At the Essex conference summit this past month, we presented a session on OpenStack Essex architecture. As a part of that workshop we visually demonstrated the request flow for provisioning a VM and went over Essex arthicture. There was a lot of interest in this material; it’s now posted in Slideshare: Recap of the request flow… Read more »
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I hear the Essex Train a-coming
With Essex train in the wilds of testing, and the Essex release intended date less than 10 days away, we are pretty excited about everyone descending on San Francisco — practically our home town — for the Design Summit and Conference. Here at Mirantis, the company famous across OpenStack community for distributing vodka bottles at… Read more »
OpenStack Sydney Meetup Special Event with James Williams
Last Friday February 24 at the Harbour View Hotel in Sydney the Australian OpenStack User Group had a special meetup with James Williams, CIO of NASA AMES Research Centre. For those not in the know James and AMES had a key role in the establishment of Nebula and OpenStack. Last week we heard James was… Read more »
Under the hood of Swift: the Ring
This is the first post in series that summarizes our analysis of Swift architecture. We’ve tried to highlight some points that are not clear enough in the official documentation. Our primary base was an in-depth look into the source code. The following material applies to version 1.4.6 of Swift. The Ring is the vital part… Read more »
OpenStack Jenkins dashboard available for testing Ubuntu snapshots
The keener eyed of you may have noticed: https://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com/view/Precise%20OpenStack%20Testing/ James Page has setup the jobs in the Ubuntu OpenStack QA Lab to start publishing to the public Jenkins QA instance this morning. We now have automated build testing of all core OpenStack components triggered from upstream trunk commits. This is followed by automated deployment (-deploy)… Read more »
Great Turnout at the first Austin OpenStack Meetup
. Last Thursday, a number of us Austin OpenStack fans decided to get together and talk OpenStack, Diablo, Crowbar, and more. We had a fantastic turnout of almost SEVENTY people who came out that night – almost at near capacity for our venue, Tech Ranch Austin. A number of startups where represented, as well as… Read more »
OpenStack Birthday Videos (continued)
More participating companies celebrating OpenStack’s first birthday. MemSet 1 Year Birthday OSCON from OpenStack on Vimeo. Cybera OpenStack 1 Year Birthday from OpenStack on Vimeo. Zadara Storage Happy Birthday to OpenStack at OSCON from OpenStack on Vimeo.
OpenStack Day in London Recap
On Wednesday we held an OpenStack Day in London — the first for our community in Europe. It’s very obvious we should have done this much sooner. We never know how many people to expect at these events, and had planned for 125 or so. In the end, about 350 people attended. The catering held… Read more »
OpenStack Conference and Design Summit Spring 2011 Overview Video
The final overview video from the recent OpenStack event is now available for your viewing pleasure. This is an excellent video with TONS of OpenStack community members from around the world talking about the project and community. OS Event Recap Spring 2011 from OpenStack on Vimeo.
OpenStack Conference and Design Summit – Day 4 Recap
I am on my way home from San Jose writing this final event recap blog in the clouds… Thanks again to approximately 480 enthusiastic OpenStack community members for an amazing 4 days of interactive and productive sessions, meetings, and demonstrations. The community continues to accelerate forward at a rapid pace in a highly collaborative environment… Read more »