We’ve got two events next week you’ll want to put on your calendars. On Tuesday and Wednesday (October 29th and 30th) we’ll be doing another RDO Test Day, where we’ll be putting the Havana release through its paces. We’d really appreciate a few hours of your time to help make sure that the new release is solid. Then, on Thursday… Read more →
Dan Radez will be presenting at three meetups in the US North East, November 19th, 20th, and 21st, on the topic "Getting Started with RDO". If you’re in Pennsylvania, New York or Connecticut, please help us get the word out, and we’d love to have you show up there yourself if you can. You can find more details at http://www.jaddog.org/2013/10/23/openstack-meetups-getting-started-with-rdo/
RDO congratulates the OpenStack Foundation on the release of OpenStack 2013.2, code named Havana, the latest version of the OpenStack cloud platform. And, right on the heels of that, we’re pleased to announce RDO Havana, our packaging of OpenStack Havana for easy deployment on Red Hat derivative operating systems – RHEL, Fedora, CentOS, Scientific Linux, and other RPM-based linux distributions…. Read more →
Next week, many of the RDO community will be in Edinburgh, UK, for LinuxCon Europe. http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-europe There’s a lot of OpenStack content at the conference, and there’s also several co-located events that have a lot of cloud-related content: CloudOpen – http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/cloudopen-europe KVM Forum – http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kvm-forum Gluster Workshop – http://www.gluster.org/2013/10/gluster-workshop-in-edinburgh-at-linuxcon-europe/ And, of course, there’s also really cool events like the Automotive… Read more →
Our friends at Mirantis will be presenting a webcast on October 29th, talking about what’s new in Havana. You can register at http://mirantis.sites.hubspot.com/whats-new-in-havana-openstack-release-technical-overview Date: Tuesday, 29 October, 2013 Time: 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET / 7:00 pm CET Key Topics: Easier management with new orchestration and scaling capabilities and even the option to suspend instances and reuse their… Read more →
(Via Pádraig Brady – see original mail thread at https://www.redhat.com/archives/rdo-list/2013-October/msg00046.html ) The full Havana RC1 package set is now available in the RDO repos, for both el6 distros and Fedora 19. Instructions to get started with these repos are at: http://rdoproject.org/QuickStartLatest In this release we have: openstack-swift-1.10.0-0.1.rc1 openstack-ceilometer-2013.2-0.12.rc1 openstack-keystone-2013.2-0.14.rc1 openstack-glance-2013.2-0.12.rc1 openstack-nova-2013.2-0.23.rc1 openstack-cinder-2013.2-0.11.rc1 python-django-horizon-2013.2-0.12.rc1 openstack-neutron-2013.2-0.12.rc1 openstack-heat-2013.2-0.9.rc1 also these set of client… Read more →
Red Hat is proud to have been a sponsor of OpenStack India this year. Over 200 people attended the event. Here’s a writeup and some photos from the event: http://openstackindia.wordpress.com/2013/10/10/event-report-openstack-india-day-2013/
We’re delighted to announce that we’ll be doing another presentation on OpenStack networking, at 12 Eastern (time in your timezone). Brent Eagles (beagles in the forums and IRC) will be presenting the next step, to follow on from Dave’s presentation on basic networking. He’ll be covering topics such as GRE tunneling and VLANs, and other advanced topics that you’ll need… Read more →
The agenda for the OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong is now live, at http://openstacksummitnovember2013.sched.org/ If you’re going to be in Hong Kong, please let us know, or drop by and see us at the Red Hat booth. We’d love to talk with you.
From the rdo-list mailing list: Greetings, Packstack packages has been updated in RDO Havana repo: Tue Sep 24 2013 Martin Mágr mmagr@redhat.com – 2013.2.1-0.10.dev763 Adds "default-storage-engine=InnoDB" to /etc/my.cnf (#980593) Accepts more CLI options (#985361) Added GRE support (#1004397) Regards, Martin By the way, if you’re interested in the development side of RDO, you might want to be on the rdo-list… Read more →
If you haven’t already done so, please consider filling out the OpenStack User Survey, at http://www.openstack.org/user-survey The survey will close on Monday, September 30th, and is an attempt by the OpenStack Foundation to gather some data on who is using OpenStack, where and how. If you participated in the survey last year, this is an update to that information, so… Read more →
Since we’ve noticed that a large percentage of questions on the RDO Forum are focused on networking, we’re planning to have a Google Hangout on September 24th, at 12pm Eastern time, (9am Pacific, 17:00 GMT, http://bit.ly/1cnEZEN for your local timezone.) You can see the hangout details, and let us know you’re coming, at https://plus.google.com/events/cph9aq3a6ag1lb17g3gsvaiiljg The presentation will be a short… Read more →
More details, and signup, at http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/137539232/ Talking Storage: Ceph, Swift, Gluster, Architecture and Scaling Tuesday, September 10, 2013 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM EVault HQ 201 3rd Street, Suite 400, San Francisco, CA What are the emerging architectural best practices for storage in a cloud? Does mixing compute and storage scale or should storage be its own tier? How about… Read more →
With the Havana milestone 3 due the week of September 9th, we’re planning to hold a test day on September 10th and 11th. (Yes, that’s two days. We’re doing that in order to allow all timezones to participate.) The page where we’ll track this is being built at http://rdoproject.org/Test_Day_09_2013 and you can follow that as it gets closer to the… Read more →
Thanks for being part of the RDO community! RDO is the latest stable OpenStack packaged for RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, and derivative distributions, making it as easy as possible to deploy OpenStack on the industry’s most trusted Linux platforms. (You can manage your list subscription at http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rdo-newsletter ) Google Hangout, Test Day, Events There’s several upcoming events that I want to… Read more →