Here’s what RDO enthusiasts have been blogging about in the past few weeks. If you blog about RDO and you’re not on this list, please let me know so I can add you to the list. Standalone Cinder: The definitive SDS by geguileo Are you looking for the best Software Defined Storage in the market? Look no further, Standalone Cinder… Read more →
Come see us this weekend at DevConf.cz,in Brno, Czechia. Like last year, we’ll be just inside the entrance, with stickers, command-line cheat sheets, RDO tshirts, and people to answer all of your RDO and OpenStack questions. See you there!
Making sure your Gerrit changes aren’t broken by Lars Kellogg-Stedman It’s a bit of an embarrassment when you submit a review to Gerrit only to have it fail CI checks immediately because of something as simple as a syntax error or pep8 failure that you should have caught yourself before submitting…but you forgot to run your validations before submitting the… Read more →
RPM macro is a short string, always prefixed by % and generally surrounded by curly brackets ({}) which RPM will convert to a different and usually longer string. Some macros can take arguments and some can be quite complex. In RHEL, CentOS and Fedora, macros are provided by rpm package and from redhat-rpm-config. In RDO, OpenStack macros are provided by… Read more →
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 →
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 →