Here’s what RDO enthusiasts have been blogging about in the last few weeks. Our Cloud in Liberty by Tim Bell The upgrade to Liberty for the CERN cloud was completed at the end of August. Working with the upstream OpenStack, Puppet and RDO communities, this went pretty smoothly without any issues so there is no significant advice to report. We… Read more →
UPDATES: RDO Ocata introduces few changes that partially obsoletes the content of this article; check the updated article for details. Tempest is a set of integration tests to run against an OpenStack cluster. What does RDO provides for Tempest? RDO provides three packages for running tempest against any OpenStack installation. python-tempest : It can be used as a python library,… Read more →
Here’s what RDO enthusiasts have been blogging about in the last few weeks. LinuxCon talk slides: “A Practical Look at QEMU’s Block Layer Primitives” by Kashyap Chamarthy Last week I spent time at LinuxCon (and the co-located KVM Forum) Toronto. I presented a talk on QEMU’s block layer primitives. Specifically, the QMP primitives block-commit, drive-mirror, drive-backup, and QEMU’s built-in NBD… Read more →
RDO infrastructure and tooling has been changing/improving with each OpenStack release and we now have our own packaging workflow powered by RPM factory at review.rdoproject.org, designed to keep up with supersonic speed of upstream development. Let’s see what it takes to land a patch in RDO CloudSIG repos with the new workflow! The Quest This is a short story about… Read more →