As presented by Julien Danjou, Gnocchi is designed to store metric metadata into an indexer (usually a SQL database) and store the metric measurements into another backend. The default backend creates timeseries using Carbonara (a pandas based library) and stores them into Swift. The storage Gnocchi backend is pluggable, and not all deployments install Swift, so I have decided to… Read more →
With OpenStack embracing the Tooz library more and more over the past year, I think it’s a good start to write a bit about it. A bit of history A little more than year ago, with my colleague Yassine Lamgarchal and others at eNovance, we investigated on how to solve a problem often encountered inside OpenStack: synchronization of multiple distributed… Read more →
Today, eNovance by Red Hat is releasing the first beta version of the Software Factory project. Software Factory is an open source, integrated agile development platform that provides integrated tools for collaborative software development. Greatly inspired by StackForge, the collaborative platform used to manage contributions to OpenStack, Software Factory replicates its OpenStack development process to help organizations deliver high quality… Read more →
With the exhaustion of IPv4 addresses, IPv6 is no longer a choice but is now a necessity, even more so in case of a cloud environment. Neutron includes a sub-team focused on bringing parity between IPv4 and IPv6 features and to enhance IPv6 support in OpenStack. The group currently meets every Tuesday at 15:00 UTC in #openstack-meeting-alt with notes available… Read more →
A little more than 2 years ago, the Ceilometer project was launched inside the OpenStack ecosystem. Its main objective was to measure OpenStack cloud platforms in order to provide data and mechanisms for functionalities such as billing, alarming or capacity planning. In this article, I would like to relate what I’ve been doing with other Ceilometer developers in the last… Read more →
For more than a year, Ceph has become increasingly popular and saw several deployments inside and outside OpenStack. For those of you who do not know Ceph is unified, distributed and massively scalable open source storage technology that provides several ways to access and consume your data such as object, block and filesystem. The community and Ceph itself has greatly… Read more →
Next November in Paris, the OpenStack community is going to design our future Kilo release. Together, developers, users and companies are building and sharing thoughts about ‘How OpenStack is going to be most scalable – the most efficient – the most Open Source Cloud that ever existed ? eNovance is proud to be part of this community project and to be… Read more →
While Heat exists mostly as an orchestration tool for OpenStack, it is also an interesting system for describing in templates interactions with APIs. There has been a resource to talk to the Docker API in Heat for a few months now [1], and we’ve seen some great examples of how to to use it. Most of them expect a Docker… Read more →
OpenStack Swift is an object storage solution built for massive scale with a focus on durability and availability of the stored data. The latest release, 2.0, is the biggest change in the history of the project since the open source release four years ago and adds a new feature called Storage Policies.
As a follow-up to the first article of this how-to series, this article will be about selecting the proper tests, aggregating the results and performing smoke tests. Selecting the proper test patterns Each benchmarking tool has its own features and options. It is important to review them and choose the appropriate ones to make the tool performing the test you… Read more →
A few weeks ago was the OpenStack Design Summit in Atlanta, GA where we, developers, discussed and designed the new OpenStack release (Juno) coming up. I’ve been there mainly to discuss Ceilometer upcoming developments. The summit has been great. It was my third OpenStack design summit, and the first one not being a PTL, meaning it was a largely more… Read more →
Six months have passed since Hong Kong and it is always really exciting to see all the folks from the community gathered all-together in a (bit chilly) convention center. As far I saw from the submitted and accepted talks, Ceph continues its road to the top. There is still a huge growing interest about Ceph. On tuesday May 13th, Josh… Read more →
There was a lot of interest in Swift during the Juno OpenStack Summit in Atlanta and sessions and workshops were very well attended. More than 30 sessions were directly or indirectly related to Swift, its use cases and discussion on the past, current and future development of Swift. Thanks to all the awesome people who are developing and using Swift… Read more →
This is a repost of the blog posted on Thursday May 22nd 2014 on Wired Innovations Insights Last week in Atlanta during the OpenStack Summit, I gave a talk on “Are enterprises ready for the OpenStack transformation” [slides|video]. In this talk, I suggest that OpenStack is a game changer, both by definition and because of how it’s following the AWS… Read more →
If you missed our presentations at the OpenStack Summit in Atlanta, you have a second chance to see them with the videos bellow. High Availability in Neutron – Getting the L3 Agent Right Speakers: Emilien Macchi and Sylvain Afchain Slides: Neutron-L3-HA-Summit-eNovance-template.pdf. To provide public connectivity to virtual machines, you can install the Neutron L3 Agent which aims to connect your… Read more →