Doug Hellmann: Release management in OpenStack Ocata
Doug Hellmann talks about release management in OpenStack Ocata, at the OpenStack PTG in Atlanta.
Recent blog posts: June 12
Experiences with Cinder in Production by Arne Wiebalck The CERN OpenStack cloud service is providing block storage via Cinder since Havana days in early 2014. Users can choose from seven different volume types, which offer different physical locations, different power feeds, and different performance characteristics. All volumes are backed by Ceph, deployed in three separate clusters across two data centres…. Read more →
RDO Contributor Survey
We recently ran a contributor survey in the RDO community, and while the participation was fairly small (21 respondants), there’s a lot of important insight we can glean from it. First, and unsurprisingly: Of the 20 people who answered the "corporate affiliation" question, 18 were Red Hat employees. While we are already aware that this is a place where we… Read more →
Recent blog posts – May 22nd
Here’s some of the recent blog posts from our community: Some lessons an IT department can learn from OpenStack by jpena I have spent a lot of my professional career working as an IT Consultant/Architect. In those positions, you talk to many customers with different backgrounds, and see companies that run their IT in many different ways. Back in 2014,… Read more →
Some lessons an IT department can learn from OpenStack
I have spent a lot of my professional career working as an IT Consultant/Architect. In those positions, you talk to many customers with different backgrounds, and see companies that run their IT in many different ways. Back in 2014, I joined the OpenStack Engineering team at Red Hat, and started being involved with the OpenStack community. And guess what, I… Read more →
Running (and recording) fully automated GUI tests in the cloud
The problem Software Factory is a full-stack software development platform: it hosts repositories, a bug tracker and CI/CD pipelines. It is the engine behind RDO’s CI pipeline, but it is also very versatile and suited for all kinds of software projects. Also, I happen to be one of Software Factory’s main contributors. 🙂 Software Factory has many cool features that… Read more →
Recent blog posts
Here’s what other RDO users have been blogging about in the past few weeks: Dear RDO Enthusiast by rainsdance Remember that post from over a month ago? Read more at http://groningenrain.nl/dear-rdo-enthusiast/ Red Hat Virtualization 4.1 is LIVE! by CaptainKVM Today marks another milestone in the evolution of our flagship virtualization platform, Red Hat Virtualization (RHV), as we announce the release… Read more →
Introducing Rain Leander
Dear RDO Enthusiast, We have some important news this week about what’s shifting in the RDO community. As you may know, Rich Bowen has been serving in the role of Community Liaison for the last 4 years. In that capacity, he’s done a variety of things for the community, including event coordination, social media, podcasts and videos, managing the website,… Read more →
Recent blog posts
I haven’t done an update in a few weeks. Here are some of the blog posts from our community in the last few weeks. Red Hat joins the DPDK Project by Marcos Garcia – Principal Technical Marketing Manager Today, the DPDK community announced during the Open Networking Summit that they are moving the project to the Linux Foundation, and creating… Read more →
Steve Hardy: OpenStack TripleO in Ocata, from the OpenStack PTG in Atlanta
Steve Hardy talks about TripleO in the Ocata release, at the Openstack PTG in Atlanta. Steve: My name is Steve Hardy. I work primarily on the TripleO project, which is an OpenStack deployment project. What makes TripleO interesting is that it uses OpenStack components primarily in order to deploy a production OpenStack cloud. It uses OpenStack Ironic to do bare… Read more →
Using a standalone Nodepool service to manage cloud instances
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 →
Stephen Finucane – OpenStack Nova – What's new in Ocata
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 →
Zane Bitter – OpenStack Heat, OpenStack PTG, Atlanta
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 →
The journey of a new OpenStack service in RDO
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 →
Blog posts, week of March 20
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 →