{"id":4679,"date":"2013-07-16T11:15:12","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T16:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/?p=4679"},"modified":"2013-07-11T11:46:16","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T16:46:16","slug":"open-mic-spotlight-wayne-walls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/open-mic-spotlight-wayne-walls\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Mic Spotlight: Wayne Walls"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"pro-headshot03\"<\/a>This post is part of the OpenStack Open Mic series to spotlight the people who have helped make OpenStack successful as we celebrate the third birthday of the project. Each day in July, a new contributor will step up to the mic and answer five questions about OpenStack, cloud, careers and what they do for fun.<\/em><\/p>\n

Wayne Walls is a Cloud Architect at Rackspace, where he\u00a0evangelizes global cloud strategy. A\u00a0tenured technology\u00a0leader, Wayne has engineered complex technical solutions,\u00a0delivered\u00a0IT transformation plans, and implemented\u00a0multiple\u00a0training initiatives around cloud computing. Co-maintainer of the Rackspace Developer blog, Wayne is helping developers, engineers, and executives\u00a0understand\u00a0cloud technologies and how to turn that knowledge into tangible returns. He\u00a0holds a B.S. of Information\u00a0Systems and a B.A. of Economics from the University of Oklahoma. Follow him on Twitter at\u00a0@waynewalls<\/a>.\u00a0<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n

1. Describe an interesting OpenStack deployment that you were part of, and why others ought to know about it. What made that project work? Tick?<\/b><\/p>\n

Working at Rackspace gave me an interesting\u00a0opportunity; I was able\u00a0to work with OpenStack at a very early stage. \u00a0The first time I deployed OpenStack it was on the Austin release \u2013 the first OpenStack release – when Jordan Rinke<\/a> and I were\u00a0tasked with building an OpenStack cloud for the Bexar Design Summit in San Antonio. \u00a0If I recall correctly, Austin had\u00a0roughly\u00a01,000 lines of code and roughly five pages of documentation (compared to\u00a0the\u00a0now nearly 100,000 lines of code and\u00a0fantastic\u00a0wiki with\u00a0hundreds\u00a0of pages of helpful documentation\u00a0available\u00a0to newcomers \u2013 big props to Anne Gentle for helping the world OpenStack better). \u00a0After days of combing through the code to figure out what flags existed and what they did, we were able to stand up a six node cluster for the Friday “Deploy a Cloud” session. \u00a0Using QEMU, we were going to walk\u00a0conference\u00a0attendees\u00a0thorough\u00a0the\u00a0process of deploying OpenStack\u2026on OpenStack. \u00a0To make things even more interesting, Dell provided us a half-rack to deploy onto – a rack of prototype Dell C-series sleds running Ubuntu 10.04.<\/p>\n

In review, here are a couple\u00a0memories\u00a0from our deployment:<\/p>\n