GRE tenant networks
Support for GRE tenant networks with Quantum/Neutron is now available in RDO! See http://rdoproject.org/Using_GRE_Tenant_Networks for details. Feedback is welcome (via this topic).
[package announce] openstack-packstack updated
Greetings, Packstack packages has been updated in RDO Grizzly and Havana repos to openstack-packstack-2013.1.1-0.24.dev660 (grizzly) and openstack-packstack-2013.2.1-0.2.dev702 (havana) %changelog Tue Aug 13 2013 Martin Mágr – 2013.1.1-0.24.dev660 ovs_use_veth=True is no longer required Allow tempest repo uri and revision configuration Update inifile module to support empty values %changelog Tue Aug 13 2013 Martin Mágr – 2013.2.1-0.2.dev702 ovs_use_veth=True is no longer required… Read more →
Flock starting tomorrow
Flock – http://flocktofedora.org/ – is starting tomorrow in Charlotte, SC. I’m going to be there, hoping to meet some of you, and talk about what you’re doing with OpenStack and RDO. Look for me – I’ll be wearing a red fedora and a red RDO shirt.
August newsletter, in case you missed it
Thanks for being part of the RDO community! July was a busy month, and we have a lot to tell you about. If you want to keep up with what’s going on with RDO in the coming month, the best way is to follow the RDO forum, at http://bit.ly/13YEwCe, or to follow us on Twitter at @rdocommunity If you’d like… Read more →
Yet another way to monitor OpenStack
The project For one year, I’ve been working on OpenStack deployments and the first thing I do after each of them is to setup monitoring. There is some interesting ways that you could read on Internet. One of them is from Mirantis and explains that you could monitor API with check_http method. In my opinion, that’s not enough to use… Read more →
Using legacy auth v1 with Keystone
Auth v1 is the first API used in OpenStack it was used by the fine folks at Rackspace for their cloud until the auth v2.0 (and v3.0) was developed and deployed with keystone for OpenStack services. There is still quite a few Swift tools using the auth v1 API and not ported to auth v2 and does not seems to… Read more →
Packstack updates (Aug 1, 2013)
There are two updates to packstack packages: Packstack package has been updated in RDO Grizzly EPEL6 repo to openstack-packstack-2013.1.1-0.22.dev653.el6. (Details at https://www.redhat.com/archives/rdo-list/2013-August/msg00002.html) Packstack package has been updated in RDO Havana EPEL6 repo to openstack-packstack-2013.2.1-0.1.dev691.el6. (Details at https://www.redhat.com/archives/rdo-list/2013-August/msg00003.html)
Role delegation in keystone: Trusts
This article introduces Keystone’s trusts mechanism and gives a quick example showing how to use a trust to access a swift container on behalf of another user. What are trusts ? As OpenStack’s identity service, Keystone deals with the problems of authentication (who am I ?) and authorization (what can I do ?). The trusts API adds delegation functionalities: by… Read more →
Puppet Labs packstack/RDO webinar, Tuesday, July 30, 11am PDT
Think it’s impossible to stand up an OpenStack cloud in 15 minutes? If you’re the betting kind, Red Hat software engineer, Derek Higgins, is ready to take your money. Derek created Packstack, an installation utility that uses Puppet modules to deploy OpenStack in three easy steps. Not convinced? Join Derek Higgins, Cody Herridges, and Chris Hoge for a free webinar… Read more →
Ceph for Cinder on RDO
Our friends in Inktank recently added a new page to the wiki documenting the process for enabling Ceph for block storage on RDO. This has been a popular request from RDO users in addition to the documentation and support for Gluster as a storage back-end. Let us know how it works!
Another day at OSCon
We’re starting another day at OSCon, at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon. It’s been a great week so far, with lots of great conversations with users, and potential users, of RDO. If you’re at the conference, please drop by and say hi. Or follow us on @RDOCommunity for periodic updates through the day.
RDO Havana repositories
There are now 4 separate Havana repositories available on RDO Trunk packages for Fedora and EL6 derivatives The current trunk package series, generated by http://smokestack.openstack.org/ with maximum lag of 1 hour from the latest trunk commit are available for Fedora and more recently EL6 based distributions. Please see the README or browse these repositories at: http://rdo.fedorapeople.org/openstack/openstack-trunk/ Standard Havana repositories for… Read more →
At OSCon
We’re at OSCon today, in the OpenStack pavilion. If you’re here, please drop by and say hi. We’ll be there all day.
How to use temporary urls with Swift
Swift has a middleware called tempurl that allow public access to objects. This feature can be useful when an account owner want to allow access for a foreign user to some objects of his account. A common usage when swift is used as storage backend in a web application is to built the temporary urls server side and let the browser communicate… Read more →
Announce: packstack updated
From the RDO-list mailing list (https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rdo-list) update: openstack-packstack-2013.1.1-0.20.dev642.el6 Wed Jul 10 2013 – Martin Mágr mmagr@redhat.com – 2013.1.1-0.20.dev642 Fixed provider network option (#976380) Made token_format configurable (#978853) Enable LVM snap autoextend (#975894) MariaDB support (#981116) Older releases: Tue Jun 18 2013 – Martin Mágr mmagr@redhat.com – 2013.1.1-0.19.dev632 Restart openstack-cinder-volume service (#975007) Wed Jun 12 2013 – Martin Mágr mmagr@redhat.com –… Read more →