Short-term issues with forum
Hi all, We’re having one or two issues with the forum related to an upgrade of Vanilla, which will be sorted out shortly. Apologies for any inconvenience! Thanks, Dave.
Using Heat to deploy OpenStack
At the recent OpenStack Summit in Portland, Oregon there were a number of excellent presentations on technologies we ship in RDO. One of the more exciting ones was this presentation on using Heat to automate application deployment of OpenStack on OpenStack (the TripleO project), by Clint Byrnum from HP. From the talk description: How different are servers from VMs? Do… Read more →
RDO in the news
Since launching on April 15th, RDO has garnered a lot of attention – both in press and in blogs and podcasts. Here’s a review of what’s been happening in the RDO world. Podcast: RDO at the OpenStack Summit In Portland during the OpenStack Summit Dave Neary sat down with Richard Morrell of Red hat to record a podcast, covering questions… Read more →
Keystone and PKI Tokens
PKI tokens has been implemented in keystone by Adam Young and others and was shipped for the OpenStack grizlly release. It is available since the version 2.0 API of keystone. PKI is a beautiful acronym to Public-key infrastructure which according to wikipedia defines it like this : Public-key cryptography is a cryptographic technique that enables users to securely communicate on… Read more →
How to revoke a token with keystone and PKI (v2.0 API)
This is something I have been asked and I was at first under impression it was only available in v3, digging a bit more into the code there is actually a way to do that in v2 when you are using PKI tokens. Since I could not find much documentation online here is a description of the steps how to… Read more →
eNovance at devopsdays Paris
eNovance was present at the first edition of DevopsDays Paris. The even was held at MAS in the 13th arrondissement and spread over 2 days. Here’s a brief summary of our experience. What’s devops? Funnily enough, there doesn’t seem to be a consensus around the definition of a devops. This seems to be intentional since the community carefully refuses to… Read more →
OpenStack Havana Design Summit in Portland – Day 4
After an intensive week, it’s good to see that the last day was quite with PTL (Project Technical Lead) sessions which inform people about the roadmap for Havana release (which will be delivered next September). Heat session : Updates in Havana parallel resource creation further improve OpenStack Networking support Rolling updates Support for new/extended template language Add autoscaling API… Read more →
OpenStack Havana Design Summit in Portland – Day 3
That day was important for eNovance since we led 3 sessions : How much for an Openstack Cloud please? That’s it! You’re ready! You know everything there is to know about OpenStack. It’s architecture, features and a bunch of other cool stuff. But finally: How much does an OpenStack Cloud cost? During this talk, Raphael showed the work on two real… Read more →
OpenStack Havana Design Summit in Portland – Day 2
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OpenStack Havana Design Summit in Portland – Day 1
OpenStack Havana Design started this morning, and eNovance team is here to attend it. First of all, I was not surprised by the huge number of newcomers at the Summit since the community has grown so fast. For the first time, eNovance has a booth to present what we are doing. Thanks to Raphael (CEO & Co-founder), we have great… Read more →
Announcing RDO
Today, we are releasing OpenStack Grizzly packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 and clones, and Fedora 18. And to help you make the most of OpenStack, we’ve created this site so you can: Connect with fellow OpenStack users on the community forums; Get started with the latest OpenStack project software, packaged and ready to use on Red Hat Enterprise… Read more →
Puppet modules for Ceph finally landed!
Quite recently François Charlier and I worked together on the Puppet modules for Ceph on behalf of our employer eNovance. In fact, François started to work on them last summer, back then he achieved the Monitor manifests. So basically, we worked on the OSD manifest. Modules are in pretty good shape thus we thought it was important to communicate to the community…. Read more →
Swift and quotas in upcoming 1.8.0 (Grizzly) release.
There is two new nifty middlewares for doing quotas in upcoming Swift release 1.8.0 called container_quotas and account_quotas. Those are two different middlewares because they are actually addressing different use cases. container_quotas is typically used by end users the use case here is to let user to specify a limit on one of their container. Why would you want to… Read more →
What's new in OpenStack Grizzly ?
Introduction “G” release is the next stable version of OpenStack which is going to be released the 4th April 2013. For remind us, Folsom brought us two new core projects : Quantum (Networking) and Cinder (Volumes). Two new projects have been incubated : Ceilometer (metering) led by Nicolas Barcet (VP Products at eNovance), and Heat (Cloud Orchestration). Oslo is a… Read more →
Upload to OpenStack Swift via CORS/HTML5 request.
One of our client at eNovance had a need to be able to upload to Swift directly from a web browser without going via a PHP proxy. Things in browser-land are not exactly the same as what we have in user-land, it is a bit more restricted to ensure the end-user security and there is a few hoops to… Read more →