On Tuesday afternoon about 60 people gathered for the RDO BoF (Birds of a Feather) session at OpenStack Summit in Austin. By the way, the term Birds of a Feather comes from the saying "Birds of a feather flock together", which refers to like-minded people gathering. The topics discussed can be found in the agenda. The network was friendly, and… Read more →
We’re continuing our series of "What did you do in Mitaka?" interviews. This one is with Javier Peña. (If the above player doesn’t work for you, you can download the file HERE. Rich: Today I’m speaking with Javier Peña, who is another member of the Red Hat OpenStack engineering team. Thanks for making time to speak with me. Javier: Thank… Read more →
In this installment of the "What Did You Do in Mitaka" series, I’m speaking with Haïkel Guémar (If the above player doesn’t work for you, you can download the audio HERE.) Rich: Thanks for making time to speak with me. Haïkel: Thank you. R: So, tell me, what did you do in Mitaka? H: I work on the RDO engineering… Read more →
Next in our series of "What Did You Do In Mitaka" articles, I spoke with Chandan Kumar, who works on packaging for RDO, and also is active on the mailing list and on IRC. See also, Ivan Chavero and Ihar Hrachyshka‘s interviews. (If the above player doesn’t work for you, you can download the podcast recording HERE.) Rich: RDO Mitaka… Read more →
This has been a big few weeks for RDO, and for OpenStack in general, with the Mitaka release coming out, and OpenStack Summit just around the corner. Here’s some of what RDO enthusiasts have been blogging about in the last few days. RDO Mitaka released by Rich Bowen The RDO community is pleased to announce the general availability of the… Read more →
2 years ago we started the CentOS Cloud SIG. Progress has been slow but steady. Slow, I think, because we’ve not done a wonderful job of explaining what it’s for, and why it matters. But it has been a very important aspect of moving the RDO project forward, so it deserves better explanation. The Cloud SIG produces packages which allow… Read more →
In this installment of our "What did you do in Mitaka?" series, Ihar Hrachyshka talks about his work on Neutron both in Mitaka, and what’s planned for Newton. You can listen below. If the player doesn’t work for you, you can listen HERE. Rich: Hello, I’m speaking with Ihar Hrachyshka about the work that he did in the RDO community… Read more →
This is the first in what will hopefully be a long series of interviews with OpenStack engineers about what they worked on in the Mitaka cycle. The OpenStack cloud software project recently released the Mitaka release. RDO is a community distribution of OpenStack. I’ve invited several of the engineers that work on RDO to talk about what they did in… Read more →
When Derek Higgins started the tool to build OpenStack packages based on latest upstream aka "trunk" changes, the name Delorean seemed like a good choice: the tool is keeping older builds so you could "go back in time" like with a time machine, it’s geeky enough and there’s Irish connection. Fast forward earlier this year, when this tool is used… Read more →
Time goes fast as a RDO newbie and once I understood what the RDO Trunk and CloudSIG repos provide (read my previous post if you still have doubts), my next goal was to have a clear high-level perspective of the entire delivery workflow followed in the project. Although there is a lot of detailed and great information in different sources… Read more →
The RDO community is pleased to announce the general availability of the RDO build for OpenStack Mitaka for RPM-based distributions – CentOS Linux 7 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. RDO is suitable for building private, public, and hybrid clouds and Mitaka is the 13th release from the OpenStack project, which is the work of more than 2500 contributors from around… Read more →
Here’s what RDO enthusiasts were blogging about this week: St. Louis OpenStack Meetup by Rich Bowen On Tuesday evening I had the privilege of addressing the St. Louis OpenStack Meetup group. I gave an Introduction to OpenStack presentation to about 30 attendees, many of whom were indeed OpenStack beginners, or just beginning to research what this OpenStack thing is all… Read more →
As a new contributor to the RDO project, one of my first tasks was to understand what is actually being produced by the project. According to RDO faq, the main goal is to maintain a freely-available, community-supported distribution of OpenStack based on RPM packages able to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Fedora, and their derivatives. But the RDO community… Read more →
I love this time of year – the energy and passion that swells right around an upstream OpenStack release, and the weeks before an OpenStack Summit. Most of the year, people are heads down working on their particular part of the project, but as we near a release, there’s a lot of interest in what’s going on in the larger… Read more →
Here’s what RDO engineers are blogging about lately Who can +2 a patch? by Adam Young You are trying to push along a patch…and it dawns on you that you have no idea who to ask. The answer is out there. … read more at http://tm3.org/5s The OpenStack Schizophrenia by Julien Danjou When I started contributing to OpenStack, almost five… Read more →