Here’s what RDO enthusiasts have been blogging about in the last couple of weeks. I encourage you to particularly read Julie’ excellent writeup of the OpenStack Pike PTG last week in Atlanta. And have a look at my video series from the PTG for other engineers’ perspectives. OpenStack Pike PTG: OpenStack Client – Tips and background for interested contributors by… Read more →
I have been involved in 6 GA releases of RDO (From Juno to Ocata), and I wanted to share a glimpse of the preparation work. Since Juno, our process has tremendously evolved: we refocused RDO on EL7, joined the CentOS Cloud SIG, moved to Software Factory. Our release process does not start when upstream announces GA or even a milestone,… Read more →
The RDO community is pleased to announce the general availability of the RDO build for OpenStack Ocata for RPM-based distributions, CentOS Linux 7 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. RDO is suitable for building private, public, and hybrid clouds. Ocata is the 15th release from the OpenStack project, which is the work of more than 2500 contributors from around the world… Read more →
Over the last several years, OpenStack has conducted OpenStack Summit twice a year. One of these occurs in North America, and the other one alternates between Europe and Asia/Pacific. This year, OpenStack Summit in North America is in Boston , and the other one will be in Sydney. This year, though, the OpenStack Foundation is trying something a little different…. Read more →
Here’s what RDO enthusiasts have been blogging about in the last few weeks. If you blog about RDO, please let me know (rbowen@redhat.com) so I can add you to my list. TripleO: Debugging Overcloud Deployment Failure by bregman You run ‘openstack overcloud deploy’ and after a couple of minutes you find out it failed and if that’s not enough, then… Read more →
It’s been a very busy few weeks in the RDO travel schedule, and we wanted to share some photos with you from RDO’s booth at DevConf.cz. Led by Eliska Malikova, and supported by our team of RDO engineers, we provided information about RDO and OpenStack, as well as a few impromptu musical performances. RDO engineers spun up a small RDO… Read more →
Last Friday in Brussels, CentOS enthusiasts gathered for the annual CentOS Dojo, right before FOSDEM. While there was no official videographer for the event, I set up my video camera in the talks that I attended, and so have video of five of the sessions. First, I attended the session covering RDO CI in the CentOS build management system. I… Read more →
FOSDEM starts tomorrow in Brussels, but there’s always a number of events the day before. This year, several speakers from the RDO community are participating in the CentOS Dojo ahead of the main event tomorrow. Haïkel Guémar, Matthieu Huin – CI in the cloud – How RDO uses OpenStack infra tools for packaging Spyros Trigazis – OpenStack @ CERN: Status… Read more →
The release of Ocata, with its shorter release cycle, is close and it is time to start a broader testing (even if one could argue that it is always time for testing!). One of the core pieces for testing the cloud is the Tempest. Tempest in RDO Current status The status up to the Newton is well described in few… Read more →