The OpenStack community that helped create the Kilo release has done some seriously heavy lifting. For the 11th release, there were more contributors, more companies involved and more work across time zones than ever before.
Steve Hardy provides an overview of Heat's Software Configuration resources, as a preface to digging in more detail into the structure of TripleO heat templates, which leverage SoftwareConfig functionality to install and configure the deployed OpenStack cloud.
A description of architectural details and differences between Ceph and Swift by Christian Huebner. A useful preview of his talk on the same topic at the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver.
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