Flock – http://flocktofedora.org/ – is starting tomorrow in Charlotte, SC. I’m going to be there, hoping to meet some of you, and talk about what you’re doing with OpenStack and RDO. Look for me – I’ll be wearing a red fedora and a red RDO shirt.
Thanks for being part of the RDO community! July was a busy month, and we have a lot to tell you about. If you want to keep up with what’s going on with RDO in the coming month, the best way is to follow the RDO forum, at http://bit.ly/13YEwCe, or to follow us on Twitter at @rdocommunity If you’d like… Read more →
The project For one year, I’ve been working on OpenStack deployments and the first thing I do after each of them is to setup monitoring. There is some interesting ways that you could read on Internet. One of them is from Mirantis and explains that you could monitor API with check_http method. In my opinion, that’s not enough to use… Read more →
Auth v1 is the first API used in OpenStack it was used by the fine folks at Rackspace for their cloud until the auth v2.0 (and v3.0) was developed and deployed with keystone for OpenStack services. There is still quite a few Swift tools using the auth v1 API and not ported to auth v2 and does not seems to… Read more →
There are two updates to packstack packages: Packstack package has been updated in RDO Grizzly EPEL6 repo to openstack-packstack-2013.1.1-0.22.dev653.el6. (Details at https://www.redhat.com/archives/rdo-list/2013-August/msg00002.html) Packstack package has been updated in RDO Havana EPEL6 repo to openstack-packstack-2013.2.1-0.1.dev691.el6. (Details at https://www.redhat.com/archives/rdo-list/2013-August/msg00003.html)
This article introduces Keystone’s trusts mechanism and gives a quick example showing how to use a trust to access a swift container on behalf of another user. What are trusts ? As OpenStack’s identity service, Keystone deals with the problems of authentication (who am I ?) and authorization (what can I do ?). The trusts API adds delegation functionalities: by… Read more →
Think it’s impossible to stand up an OpenStack cloud in 15 minutes? If you’re the betting kind, Red Hat software engineer, Derek Higgins, is ready to take your money. Derek created Packstack, an installation utility that uses Puppet modules to deploy OpenStack in three easy steps. Not convinced? Join Derek Higgins, Cody Herridges, and Chris Hoge for a free webinar… Read more →
Our friends in Inktank recently added a new page to the wiki documenting the process for enabling Ceph for block storage on RDO. This has been a popular request from RDO users in addition to the documentation and support for Gluster as a storage back-end. Let us know how it works!
We’re starting another day at OSCon, at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon. It’s been a great week so far, with lots of great conversations with users, and potential users, of RDO. If you’re at the conference, please drop by and say hi. Or follow us on @RDOCommunity for periodic updates through the day.
There are now 4 separate Havana repositories available on RDO Trunk packages for Fedora and EL6 derivatives The current trunk package series, generated by http://smokestack.openstack.org/ with maximum lag of 1 hour from the latest trunk commit are available for Fedora and more recently EL6 based distributions. Please see the README or browse these repositories at: http://rdo.fedorapeople.org/openstack/openstack-trunk/ Standard Havana repositories for… Read more →
We’re at OSCon today, in the OpenStack pavilion. If you’re here, please drop by and say hi. We’ll be there all day.
Swift has a middleware called tempurl that allow public access to objects. This feature can be useful when an account owner want to allow access for a foreign user to some objects of his account. A common usage when swift is used as storage backend in a web application is to built the temporary urls server side and let the browser communicate… Read more →
From the RDO-list mailing list (https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rdo-list) update: openstack-packstack-2013.1.1-0.20.dev642.el6 Wed Jul 10 2013 – Martin Mágr mmagr@redhat.com – 2013.1.1-0.20.dev642 Fixed provider network option (#976380) Made token_format configurable (#978853) Enable LVM snap autoextend (#975894) MariaDB support (#981116) Older releases: Tue Jun 18 2013 – Martin Mágr mmagr@redhat.com – 2013.1.1-0.19.dev632 Restart openstack-cinder-volume service (#975007) Wed Jun 12 2013 – Martin Mágr mmagr@redhat.com –… Read more →
In case you missed it, the inaugural edition of the RDO Community Newsletter may be read at https://www.redhat.com/archives/rdo-newsletter/2013-July/msg00000.html If you didn’t receive it and would like to receive the next one, you can can subscribe at https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rdo-newsletter If there’s something you think we should cover in the August newsletter, please let us know.
Duplicity is a very nifty backup tool written in Python that supports a wide array of remote storages. It has been dubbed “the rsync of networking”, with good reason (among others, because it is based on librsync). It is packaged for most flavors of Linux. Among the supported remote storages for backup, we find: * S/FTP * SCP * Amazon… Read more →