It’s been a little while since we’ve posted a roundup of blogposts around RDO, and you all have been rather prolific in the past month! Here’s what we as a community have been talking about: Hooroo! Australia bids farewell to incredible OpenStack Summit by August Simonelli, Technical Marketing Manager, Cloud We have reached the end of another successful and exciting… Read more →
Skydive is “an open source real-time network topology and protocols analyzer”. It is a tool (with CLI and web interface) to help analyze and debug your network (OpenStack, OpenShift, containers, …). The Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) is a set of data plane libraries and network interface controller drivers for fast packet processing. http://dpdk.org/ As Skydive uses flow probes to… Read more →
Continous Integration jobs can generate a lot of data and it can take a lot of time to figure out what went wrong when a job fails. This article demonstrates new strategies to assist with failure investigations and to reduce the need to crawl boring log files. First, I will introduce the challenge of anomaly detection in CI logs. Second,… Read more →
You need to be aware of recent changes to our mailing lists What Happened, and Why? Since the start of the project we have had one mailing list for both users and developers of the RDO project. Over time, we felt that user questions have been drowned out by the more technical developer-oriented discussion, leaving users/operators out of the conversation…. Read more →
Hi, Alan, Matthias, Rich and I were at CERN last week on thursday and friday to attend the CentOS dojo. Rich also a wrote a series of blog posts about the dojo. First day: CentOS SIGs meetup Thursday was dedicated to a SIGs meeting, I’ll give few highlights but you can read notes on his etherpad. We managed to agree… Read more →
Several weeks ago I attended the Project Teams Gathering (PTG) in Denver, and conducted a number of interviews with project teams and a few of the PTLs (Project Technical Leads). These interviews are now all up on the RDO YouTube channel. Please subscribe, as I’ll be doing more interviews like this at OpenStack Summit in Sydney, as well as at… Read more →
Here’s what the RDO community has been blogging about recently: OpenStack 3rd Party CI with Software Factory by jpena Introduction When developing for an OpenStack project, one of the most important aspects to cover is to ensure proper CI coverage of our code. Each OpenStack project runs a number of CI jobs on each commit to test its validity, so… Read more →
Introduction When developing for an OpenStack project, one of the most important aspects to cover is to ensure proper CI coverage of our code. Each OpenStack project runs a number of CI jobs on each commit to test its validity, so thousands of jobs are run every day in the upstream infrastructure. In some cases, we will want to set… Read more →
It’s been a few weeks since I did one of these blog wrapups, and there’s been a lot of great content by the RDO community recently. Here’s some of what we’ve been talking about recently: Project Teams Gathering (PTG) report – Zuul by tristanC The OpenStack infrastructure team gathered in Denver (September 2017). This article reports some of Zuul’s topics… Read more →
The OpenStack infrastructure team gathered in Denver (September 2017). This article reports some of Zuul’s topics that were discussed at the PTG. For your reference, I highlighted some of the new features comming in the Zuul version 3 in this article. Cutover and jobs migration The OpenStack community grew a complex set of CI jobs over the past several years,… Read more →
SELinux is a mechanism that implements mandatory access controls in Linux systems. This article shows how to create a SELinux policy that confines a standard service: Limit its network interfaces, Restrict its system access, and Protect its secrets. Mandatory access control By default, unconfined processes use discretionary access controls (DAC). A user has all the permissions over its objects, for… Read more →
The RDO community is pleased to announce the general availability of the RDO build for OpenStack Pike for RPM-based distributions, CentOS Linux 7 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. RDO is suitable for building private, public, and hybrid clouds. Pike is the 16th release from the OpenStack project, which is the work of more than 2300 contributors from around the world… Read more →
TL;DR: Sign up here for the video interviews at the PTG in Denver next month. Earlier this year, at the PTG in Atlanta I did video interviews with some of the Red Hat engineering who were there. You can see these videos on the RDO YouTube channel. Or you can see the teaser video here: This year, I’ll be expanding… Read more →
Ada Lee talks about OpenStack Security, Barbican, Novajoin, and TLS Everywhere in Ocata, at the OpenStack PTG in Atlanta, 2017.
Introducing Opstools-ansible Ansible Ansible is an agentless, declarative configuration management tool. Ansible can be used to install and configure packages on a wide variety of targets. Targets are defined in the inventory file for Ansible to apply the predefined actions. Actions are defined as playbooks or sometime roles in the form of YAML files. Details of Ansible can be found… Read more →