It was with surprise and pleasure that we learned of Oracle’s decision to base their commercial OpenStack offering on the community-supported RDO distribution of OpenStack. (See their packstack-based deployment instructions here.) We are always happy to see people use our distribution, on which we encourage people to build proof of concept or test deployments of OpenStack on CentOS, Fedora, and… 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! Using Heat ResourceGroup resources, by Steve Hardy I wanted to share a howto showing how (and how not) to use the group resources in… Read more →
Here’s the blog posts that came out of the RDO community last week. Visualizing Heat stacks I spent some time today learning about Heat autoscaling groups, which are incredibly nifty but a little opaque from the Heat command line, since commands such as heat resource-list don’t recurse into nested stacks. It is possible to introspect these resources (you can pass… Read more →
In case you missed it, this morning Lars gave a presentation on deploying things with OpenStack Heat. You can watch that presentation at https://plus.google.com/events/c9u4sjn7ksb8jrmma7vd25aok94 The slides are available at http://oddbit.com/rdo-hangout-heat-intro/#/ The templates used in the presentation are at https://github.com/larsks/rdo-hangout-heat-intro/ If you have questions about the presentation, you can ask them on the Hangout page, or in the #RDO or #Heat… Read more →
Here’s the blog posts that came out of the RDO community last week. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.4.1 Released I don’t often find myself getting overly excited about maintenance releases, however Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.4.1 is an exception due to two key factors: Preview support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 as a hypervisor host Support for up to… Read more →
Next week, Friday, September 5, 10 am Eastern US time, Lars Kellogg-Stedman will be presenting a Google Hangout on the subject of deploying with Heat. This will be streamed live on YouTube at https://plus.google.com/events/c9u4sjn7ksb8jrmma7vd25aok94 and if the time is not convenient, you will be able to watch it at that same URL after the fact. Come to the #rdo-hangout channel… Read more →
Here’s the blog posts that came out of the RDO community last week. Keystone is not an authentication service, by Nathan Kinder In my previous post about security related updates that are coming in Juno, I mentioned that Keystone itself is a poor identity management solution. I feel that this is a topic that deserves a more thorough discussion. …… Read more →
A little more than 2 years ago, the Ceilometer project was launched inside the OpenStack ecosystem. Its main objective was to measure OpenStack cloud platforms in order to provide data and mechanisms for functionalities such as billing, alarming or capacity planning. In this article, I would like to relate what I’ve been doing with other Ceilometer developers in the last… Read more →
Each week, I’m going to be posting a summary of blog posts from the RDO community from the previous week. If you’d like something you’ve written to be part of this, please let me know so that I can add you to my list. Four ways to connect a docker container to a local network, by Lars Kellogg-Stedman This article… Read more →
For more than a year, Ceph has become increasingly popular and saw several deployments inside and outside OpenStack. For those of you who do not know Ceph is unified, distributed and massively scalable open source storage technology that provides several ways to access and consume your data such as object, block and filesystem. The community and Ceph itself has greatly… Read more →
Next November in Paris, the OpenStack community is going to design our future Kilo release. Together, developers, users and companies are building and sharing thoughts about ‘How OpenStack is going to be most scalable – the most efficient – the most Open Source Cloud that ever existed ? eNovance is proud to be part of this community project and to be… Read more →
While Heat exists mostly as an orchestration tool for OpenStack, it is also an interesting system for describing in templates interactions with APIs. There has been a resource to talk to the Docker API in Heat for a few months now [1], and we’ve seen some great examples of how to to use it. Most of them expect a Docker… Read more →
OpenStack Swift is an object storage solution built for massive scale with a focus on durability and availability of the stored data. The latest release, 2.0, is the biggest change in the history of the project since the open source release four years ago and adds a new feature called Storage Policies.
On July 9th, 11am Eastern time, Eoghan Glynn will be leading a hangout in which he’ll discuss what’s coming in Ceilometer in the Juno release. You can register to attend (so you’ll get a reminder) and attend the actual event, at https://plus.google.com/events/c6e8vjjn8klrf78ruhkr95j4tas If the time isn’t convenient, you’ll be able to watch the archived video at that same location afterwards…. Read more →
As a follow-up to the first article of this how-to series, this article will be about selecting the proper tests, aggregating the results and performing smoke tests. Selecting the proper test patterns Each benchmarking tool has its own features and options. It is important to review them and choose the appropriate ones to make the tool performing the test you… Read more →