OpenStack Documentation Wrap Up for 2013
It’s that time of the new year to reflect and look for ways to keep improving the OpenStack docs. Here’s a list of major events from 2013 in OpenStack doc-land. Anne Gentle looks at the past year in review.
OpenStack strong at LinuxConfAustralia (LCA)
A full-day miniconf on Tuesday and a bunch of talks in the main conference track:
- Rapid OpenStack Deployment for Novices and Experts Alike by Florian Haas
- Going Global: Building Global Clusters for OpenStack Swift by John Dickinson
- Diskimage-builder: deep dive into a ‘machine compiler’ by Robert Collins
- Provisioning Bare Metal with OpenStack by Devananda van der Veen
- Systems Administration in the Open by Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph
- Continuous Integration for your database migrations by Michael Still
- How OpenStack Improves Code Quality with Project Gating and Zuul by James Blair
- Processing Continuous Integration Log Events for Great Good by Clark Boylan
And there’s at least one talk on third-party testing in the CI miniconf on Monday (schedule still TBD), and maybe more surprises.
Tips ‘n Tricks
- By Cody Bunch: OpenStack on Raspberry Pi: Part 1 – Why? and OpenStack on Raspberry Pi: Part 2 – Getting Started and OpenStack on Raspberry Pi: Part 3 – Packages
Upcoming Events
- Project team leads report: Image, Telemetry, Block Storage Jan 07, 2014 – Webinar Register
- OpenStack Online Meetup Jan 09, 2014 – Webinar Details
- Project team leads report: Orchestration, Dashboard Jan 09, 2014 – Webinar Register
- 3rd OpenStack User Group Nordics meetup Jan 15, 2014 – Stockholm, Sweden Details
- Austin OpenStack User Group Meetup Jan 22, 2014 – Austin, Texas Details
- FOSDEM Feb 01 – 02, 2014 – Bruxelles, Belgium Details
- Austin OpenStack User Group Meetup Feb 19, 2014 – Austin, Texas Details
Reports from previous events
Other News
- OpenStack RDO test day Jan 7-8
- OpenMic Spotlight: Sergey Lukjanov
- VMware Vs. KVM: OpenStack Hypervisor Race Heats Up
- Keystone performance work
- Murano 0.4 Brings You Metadata Repository, Neutron Support
- OpenStack Project Meeting: not yet
Got Answers?
Ask OpenStack is the go-to destination for OpenStack users. Interesting questions waiting for answers:
- Allow non-assigned ipaddresses as src on specific ports
- A spice-html5 error
- how to mention ipv6 based ipaddress in keystone endpoint url
- Deleting an instance fails when instance can’t get network info
- AppArmor preventing Cinder volume from mounting
- nova service-list raises “Error setting Service.id” with nova-cell installed
- How to list iscsi target details like iqn number using cinder client?
- devstack Heat -DNS resolution not working from instance, cloud-init fails
- neutron network cannot be seen by nova
Welcome New Reviewers and Developers
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| Gustavo Franklin Nobrega | Gustavo Franklin Nobrega |
| shihanzhang | shihanzhang |
| Igor A. Lukyanenkov | Igor A. Lukyanenkov |
| Caleb Tennis | Caleb Tennis |
| wanghong | wanghong |
| Babitha | Babitha |
| Yuanchao Sun |
Latest Activity In Projects
Do you want to see at a glance the bugs filed and solved this week? Latest patches submitted for review? Check out the individual project pages on OpenStack Activity Board – Insights.
- Telemetry (Ceilometer)
- Block Storage (Cinder)
- Image Service (Glance)
- Orchestration API (Heat)
- Dashboard (Horizon)
- Bare Metal Provisioning (Ironic)
- Identity (Keystone)
- Manuals
- Networking (Neutron)
- Compute (Nova)
- Hadoop Cluster as a Service (Savanna)
- Object Storage (Swift)
- Database As A Service (Trove)
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