to remotely save changes

Find on this thread the answer to the question: If you have a relatively long-lived topic branch, what’s the best way to remotely save changes?

Reports from past OpenStack events

Upcoming Events

 Other news

Welcome new contributors

Celebrating the first patches submitted this week by:

  • Zhiteng Huang, Intel
  • Vincent Untz, Suse

 
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OpenStack Blog Authors Code Of Conduct

 

June 7, 2012

With the current number of authors on the community blog I think it’s a good idea to make sure we all have a clear understanding of what it means to have an account on such visible community asset. I think it would be good for the whole community to have a brief, clear, understandable code of conduct for all existing authors and for the future ones. We discussed on our community team and we came up with the OpenStack Blog Authors Code Of Conduct below.  We’ll publish this together with other community policies (like the OpenStack Event policy) in the next days: add your comments below or send them to the community team.

OpenStack.org Blog is the asset owned by the community and a platform where to share thoughts, ideas, reports and news about OpenStack. All the authors of blog posts have the responsibility to respect this common space while being grateful for the opportunity it represents. As a writer you should write articles respecting other’s opinions, even if you disagree. The OpenStack Community will benefit from sharing, debating and reflecting rather than discounting and disparaging others’ thoughts. Remember that as an author of OpenStack.org blog, the community trusts you to give voice to the community as a whole.

Writers accept these simple principles:

  • Prefer facts to opinions: be always aware that what you publish will be read by thousands of people and that your opinion is not necessarily that of the whole community. Try to stick to facts, like reporting the result of a meeting, announcing upcoming community events, describing technical achievements.
  • Disclose, don’t promote: it’s good to let people know that a company is contributing to OpenStack, sponsoring an event and such but the OpenStack.org Blog is not the place to publish a company’s press release or other type of commercial offering message.
  • Contribute to the commons: our blog is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike version 3 unported. Pay attention to the license of any material you add to the blog, make sure it’s released under compatible terms.

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OpenStack in action 2! – Production ready / Paris, 31 May 2012

 

June 5, 2012

Last Thursday, we held the «OpenStack in action 2 ! – Production ready» event in Paris. For this second edition, we were very happy to welcome more than 150 people who came from France, Spain, the UK, the Netherlands, Austria, and even…Japan ! This shows how OpenStack is getting bigger and more concrete every day.

Following an «almost traditional» opening by Thierry Carrez, Release Manager for OpenStack, Loic Dachary, eNovance Chief Research officer, presented a very intuitive OpenStack live demo. The idea was to make an online game go worldwide through a deployment demo. The game is very cool to play by the way, you can give it a try here: MIOP game.

Nick Barcet, representing Ubuntu/Canonical, who is also a regular guest, talked about MAAS and Juju to deploy an Ubuntu Cloud infrastructure. Nick also announced our recent partnership : eNovance is now the official Canonical partner to deliver OpenStack based solutions in France!

Here at eNovance, this 2nd edition of «OpenStack in action!» will remain a very important date for us since we launched the same day eNocloud – the 1st European OpenStack cloud, which was in beta for the last 9 months. Raphaël Ferreira, eNovance’s CEO explained how eNocloud was built, step by step, and related the use cases of our most famous beta-testers: Soasta, Fasterize and the CNES.

After a short coffee break, Taco Scargo, from Dell talked about Crowbar and announced the release of Copper – an experimental yet very promising ARM server.

He was followed by Rick Clark who highlighted the most challenging problems OpenStack currently faces. His perspective as a co-founder of the project and his successful deployment of OpenStack for the US Department of Defense for CISCO gave the audience an exclusive peak at one of the largest use case in the world. His unbiased and provocative style made for a chaotic and humorous talk.

Florian Haas, CEO of Hastexo, closed the conference and really captured his audience whis his talk on High Availability in OpenStack. He explained how the Folsom release that will be published in october 2012 will benefit from the various HA strategies demonstrated.

We wanted to address our special thanks to Canonical and Dell for helping us make the event possible: we look forward to the 3rd edition of «OpenStack in action!» that will be held this autumn.

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OpenStack Essex Deploy Day Summary

 

On May 31st, more than 200 people from around the world  gathered to learn about how to automate OpenStack deployments with Dell Crowbar and Opscode Chef. This day-long, world-wide event brought  together developers, operators, users, ecosystem vendors and the open source cloud curious.  The event was coordinated as meet-ups by the Dell OpenStack/Crowbar team (my team) in four physical locations, where more than 70 enthusiasts gathered for the event:

In addition, nearly 125 participants joined online on the live webcast and various online channels.

We have validated our deployment against the Essex release and our objective with this Essex Deploy Day event was to test deployments of Open Stack in a variety of environments.  Accordingly, we reached out to the OpenStack and Crowbar communities for training, testing, deployment, and collaborative development of the OpenStack Essex release.  The response was amazing!

The Deploy day offered two parallel tracks for OpenStack newcomers and experts.

The Introductory Track: In this  track, we focused on basics of OpenStack, Crowbar, and DevOps and discussed their value and benefits. In five three-hour sessions that spanned  three time zones covering the East/West coast and the Asia pacific regions, we demonstrated  LIVE (the recorded sessions are available here: http://bit.ly/crowbarOSED) ) how to automatically deploy OpenStack .

Here are the slides used for this track:

http://www.slideshare.net/kamesh001/essex-deployday

Additionally, this track featured presentations and demos from ecosystem partners including enStratus, InkTank, Suse, MorphLabs, and OpsCode who discussed how they are leveraging Essex and bringing unique value-add to the OpenStack community and customers.

The Experts Track: The expert track was intended for people that already had some familiarity with Crowbar, Chef, and DevOps, and wanted to take a deep dive into new features of OpenStack Essex and Crowbar and how Crowbar works under the hood. The expert track had a separate screencast, and featured live and online collaboration with Crowbar developers and engineers.

The expert track explored  several advanced topics such as upgrading OpenStack  and developing barclamps etc.

Success By the Numbers

The overwhelming response and the large number of attendees makes this the most successful deploy day by far.  The breadth of companies and individuals that participated makes this a truly collaborative and international event  and is an  impressive indication of the excitement that is building around OpenStack. Here is look at broad participation metrics:

  • 200 people participated from 9 different countries
  • 70 people attended in-person in the four locations: NY, Boston, Austin, Sunnyvale
  • 250 downloads of the software from zehicle.crowbar.com and the build server
  • 20+ companies represented world-wide
  • Great participation from ecosystem vendors including enStratus, MorphLabs, Suse, InkTank, OpsCode

Here is a just a small sample of some of the companies that participated

Dell (sponsor), Opscode, Mirantis, Morphlabs, Enstratus, Yahoo, AT&T, HP, OpenTV, cloudTP, Fidelity, Lucent-Alcatel, IBM Labs, Critical Media,  AppFirst

We wish to thank everyone who participated in making this event a huge success!

 

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