Yesterday I spoke with Ohad Levy about his work on installing RDO using the Foreman. I had done an interview with him at FOSDEM on the same topic, but that didn’t work out. If the player above doesn’t work for you, you can listen to the interview HERE.
RDO Newsletter, March 2014 Hi again, and thanks for being part of the RDO community. We’ve got a number of events coming up, and various ways you can get involved in the RDO project, as well as the upsream OpenStack community, but first, a little bit about what happened since the last time I wrote. February events Last week, Lars… Read more →
eDeploy At eNovance, eDeploy is our in-house solution for maintaining and deploying production systems. It comes with some interesting features like the ability to do a hardware inventory just before deploying the system. This way we can detect an unexpected configuration or associate a specific configuration to a given role, for example, “storage” role for a 4TiB machine. Fred Lepied,… Read more →
Asynchronous programming is hard. In the past, the Nova project used Tornado, then Twisted and it is now using eventlet which also became the defacto standard in OpenStack. Eventlet is not perfect, we will explain why we consider that eventlet has major flaws. We will then introduce the asyncio module of Python 3.4, how we plan to use it in… Read more →
Python 3 has been around for about 5 years, and we have excellent reasons to make sure OpenStack runs well on it. Unfortunately, this is not the case. In this article, we’ll see what works, what doesn’t, and what you can do to help. Note that we are targetting the latest released version, Python 3.3. Python Clients OpenStack provides a… Read more →
As you may know, sessions at the OpenStack Summit are selected by vote from the community. While we strongly encourage you to vote for the sessions that you find the most interesting, we ask that you’ll consider the following talks, from engineers working on RDO and OpenStack at Red Hat. https://www.openstack.org/vote-atlanta/Presentation/why-select-openstack-versus-proprietary-alternatives-for-your-private-cloud https://www.openstack.org/vote-atlanta/Presentation/quo-vadis-ceilometer https://www.openstack.org/vote-atlanta/Presentation/systems-integration-the-openstack-success-story https://www.openstack.org/vote-atlanta/Presentation/mentoring-others-and-yourself-an-openstack-community-success-story https://www.openstack.org/vote-atlanta/Presentation/customizing-horizon-without-breaking-on-upgrades https://www.openstack.org/vote-atlanta/Presentation/introduction-to-openstack-orchestration https://www.openstack.org/vote-atlanta/Presentation/application-deployment-and-auto-scaling-on-openshift-using-heat https://www.openstack.org/vote-atlanta/Presentation/using-cloud-management-platform-to-tie-incident-change-configuration-and-catalog-management-to-openstack https://www.openstack.org/vote-atlanta/Presentation/user-experience-work-within-the-openstack-community https://www.openstack.org/vote-atlanta/Presentation/development-and-application-of-the-openstack-personas… Read more →
A couple of month back, we decided to run a spartan-type-of-race-but-in-the-snow. A team was born: RAWR!! We trained together for about a month; climbing the Mont-Royal with sandbags, and running under -20 degrees (Celsius) after work. Eight of us from the Montreal office ran and climbed the Polar Hero Race this Saturday morning, February 22nd. Please join me in congratulating… Read more →
Next spring again, the community is going to design our future OpenStack 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 an… Read more →
On Thursday, February 27th, at 10am EST (That’s http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140227T1500 your timezone) Lars Kellogg-Stedman will be doing a walk-through of a multinode deployment with packstack. This will be a Google Hangout, and will be streamed live at http://tm3.org/rdohangout (That’s just a placeholder page for now, but will redirect to the stream when the event starts.) And for those that find this… Read more →
For reference, this is an extension of my initial post to the foundation mailing list discussion initiated by Thierry Carrez. I thought that I could be a little clearer here in what I really think about the subject of Core and interoperability in OpenStack. Having been part of the defcore committee until the end of January, I must say that… Read more →
Introduction eDeploy is a new generation tool to manage baremetal deployments, virtual image creations and upgrades of Linux based systems in general. Upgrades have been the main focus with the possibility to rollback upgrades if needed. For those in a hurry wanting to see the source code, eDeploy is released under the Apache release at https://github.com/enovance/edeploy. In this article, we… Read more →
With Icehouse milestone 2 out today, we’re planning an RDO test day in two weeks – February 4-5 – once we’ve had a chance to get the packages ready and some baseline testing done on them. Details for this test day will be available at http://rdoproject.org/RDO_test_day_Icehouse_milestone_2 where you can also sign up to indicate that you’ll be participating, and in… Read more →
A few days ago we published a blog post called OpenStack Swift as backend for Git – part 1 where we explained what could be the advantages of using Swift as backend for Git and gave you some details about what happens in Git (server side) when a client pushes or fetches objects. In this second blog post, we will… Read more →
As we are working on our Software Factory product, one of the challenges we were facing was whether we could provide a scalable backend to Git. Traditionally, Git is installed using a file system as a backend, which means that out growing your file system means moderately complex operations to make it larger, which are manual and require some downtime…. Read more →
The RDO Community is thrilled with Red Hat’s recent announcement of the closer relationship with CentOS (LINK HERE – http://community.redhat.com/blog/2014/01/red-hat-and-centos-join-forces/ ). Congratulations to the CentOS project, and to all the folks who have worked so hard to make this happen. We’ve already enjoyed a lot of energy from the Fedora community, in testing RDO, submitting bugs reports and fixes, and… Read more →