Building new OpenStack packages for RDO is always tough. Let’s use DLRN to make our life simpler. DLRN is the RDO Continuous Delivery platform that pulls upstream git, rebuild them as RPM using template spec files, and ships them in repositories consumable by CI (e.g upstream puppet/Tripleo/packstack CI). We can use DLRN to build a new RDO python package before… Read more →
The RDO Community is pleased to announce a new release of openstack-utils. Changes: Drop now out-of-date openstack-db utility openstack-status: autodetect MySQL variant openstack-status: check LBaaSv2 agent status Packages are already in RDO repositories. Download sources on github Please report issues/RFE on openstack-utils issue tracker Openstack-utils is a collection of utilities for OpenStack Services on RDO. It includes: openstack-config: manipulate safely… Read more →
Here’s what RDO enthusiasts have been blogging about in the last few weeks: Who is Testing Your Cloud? by Maria Bracho With test driven development, continuous integration/continuous deployment and devops practices now the norm, most organizations understand the importance of testing their applications. … read more at http://tm3.org/7k Clearing the Keystone Environment By Adam Young If you spend a lot… Read more →
Quite often, projects tend to to outgrow their initial expectations, and in those cases we face issues as they grow. This has been the case with our RDO Trunk repositories and the DLRN tool that builds them. I had my first contact with the tool a bit more than a year ago, when I took the task of migrating it… Read more →
The first day at Red Hat Summit in San Francisco was, as always, very busy, with hundreds of people coming by the Community Central area of the exhibit hall to learn about RDO, as wlel as other community projects including ManageIQ, Ceph, CentOS, and many others. Due to the diverse nature of the audience, and their many reasons for attending… Read more →
Here’s what RDO enthusiasts have been blogging about in the last week. Skydive plugin for devstack by Babu Shanmugam Devstack is the most commonly used project for OpenStack development. Wouldn’t it be cool to have a supporting software which analyzes the network infrastructure and helps us troubleshoot and monitor the SDN solution that Devstack is deploying? … read more at… Read more →
OpenStack Day – Budapest, 6th June 2016 It was the 4th OSD in Budapest, but at a brand new place, which was absolutely brilliant. And by brilliant I mean – nice place to stay, great location, enough options around, very good sound, well working AC in rooms for talks and professional catering. I am not sure about number of attendees,… Read more →
OpenStack swims in a larger ecosystem of community projects. At the upcoming Red Hat Summit in San Francisco, RDO will be sharing the Community Central section of the show floor with various of these projects. We’ll have a series of presentations featuring various projects running througout the event, including OpenStack, oVirt, Ansible, Ceph, Gluster, CentOS, and more. For the full… Read more →
Devstack is the most commonly used project for OpenStack development. Wouldn’t it be cool to have a supporting software which analyzes the network infrastructure and helps us troubleshoot and monitor the SDN solution that Devstack is deploying? Skydive is an open source project aimed to help troubleshooting SDN systems by analyzing the data that it collects from the network infrastructure…. Read more →
Here’s what the RDO community has been blogging about recently: TripleO partial stack updates by Steve Hardy Recently I was asked if it’s possible to do a partial update of a TripleO overcloud – the answer is yes, so I thought I’d write a post showing how to do it. Much of what follows is basically an update on my… Read more →
In case you missed it, the June RDO newsletter is now available. If you’re not receiving the RDO newsletter, you can subscribe by sending email to rdo-newsletter-subscribe@redhat.com. The newsletter is sent the first week of every month, and covers what’s been going on in the RDO community, and what’s happening in the coming weeks.
Here’s what RDO engineers have been blogging about over the last few weeks. [Event Report] RDO Bug Triage Day on 18th and 19th May, 2016 by Chandan Kumar As the RDO development continues to grow, the numbers of bugs also grow. To make the community robust and heavy, it is also necessary to triage and fix the existing bugs so… Read more →
Red Hat Summit is just a few weeks away, and it’s a great place to learn about RDO, and deploying OpenStack on Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS. If you’re coming, be sure to drop by the RDO booth in the Community Central section of the exhibit hall. Grab an RDO tshirt, watch demos of what people are doing on… Read more →
In order to deploy an OpenStack cloud with the TripleO installer ( http://tripleo.org/ ), one needs at least 2 nodes for a basic setup. If one is interested in deploying more complex topologies, more nodes might be required, for an Highly Available (HA) setup, 4 nodes are required. Even if libvirt is well-suited for testing basic setups, its limits are… Read more →
DLRN is the tool used by the RDO project to build RPM packages for every commit from the OpenStack projects. See http://blogs.rdoproject.org/7834/delorean-openstack-packages-from-the-future for more details on how DLRN works. These commits from the upstream OpenStack projects can introduce changes that break the packaging. We call these FTBFS (Failure To Build From Source). When we have a FTBFS reported by DLRN,… Read more →