Network Function Virtualization – The Opportunity for OpenStack and Open Source

This week’s launch of OPNFV is a good opportunity to think about a simmering debate in the OpenStack developer community for a while now – what exactly does NFV have to do with OpenStack, and is it a good thing? Follow Boad Member Mark McLoughlin's journey around NFV.

#1 OpenStack contributor: all of us

Thierry Carrez celebrates every little contribution gone into OpenStack. “It doesn't matter who is #1, it matters that we all can contribute, and that we all do contribute. It matters that we keep on making sure everyone can easily contribute. That's what's really important, and I wish we all were celebrating that.”

OpenStack Havana End of Upstream Support Lifetime

The OpenStack Havana 2013.2.4 integrated point release[1] last Tuesday, September 23, marks the end of stable support for OpenStack Havana.

The Road To Paris 2014 – Deadlines and Resources

During the Paris Summit there will be a working session for the Women of OpenStack to frame up more defined goals and line out a blueprint for the group moving forward. We encourage all women in the community to complete this very short survey to provide input for the group.

• Request an invitation letter for VISA
  
• Reserve hotel rooms
  
• Upstream Training in Paris: details and signup form (use the waiting list, we go through it)
• The official Schedule for the Paris Summit is available
  

Relevant Conversations

• A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Summit
  
• The problem space in the big tent
  
• On layers
  
• Answering the existential question in OpenStack
  

Tips ‘n Tricks

• By Adalberto Medeiros: Creating your own CI Environment for OpenStack – Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3
  
• By Daniel P. Berrangé: History of APIs for spawning processes in libvirt without involving the shell and Usage of the libvirt virCommand APIs for process spawning
  
• By Adam Young: Multiple Signers and Wherein our hero attempts to build his own OpenStack Keystone RPMs
  
• By Yves Gwenael: Site to Site OpenVPN in an OpenContrail subnet
  
• By dmsimard: S3QL, a filesystem over HTTP with Openstack Swift and Finding the right Openstack provider (or how to use the OpenStack Marketplace)
• By Priti_Desai: How to configure and run Tempest for testing OpenStack Keystone Identity V3 API?
  
• By Ben Nemec: Debugging Syntax and Import Errors in OpenStack Unit Tests
  
• By Stephane Combaudon: MySQL & OpenStack: How to overcome issues as your dataset grows
  
• By 10: Post #3: Replication and Clustering – A Look ahead
  
• By Lars Kellogg-Stedman: Integrating custom code with Nova using hooks
  

Security Advisories and Notices

• Nova VMware driver still leaks rescued images (CVE-2014-3608)
  
• Cinder-volume host data leak to vm instance (CVE-2014-3641)
  
• Admin-only network attributes may be reset to defaults by non-privileged users (CVE-2014-6414)
  
• [OSSN 0030] Bash 'shellshock' bug can lead to code injection vulnerability
  
• [OSSN 0029] Neutron FWaaS rules lack port restrictions when using protocol 'any'
  
• [OSSN 0028] Nova leaks compute host SMBIOS serial number to guests
  

Upcoming Events

• Gartner Symposium/ITexpo Oct 05 - 09, 2014 - Orlando, FL Details
  
• Telco Cloud World Forum Oct 07 - 09, 2014 - Dallas, TX Details
  
• Network Functions Virtualization Oct 07, 2014 - Paris, FR Details
  
• CloudOpen / LinuxCon Europe Oct 13 - 15, 2014 - Düsseldorf, Germany Details
  
• Futurecom Oct 13 - 16, 2014 - Sao Paolo, Brazil Details
  
• Colorado Meetup – CEPH Oct 14, 2014 - Fort Collins, CO, US Details
  
• ITPro Expo Oct 15 - 17, 2014 - Tokyo, Japan Details
  
• Rakuten Technology Conference Oct 25, 2014 - Tokyo, Japan Details
  
• Japan OpenStack User Group Meetup Oct 27, 2014 - Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JP Details
  
• Open World Forum Oct 30 - Nov 01, 2014 - Paris, France Details
  
• OpenStack Summit November 2014 Nov 03 - 07, 2014 - Paris, France Details
  
• USENIX LISA Nov 09 - 14, 2014 - Seattle, WA Details
  
• Japan OpenStack User Group Meetup Dec 01, 2014 - Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JP Details
  
• Gartner Data Center Conference Dec 02 - 05, 2014 - Las Vegas, NV Details
  

Other News

• Free passes to CloudOpen EU Dusseldorf available for Booth Volunteers
  
• Improving the content of OpenStack wiki
  
• OpenStack Upstream Training challenges
  
• Telcos Mobilizing to Drive NFV Adoption
  
• OpenStack Juno Mid-Cycle Policy Summit
  
• python-congressclient 1.0.0 release!
  
• OpenStack Juno: Continuing Enterprise Maturity
  
• Blueprints implemented in Nova during Juno
  
• OpenStack 2014.1.3 released
  
• Release of python-cinderclient 1.1.1
  
• OpenStack Project Meeting: Summary and full logs.

Got Answers?

Ask OpenStack is the go-to destination for OpenStack users. Interesting questions waiting for answers:

• Installing Devstack on Xenserver triggers a urllib3.connectionpool warning, followed by a 409 Conflict: Cannot upload to an unqueued image.
  
• Failed to notify nova on events - Specified RPC version cap, 3.0, is too low. Needs to be higher than 3.23.
  
• How to add members to image in multi-domain cloud
  
• Why is openvswitch forwarding arp packets between external and internal bridge?
  
• Is there a utility to clean up orphaned resources?
  
• Any options to migrate from xenserver/cloudstack to kvm/openstack?
  
• firewall semantics and connection tracking in Neutron
  
• Is there a utility to clean up orphaned resources?
  
• How to assign the same names to VMs in VCenter and Nova?
  
• How to enable two users to read and write a Swift container with tempauth ACL?
  

Welcome New Reviewers, Developers and Core Reviewers

Welcome new core reviewers: Andreas Jaeger, Anita Kuno and Sean Dague to project-config-core, James Carey to oslo-i18n-core

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