Nodepool is a service used by the OpenStack CI team to deploy and manage a pool of devstack images on a cloud server for use in OpenStack project testing. This article presents how to use Nodepool to manage cloud instances. Requirements For the purpose of this demonstration, we’ll use a CentOS system and the Software Factory distribution to get all… Read more →
At the OpenStack PTG in February, Stephen Finucane speaks about what’s new in Nova in the Ocata release of OpenStack. Stephen: I’m Stephen Finucane, and I work on Nova for Red Hat. I’ve previously worked at Intel. During most of my time working on Nova I’ve been focused on the same kind of feature set, which is what Intel liked… Read more →
At the OpenStack PTG last month, Zane Bitter speaks about his work on OpenStack Heat in the Ocata cycle, and what comes next. Rich: Tell us who you are and what you work on. Zane: My name is Zane Bitter, and I work at Red Hat on Heat … mostly on Heat. I’m one of the original Heat developers. I’ve… Read more →
When new contributors join RDO, they ask for recommendations about how to add new services and help RDO users to adopt it. This post is not a official policy document nor a detailed description about how to carry out some activities, but provides some high level recommendations to newcomers based on what I have learned and observed in the last… Read more →
Here’s what the RDO community has been blogging about in the last week. Joe Talerico and OpenStack Performance at the OpenStack PTG in Atlanta by Rich Bowen Last month at the OpenStack PTG in Atlanta, Joe Talerico spoke about his work on OpenStack Performance in the Ocata cycle. Read more at http://rdoproject.org/blog/2017/03/joe-talerico-and-openstack-performance-at-the-openstack-ptg-in-atlanta/ RDO CI promotion pipelines in a nutshell by… Read more →
Last month at the OpenStack PTG in Atlanta, Joe Talerico spoke about his work on OpenStack Performance in the Ocata cycle. Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more videos like this. Joe: Hi, I’m Joe Talerico. I work on OpenStack at Red Hat, doing OpenStack performance. In Ocata, we’re going to be looking at doing API and dataplane performance and… Read more →
One of the key goals in RDO is to provide a set of well tested and up-to-date repositories that can be smoothly used by our users: Operators deploying OpenStack with any of the available tools. Upstream projects using RDO repos to develop and test their patches, as OpenStack puppet modules, TripleO or kolla. To include new patches in RDO packages… Read more →
Tempest is a set of integration tests to run against OpenStack Cloud. Delivering robust and working OpenStack cloud is always challenging. To make sure what we deliver in RDO is rock-solid, we use Tempest to perform a set of API and scenario tests against a running cloud using different installers like puppet-openstack-integration, packstack, and tripleo-quickstart. And, it is the story… Read more →
Here’s what RDO enthusiasts have been blogging about in the past week. An even better Ansible reporting interface with ARA 0.12 by dmsimard Not even a month ago, I announced the release of ARA 0.11 with a bunch of new features and improvements. Read more at https://dmsimard.com/2017/03/12/an-even-better-ansible-reporting-interface-with-ara-0-12/ Let rdopkg manage your RPM package by Jakub Ruzicka rdopkg is a RPM packaging automation… Read more →
rdopkg is a RPM packaging automation tool which was written to efortlessly keep packages in sync with (fast moving) upstream. rdopkg is a little opinionated, but when you setup your environment right, most packaging tasks are reduced to a single rdopkg command: Introduce/remove patches: rdopkg patch Rebase patches on a new upstream version: rdopkg new-version rdopkg builds upon the concept… Read more →
There’s lots of great blog posts this week from the RDO community. RDO Ocata Release Behind The Scenes by Haïkel Guémar 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… Read more →
Clips of some of my interviews from the OpenStack PTG last week. Many more to come.
In this post, I will present how to use a CI/CD workflow to manage TripleO deployment life cycle within an OpenStack tenant. The goal is to use Software-Factory to submit reviews to create or update a TripleO deployment. The review process ensure peers validation before executing the deployment or update command. The deployment will be done within Openstack tenants. We… Read more →