Here’s the blog posts that came out of the RDO community last week. If you’re writing about RDO, or about OpenStack on CentOS, Fedora or RHEL, and you’re not on my list, please let me know! libvirt blockcommit: shorten disk image chain by live merging the current active disk content by Kashyap Chamarthy When using QCOW2-based external snapshots, it is… Read more →
Here’s the blog posts that came out of the RDO community last week. If you’re writing about RDO, or about OpenStack on CentOS, Fedora or RHEL, and you’re not on my list, please let me know! Wherein our hero attempts to build his own OpenStack Keystone RPMs, by Adam Young I have a Devstack setup. I’ve hacked the Keystone repo… Read more →
Here’s the blog posts that came out of the RDO community last week. If you’re writing about RDO, or about OpenStack on CentOS, Fedora or RHEL, and you’re not on my list, please let me know! Zaqar’s path going forward, by Flavio Percoco Long time since I wrote my last post about Zaqar (ex Marconi) and I thought this one… Read more →
Here’s the blog posts that came out of the RDO community last week. If you’re writing about RDO, or about OpenStack on CentOS, Fedora or RHEL, and you’re not on my list, please let me know! bvirt: default network conflicts (not anymore), by Kashyap Chamarthy Increasingly there’s a need for libvirt networking to work inside a virtual machine that is… Read more →
It was with surprise and pleasure that we learned of Oracle’s decision to base their commercial OpenStack offering on the community-supported RDO distribution of OpenStack. (See their packstack-based deployment instructions here.) We are always happy to see people use our distribution, on which we encourage people to build proof of concept or test deployments of OpenStack on CentOS, Fedora, and… Read more →
Here’s the blog posts that came out of the RDO community last week. If you’re writing about RDO, or about OpenStack on CentOS, Fedora or RHEL, and you’re not on my list, please let me know! Using Heat ResourceGroup resources, by Steve Hardy I wanted to share a howto showing how (and how not) to use the group resources in… Read more →
Here’s the blog posts that came out of the RDO community last week. Visualizing Heat stacks I spent some time today learning about Heat autoscaling groups, which are incredibly nifty but a little opaque from the Heat command line, since commands such as heat resource-list don’t recurse into nested stacks. It is possible to introspect these resources (you can pass… Read more →
In case you missed it, this morning Lars gave a presentation on deploying things with OpenStack Heat. You can watch that presentation at https://plus.google.com/events/c9u4sjn7ksb8jrmma7vd25aok94 The slides are available at http://oddbit.com/rdo-hangout-heat-intro/#/ The templates used in the presentation are at https://github.com/larsks/rdo-hangout-heat-intro/ If you have questions about the presentation, you can ask them on the Hangout page, or in the #RDO or #Heat… Read more →
Here’s the blog posts that came out of the RDO community last week. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.4.1 Released I don’t often find myself getting overly excited about maintenance releases, however Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.4.1 is an exception due to two key factors: Preview support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 as a hypervisor host Support for up to… Read more →
Next week, Friday, September 5, 10 am Eastern US time, Lars Kellogg-Stedman will be presenting a Google Hangout on the subject of deploying with Heat. This will be streamed live on YouTube at https://plus.google.com/events/c9u4sjn7ksb8jrmma7vd25aok94 and if the time is not convenient, you will be able to watch it at that same URL after the fact. Come to the #rdo-hangout channel… Read more →
Here’s the blog posts that came out of the RDO community last week. Keystone is not an authentication service, by Nathan Kinder In my previous post about security related updates that are coming in Juno, I mentioned that Keystone itself is a poor identity management solution. I feel that this is a topic that deserves a more thorough discussion. …… Read more →
Each week, I’m going to be posting a summary of blog posts from the RDO community from the previous week. If you’d like something you’ve written to be part of this, please let me know so that I can add you to my list. Four ways to connect a docker container to a local network, by Lars Kellogg-Stedman This article… Read more →
On July 9th, 11am Eastern time, Eoghan Glynn will be leading a hangout in which he’ll discuss what’s coming in Ceilometer in the Juno release. You can register to attend (so you’ll get a reminder) and attend the actual event, at https://plus.google.com/events/c6e8vjjn8klrf78ruhkr95j4tas If the time isn’t convenient, you’ll be able to watch the archived video at that same location afterwards…. Read more →
RALEIGH, N.C. – June 18, 2014 – Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire eNovance, a leading provider of open source cloud computing services. Combined with Red Hat’s existing leadership in OpenStack, the addition of eNovance’s systems integration capabilities and engineering talent is… Read more →
On Tuesday, April 29th, at 9am Eastern US time – that’s http://tm3.org/rdoheat in your timezone – Steve Baker will be presenting a Google Hangout on OpenStack Heat, and what’s new in the Icehouse release. The presentation will be streamed live on YouTube at http://goo.gl/Tzj85j , but will also be available on-demand at that same URL after the event. During the… Read more →