The RDO community is pleased to announce the general availability of the RDO build for OpenStack Newton for RPM-based distributions, CentOS Linux 7 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. RDO is suitable for building private, public, and hybrid clouds. Newton is the 14th release from the OpenStack project, which is the work of more than 2700 contributors from around the world… Read more →
If you’ll be in Barcelona later this month for OpenStack Summit, join us for an evening with RDO and Ceph. Tuesday evening, October 25th, from 5 to 8pm (17:00 – 20:00) we’ll be at the Barcelona Princess, right across the road from the Summit venue. We’ll have drinks, light snacks, and presentations from both Ceph and RDO. If you can’t… Read more →
Here’s what RDO enthusiasts are blogging about lately. Gnocchi 3.0 release by Julien Danjou After a few weeks of hard work with the team, here is the new major version of Gnocchi, stamped 3.0.0. It was very challenging, as we wanted to implement a few big changes in it. Read more at http://tm3.org/bf # of DB connections in OpenStack services… Read more →
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 →
It’s been a few weeks since I posted a blog update, and we’ve had some great posts in the meantime. Here’s what RDO enthusiasts have been blogging about for the last few weeks. Native DHCP support in OVN by Numan Siddique Recently native DHCP support has been added to OVN. In this post we will see how native DHCP is… Read more →
Recently native DHCP support has been added to OVN. In this post we will see how native DHCP is supported in OVN and how it is used by OpenStack Neutron OVN ML2 driver. The code which supports native DHCP can be found here and here. Please see this to understand the architecture of OVN and the services of the OVN…. Read more →
Here’s what RDO enthusiasts have been blogging about this week: Customizing a Tripleo Quickstart Deploy by Adam Young Tripleo Heat Templates allow the deployer to customize the controller deployment by setting values in the controllerExtraConfig section of the stack configuration. However, Quickstart already makes use of this in the file /tmp/deploy_env.yaml, so if you want to continue to customize, you… Read more →
This tool makes reviews of rpm packages for Fedora easier. It tries to automate most of the process. Through a bash API the checks can be extended in any programming language and for any programming language. We can also use it for also reviewing RDO packages on Centos 7/Fedora-24. Install fedora-review and DLRN [1.] Install fedora-review and Mock For Centos… Read more →
Just a few blog posts from the RDO community this week: ControllerExtraConfig and Tripleo Quickstart by Adam Young Once I have the undercloud deployed, I want to be able to quickly deploy and redeploy overclouds. However, my last attempt to affect change on the overcloud did not modify the Keystone config file the way I intended. Once again, Steve Hardy… Read more →
Here’s what RDO enthusiasts have been writing about over the past week: TripleO deep dive session #3 (Overcloud deployment debugging) by Carlos Camacho This is the third video from a series of “Deep Dive” sessions related to TripleO deployments. … read (and watch) more at http://tm3.org/81 How connection tracking in Open vSwitch helps OpenStack performance by Jiri Benc By introducing… Read more →
Here’s what RDO enthusiasts have been blogging about in the last week. OpenStack 2016.1-1 release Haïkel Guémar The RDO Community is pleased to announce a new release of openstack-utils. … read more at http://tm3.org/7x Improving RDO packaging testing coverage by David Simard DLRN builds packages and generates repositories in which these packages will be hosted. It is the tool that… Read more →
OpenStack Swift mid-cycle hackathon summary Last week more than 30 people from all over the world met at the Rackspace office in San Antonio, TX for the Swift mid-cycle hackathon. All major companies contributing to Swift sent people, including Fujitsu, HPE, IBM, Intel, NTT, Rackspace, Red Hat, and Swiftstack. As always it was a packed week with a lot of… Read more →