I’ve been out for a few weeks, but the blog posts from the community kept coming. Containers on the CERN cloud by Tim Bell We have recently made the Container-Engine-as-a-Service (Magnum) available in production at CERN as part of the CERN IT department services for the LHC experiments and other CERN communities. This gives the OpenStack cloud users Kubernetes, Mesos… Read more →
TripleO to deploy Ceph standlone by Giulio Fidente Here is a nice Christmas present: you can use TripleO for a standalone Ceph deployment, with just a few lines of YAML. Assuming you have an undercloud ready for a new overcloud, create an environment file like the following: Read more at http://tm3.org/d1 Printed TripleO cheatsheets for FOSDEM/DevConf (feedback needed) by Carlos… Read more →
Here’s what RDO enthusiasts have been posting about in the last week: Digital Foundations – Challenges CIOs Must Embrace by Eric D. Schabell When building anything substantial, such as a house or bridge, you start by laying down a solid foundation. Nothing changes this aspect of building brick by brick when you move from traditional constructions to application development and… Read more →
Here’s what RDO enthusiasts have been blogging about in the past week. ARA 0.10, the biggest release yet, is out ! by dmsimard 19 commits, 59 changed files, 2,404 additions and 588 deletions… and more than a month’s on and off work. Read more at http://tm3.org/cp Upstream Contribution – Give Up or Double Down? by assafmuller Ever since I’ve been involved with… Read more →
There are a lot of situations where you may wish to deploy Openstack using TripleO onto heterogeneous hardware. Often you end up starting out with one type of hardware, but may purchase newer hardware later on, or you change hardware vendors, or you have different hardware that you wish to use to serve different workloads. This post will go over how… Read more →
Over the last few weeks, we’ve been conducting a survey of RDO users, to get an idea of who is using RDO, how, and for what. While the sample size here is small, it’s a start at understanding the makeup of our user community. And we’ll conduct the survey again around the next release, so if you missed this one,… Read more →
Here’s what RDO enthusiasts have been blogging about over the last week or so: Chasing the trunk, but not too fast by amoralej As explained in a previous post, in RDO Trunk repositories we try to provide packages for new commits in OpenStack projects as soon as possible after they are merged upstream. This has a number of advantages: Read… Read more →
UPDATES: RDO Ocata introduces few changes that partially obsoletes the content of this article; check the updated article for details. Tempest is a set of integration tests to run against an OpenStack cluster. In this blog I’m going to show you, how to install tempest from git repository, how to install all requirements and run tests against an OpenStack cluster…. Read more →
As explained in a previous post, in RDO Trunk repositories we try to provide packages for new commits in OpenStack projects as soon as possible after they are merged upstream. This has a number of advantages: It allows packagers to identify packaging issues just after introduced. For project developers, their changes are tested in non-devstack environments, so test coverage is… Read more →
We’ve had more followup blog posts from OpenStack Summit, along with some more from the RDO community. Querying haproxy data using socat from CLI by Carlos Camacho Currently (most users) I don’t have any way to check the haproxy status in a TripleO virtual deployment (via web-browser) if not previously created some tunnels enabled for that purpose. Read more at… Read more →
Last Tuesday in Barcelona, we gathered with the Ceph community for an evening of food, drinks, and technical sessions. There were 215 in attendance at last count, and we had 12 presentations, from members of both communities. A huge thank you to all of the speakers, and to all of the people who turned out for this great evening. More… Read more →
With OpenStack Summit last week, we have a lot of summit-focused blog posts today, and expect more to come in the next few days. Attending OpenStack Summit Ocata by Julien Danjou For the last time in 2016, I flew out to the OpenStack Summit in Barcelona, where I had the chance to meet (again) a lot of my fellow OpenStack… Read more →
Join us next week in Barcelona for OpenStack Summit. We’ll be gathering from around the world to celebrate the Newton release, and plan for the Ocata cycle. RDO will have a table in the Red Hat booth, where we’ll be answering your questions about RDO. And we’ll have ducks, as usual. On Tuesday evening, join us for an evening with… Read more →
Here’s what RDO enthusiasts have been blogging about in the last few days. RDO Newton Released by Rich Bowen The RDO community is pleased to announce the general availability of the RDO build for OpenStack Newton for RPM-based distributions, CentOS Linux 7 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. RDO is suitable for building private, public, and hybrid clouds. Newton is the… Read more →
Rally is a benchmarking tool that automates and unifies multi-node OpenStack deployment, cloud verification, benchmarking & profiling. For OpenStack deployment I used packstack tool. Install Rally [1.] Install rally: $ sudo yum install openstack-rally [2.] After the installation is complete set up the Rally database: $ sudo rally-manage db recreate Register an OpenStack deployment You have to provide Rally with… Read more →