Emilien Macchi talks TripleO at OpenStack Summit
While at OpenStack Summit, I had an opportunity to talk with Emilien Macchi about the work on TripleO in the Pike and Queens projects.
While at OpenStack Summit, I had an opportunity to talk with Emilien Macchi about the work on TripleO in the Pike and Queens projects.
Here I’d like to give a summary of the Sydney OpenStack Summit docs sessions that I took part in, and share my comments on them with the broader OpenStack community. Docs project update At this session, we discussed a recent major refocus of the Documentation project work and restructuring of the OpenStack official documentation. This included migrating documentation from the… Read more →
Over the last several years, OpenStack has conducted OpenStack Summit twice a year. One of these occurs in North America, and the other one alternates between Europe and Asia/Pacific. This year, OpenStack Summit in North America is in Boston , and the other one will be in Sydney. This year, though, the OpenStack Foundation is trying something a little different…. Read more →
If you’ll be in Barcelona later this month for OpenStack Summit, join us for an evening with RDO and Ceph. Tuesday evening, October 25th, from 5 to 8pm (17:00 – 20:00) we’ll be at the Barcelona Princess, right across the road from the Summit venue. We’ll have drinks, light snacks, and presentations from both Ceph and RDO. If you can’t… Read more →
Continuing my series of interviews with RDO engineers, here’s my chat with Emilien Macchi, who I talked with at OpenStack Summit last week in Austin. If you’d like to talk about what you did in Mitaka, please contact me at rbowen@redhat.com. (If the above player doesn’t work for you, please download the audio HERE. Rich: I’m speaking with Emilien Macchi,… Read more →
OpenStack engineers met in Austin last week to design the Newton cycle. Here is a report for the Security Project and other associated efforts. Requirements for the vulnerability:managed governance tag During Mitaka, the vulnerability management team ("VMT") introduced a new vulnerability:managed tag to help identify supported projects. In essence, this tag indicates that a project’s security bug reports are triaged… Read more →
On Tuesday afternoon about 60 people gathered for the RDO BoF (Birds of a Feather) session at OpenStack Summit in Austin. By the way, the term Birds of a Feather comes from the saying "Birds of a feather flock together", which refers to like-minded people gathering. The topics discussed can be found in the agenda. The network was friendly, and… Read more →
I love this time of year – the energy and passion that swells right around an upstream OpenStack release, and the weeks before an OpenStack Summit. Most of the year, people are heads down working on their particular part of the project, but as we near a release, there’s a lot of interest in what’s going on in the larger… Read more →
A week ago in Tokyo, we held the third RDO Community Meetup at the OpenStack Summit. We had about 70 people in attendance, and some good discussion. The full agenda for the meeting is at https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/rdo-tokyo and below are some of the things that were discussed. (The complete recording is at the bottom of this post.) People who were in… Read more →
Once again, OpenStack engineers met to design the Mitaka cycle. Here is a summary of the Security Project and relevant release mangement changes. What is the OpenStack Security Project ? Security issues, tooling, innovations and education within OpenStack are the responsibility of the Security Project. The Security Project undertakes technical and governance activities for the OpenStack community, aiming to provide… Read more →
What does RDO stand for? The RDO FAQ has long said that RDO doesn’t stand for anything. This is a very unsatisfying answer to one of the most frequently asked questions about RDO. So, a little while ago, I started saying that RDO stands for "Rich’s Distribution of OpenStack." Although tongue-in-cheek, this response emphasizes that RDO is a community driven… Read more →
Why ducks? Well, as everyone knows, sometimes, the moment you ask a question out loud, the obvious answer occurs to you. And often, when explaining a problem to someone else, you understand it better yourself. Red Hat has your back on this. We have ducks at our booth at OpenStack Summit in Tokyo this week. The benefits of using a… Read more →
We’ll be having an RDO community meetup during the upcoming OpenStack Summit in Tokyo. It will be during lunch time (12:45 – 14:00) in Sakura Lower Level S-1 and S-2. As at previous Summits, we’ll be gathering to discuss progress during the last six months, and plans for the future. Please add discussion items to the agenda that you’d like… Read more →
I’d like to share a few highlights regarding Swift during last weeks OpenStack Summit in Vancouver. From my experience it was the best summit so far – for Swift as well as overall. Swift usage There were several companies that published their Swift cluster size, with Rackspace still leading with more than a hundred PB. Many more companies run Swift… 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 →