A few weeks ago was the OpenStack Design Summit in Atlanta, GA where we, developers, discussed and designed the new OpenStack release (Juno) coming up. I’ve been there mainly to discuss Ceilometer upcoming developments. The summit has been great. It was my third OpenStack design summit, and the first one not being a PTL, meaning it was a largely more… Read more →
Six months have passed since Hong Kong and it is always really exciting to see all the folks from the community gathered all-together in a (bit chilly) convention center. As far I saw from the submitted and accepted talks, Ceph continues its road to the top. There is still a huge growing interest about Ceph. On tuesday May 13th, Josh… Read more →
There was a lot of interest in Swift during the Juno OpenStack Summit in Atlanta and sessions and workshops were very well attended. More than 30 sessions were directly or indirectly related to Swift, its use cases and discussion on the past, current and future development of Swift. Thanks to all the awesome people who are developing and using Swift… Read more →
This is a repost of the blog posted on Thursday May 22nd 2014 on Wired Innovations Insights Last week in Atlanta during the OpenStack Summit, I gave a talk on “Are enterprises ready for the OpenStack transformation” [slides|video]. In this talk, I suggest that OpenStack is a game changer, both by definition and because of how it’s following the AWS… Read more →
If you missed our presentations at the OpenStack Summit in Atlanta, you have a second chance to see them with the videos bellow. High Availability in Neutron – Getting the L3 Agent Right Speakers: Emilien Macchi and Sylvain Afchain Slides: Neutron-L3-HA-Summit-eNovance-template.pdf. To provide public connectivity to virtual machines, you can install the Neutron L3 Agent which aims to connect your… Read more →
If you could not attend the last OpenStack Summit in Atlanta and you are interested by Puppet, this article is for you. First feedback: I was so happy to see dedicated sessions for Automation and OPS subjects. We got plenty of sessions where we could share experiences about the reality of OpenStack in production. Most people present in these sessions… Read more →
During the summit in Atlanta, the Vulnerability Management Team gathered in a design session for the upcoming Juno cycle. What is the VMT OpenStack, like any other piece of code, has and will have bugs. Those with security implications must be addressed in a special way, as they can lead to numerous nefarious consequences such as data loss, service interruption… Read more →
Having an industrialized way to deploy OpenStack for our customers, independant of the OpenStack/Linux distributions our customers may chose to use, is a key element to ensure maintainability and upgradability, and therefore customer satisfaction. As our experience grows, our set of tools is getting better everyday, and while we have often described some of these tools individually, providing a complete… Read more →
After discussing the methodology of a benchmark tools suite, this article is about implementing it into the ideal project and testing servers with it. Why starting a new project ? As for every project hosted by eNovance, Automated Health Check (AHC) project is done under an open source licence and publicly available on github via the edeploy repository. Up to… Read more →
Performance does matter When speaking about cloud infrastructures, many think about the amount of servers, storage or number of virtual machines to be used. More than the quantity of hardware you select, the efficiency of your global solution is the key to get a powerful platform. This first article will be about defining why you should understand, check and diagnose… Read more →