Here’s what RDO engineers have been writing about in the last week. If you’re writing about RDO, or about OpenStack on CentOS, Fedora or RHEL, and you’re not on my list, please let me know! Three Flavours of Infrastructure Cloud, by Zane Bitter A curious notion that seems to be doing the rounds of the OpenStack traps at the moment… Read more →
The Fedora Project has released Fedora 21 today, and it includes two images of interest to RDO users who want have the latest and greatest Fedora to run in their cloud. The Fedora Project, as part of the Fedora.Next initiative, decided to pursue three sesparate release variants – cloud, server, and workstation. Of special interest to RDO users, the Cloud… Read more →
Here’s the blog posts that came out of the RDO community last two weeks. Last week, I was in Budapest at ApacheCon Europe, and so missed doing this post. If you’re writing about RDO, or about OpenStack on CentOS, Fedora or RHEL, and you’re not on my list, please let me know! Delivering Public Cloud Functionality in OpenStack, by John… Read more →
With OpenStack embracing the Tooz library more and more over the past year, I think it’s a good start to write a bit about it. A bit of history A little more than year ago, with my colleague Yassine Lamgarchal and others at eNovance, we investigated on how to solve a problem often encountered inside OpenStack: synchronization of multiple distributed… Read more →
Here’s the blog posts that came out of the RDO community last two weeks. Last week, I was at OpenStack Summit, and missed doing this post. If you’re writing about RDO, or about OpenStack on CentOS, Fedora or RHEL, and you’re not on my list, please let me know! Hiding unnecessary complexity, by Flavio Percoco How deep does someone need… Read more →
Today, eNovance by Red Hat is releasing the first beta version of the Software Factory project. Software Factory is an open source, integrated agile development platform that provides integrated tools for collaborative software development. Greatly inspired by StackForge, the collaborative platform used to manage contributions to OpenStack, Software Factory replicates its OpenStack development process to help organizations deliver high quality… Read more →
We’re pleased to announce the availability of RDO packages for OpenStack Juno, for EL7 (RHEL7 and CentOS7) and Fedora 20. Fedora 21 is still in development and running RDO Juno on Fedora 21 is not recommended at this time. A separate announcement will be made when RDO Juno on Fedora 21 is ready. You can get started with RDO Juno… Read more →
Here’s the blog posts that came out of the RDO community last week. If you’re writing about RDO, or about OpenStack on CentOS, Fedora or RHEL, and you’re not on my list, please let me know! Building Docker images with Puppet by Lars Kellogg-Stedman I like Docker, but I’m not a huge fan of using shell scripts for complex system… Read more →
Puppet is a key component in server deployment and configuration automation. When nodes successfully get provisioned by a Puppet master they retrieve all sorts of data, some which might be both confidentials and criticals. It is then mandatory to ensure that only authorized instances or nodes are allowed to retrieve such data. In today elastic systems and cloud era, it… Read more →
Here’s the blog posts that came out of the RDO community last week. If you’re writing about RDO, or about OpenStack on CentOS, Fedora or RHEL, and you’re not on my list, please let me know! Who can sign for what? by Adam Young In my last post, I discussed how to extract the signing information out of a token…. Read more →
Here’s the blog posts that came out of the RDO community last week. If you’re writing about RDO, or about OpenStack on CentOS, Fedora or RHEL, and you’re not on my list, please let me know! libvirt blockcommit: shorten disk image chain by live merging the current active disk content by Kashyap Chamarthy When using QCOW2-based external snapshots, it is… Read more →
Here’s the blog posts that came out of the RDO community last week. If you’re writing about RDO, or about OpenStack on CentOS, Fedora or RHEL, and you’re not on my list, please let me know! Wherein our hero attempts to build his own OpenStack Keystone RPMs, by Adam Young I have a Devstack setup. I’ve hacked the Keystone repo… Read more →
Here’s the blog posts that came out of the RDO community last week. If you’re writing about RDO, or about OpenStack on CentOS, Fedora or RHEL, and you’re not on my list, please let me know! Zaqar’s path going forward, by Flavio Percoco Long time since I wrote my last post about Zaqar (ex Marconi) and I thought this one… Read more →
With the exhaustion of IPv4 addresses, IPv6 is no longer a choice but is now a necessity, even more so in case of a cloud environment. Neutron includes a sub-team focused on bringing parity between IPv4 and IPv6 features and to enhance IPv6 support in OpenStack. The group currently meets every Tuesday at 15:00 UTC in #openstack-meeting-alt with notes available… Read more →
Here’s the blog posts that came out of the RDO community last week. If you’re writing about RDO, or about OpenStack on CentOS, Fedora or RHEL, and you’re not on my list, please let me know! bvirt: default network conflicts (not anymore), by Kashyap Chamarthy Increasingly there’s a need for libvirt networking to work inside a virtual machine that is… Read more →