Ihar Hrachyshka – What's new in OpenStack Neutron for Ocata
Ihar Hrachyshka talks about his work on Neutron in Ocata, and what’s coming in Pike.
Improving the RDO Trunk infrastructure, take 2
One year ago, we discussed the improvements made to the RDO Trunk infrastructure in this post. As expected, our needs have changed in this year, and so has to change our infrastructure. So here we are, ready to describe what’s new in RDO Trunk. New needs We have some new needs to cover: A new DLRN API has been introduced,… Read more →
Victoria Martinez de la Cruz: OpenStack Manila
Victoria Martinez de la Cruz talks Manila, Outreachy, at the OpenStack PTG in Atlanta
Introducing Software Factory – part 1
Introducing Software Factory Software Factory is an open source, software development forge with an emphasis on collaboration and ensuring code quality through Continuous Integration (CI). It is inspired by OpenStack’s development workflow that has proven to be reliable for fast-changing, interdependent projects driven by large communities. Software Factory is batteries included, easy to deploy and fully leverages OpenStack clouds. Software… Read more →
Thiago da Silva and Christian Schwede: OpenStack Swift
Thiago da Silva and Christian Schwede discuss what’s new OpenStack Swift in the Ocata release, at the OpenStack PTG, 2017
Giulio Fidente: TripleO and Ceph in OpenStack Ocata
Giulio Fidente talks about TripleO and Ceph at the OpenStack PTG in Atlanta.
Recent blog posts, June 19
Using Ansible Validations With Red Hat OpenStack Platform – Part 3 by August Simonelli, Technical Marketing Manager, Cloud In the previous two blogposts (Part 1 and Part 2) we demonstrated how to create a dynamic Ansible inventory file for a running OpenStack cloud. We then used that inventory to run Ansible-based validations with the ansible-playbook command from the CLI. Read… Read more →
John Trowbridge: TripleO in Ocata
John Trowbridge (Trown) talks about his work on TripleO in the OpenStack Ocata period, and what’s coming in Pike.
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 →