DefCore Core Capabilities Selection Criteria SIMPLIFIED -> how we are picking Core
Rob Hirschfeld summarizes the status of discussions within OpenStack community of what is ‘Openstack’. The effort is now summarized in a diagram showing the 12 criterias grouped in 4 main categories. Better go read Rob’s post, it’ll all make sense.
Announcing the O’Reilly OpenStack Operations Guide
O’Reilly has completed the production of the OpenStack Operations Guide: Set Up and Manage Your OpenStack Cloud. You can get your bits-n-bytes copy at http://docs.openstack.org/ops/ or order a dead-tree version on the O’Reilly site.
What It Means To Be In The OpenStack Community (One Member’s Take)
What is Kenneth Hui, Rackspace Technology Evangelist, deeply committed member of OpenStack, doing at a CloudStack conference? Read his blog post to find out what it means to be a good citizen of a community.
Results of the TC Election
Please join me in congratulating the 7 newly elected members of the TC: Thierry Carrez, Jay Pipes, Vishvananda Ishaya, Michael Still, Jim Blair, Mark McClain, Devananda van der Veen. Full results: Full results.
The road to Juno Summit – Atlanta 2014
- Applying for Visa? Looking for accommodation in Atlanta? Visit http://openstack.org/summit
- Check the official agenda
Tips ‘n Tricks
- By Assaf Muller: Introduction to Neutron
- By Ramon Acedo: Multiple Private Networks with Open vSwitch GRE Tunnels and Libvirt
- By dudo: Manage instance startup order in OpenStack Heat Templates
- By Loïc Dachary: Two minor pitfalls when upgrading Havana stable and Resetting an instance {power,vm,task}_state in Havana
- By Sean Dague: Helpful Gerrit Queries (Gerrit 2.8 edition)
- By Rob Hirschfeld: Success Factors of Operating Open Source Infrastructure [Series Intro] and Reference Deployments are Critical [2/4 series on Operating Open Source Infrastructure]
- By Piyush Harsh: Managing hosts in a running OpenStack environment
- By Nathan Kinder: Secure messaging with Kite
- By Andy Edmonds: Getting Started with OpenShift and OpenStack
Reports from Previous Events
- What’s new in the OpenStack Heat Icehouse release
- Asia Pacific: How to launch, run & grow OpenStack User Groups
Upcoming Events
- OpenStack Brasil User Group Meeting @ FISL15 May 07 – 10, 2014 – Porto Alegre, Brasil Details
- OpenStack DACH Day at LinuxTag 2014 May 09, 2014 – Berlin, Germany Details
- OpenStack Summit May 2014 May 12 – 16, 2014 – Atlanta, GA Details
- SFBay OpenStack Hackathon #OSSFO May 15, 2014 – Details
- Gartner IT Infrastructure Operations & Data Center Summit May 21 – 22, 2014 – Sydney, Australia Details
- OpenStack Study Group May 21, 2014 – Brooklyn, NY Details
- OpenStack in Action May 28, 2014 – Paris, France Details
- OpenStack CEE Day May 28, 2014 – Budapest, Hungary Details
- SFBay OpenStack Hackathon #OSSFO May 29, 2014 – Details
- #1 OpenStack Day May 30, 2014 – Milan, Italy Details
- OpenStack Israel Event Jun 02, 2014 – Herzliya, Israel Details
- OpenStack UK Day in London Jun 04, 2014 – London, UK Details
- SFBay Meetup – Beginner track Jun 05, 2014 – Sunnyvale, CA Details
- SFBay OpenStack Hackathon #OSSFO Jun 12, 2014 – Details
- Cloud World Forum Jun 17 – 18, 2014 – London, UK Details
- Cloud World Forum Jun 17 – 18, 2014 – London, UK Details
- SFBay Meetup – Beginner track Jul 03, 2014 – Sunnyvale, CA Details
- OSCON Jul 20 – 24, 2014 – Portland, Oregon Details
- SFBay Meetup – Beginner track Aug 07, 2014 – Sunnyvale, CA Details
- OpenStack Summit November 2014 Nov 03 – 08, 2014 – Paris, France Details
Other News
- OpenStack, Icehouse and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 – Available Now
- Oracle adds OpenStack to updated Solaris
- Updated: SUSE Cloud 3 Admin Appliance 1.2.0 available
- Project Solum Goes Full Steam Ahead To Milestone 1
- #OpenStack Israel Podcast – Episode 9 is out!
- Nagios / Ceilometer integration: new plugin available
- Improving libvirt firewall performance
- Why We Craft OpenStack (Featuring Rackspace Software Development Manager Glen Campbell)
- Why We Craft OpenStack (Featuring Rackspace Principal Engineer Chuck Thier)
- Open Mic Spotlight: Lucas Gomes
- Networking in Cloud Environments, SDN, NFV, and why it matters [part 1 of 2]
- KVM and Docker LXC Benchmarking with OpenStack
- OpenCrowbar.Anvil released – hammering out a gold standard in open bare metal provisioning
- HP is running a survey for release at the Summit
- OpenStack Project Meeting: didn’t happen this week
Got Answers?
Ask OpenStack is the go-to destination for OpenStack users. Interesting questions waiting for answers:
- What causes ‘Namespace’ object has no attribute ‘volume’ restoring a Cinder backup?
- How to use filtering queries in Ceilometer via CLI?
- Unable to load quantum from configuration file /etc/neutron/api-paste.ini – Icehouse
- Configure multiple External network
- Instance not taking IP form The DHCP and Gateway router external port down?
Welcome New Reviewers and Developers
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)
- Data Processing (Sahara)
- Object Storage (Swift)
- Database As A Service (Trove
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