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<h2>Highlights of the week</h2>
<h3><a
href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/04/openstack-grizzly/">OpenStack
Grizzly</a></h3>
<p>Done: OpenStack’s 7th release, called “Grizzly”, is out: thank
you, the over 500 stackers who contributed and the many more who
participated in the OpenStack Summit last October where this
release was planned. This release, more than any before it, was
driven by users who have been running OpenStack in production
for the past year (or more) and have asked for broader support
for the compute, storage, and networking technologies they trust
and even greater scale and ease of operations. <a
href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/04/openstack-grizzly/">Mark
Collier’s</a> post has a summary of the new features and a
screencast of the updated OpenStack Dashboard.</p>
<h4><a
href="http://blog.aaronorosen.com/building-a-multi-tier-application-with-openstack/">Building
a Multi-Tier Application With OpenStack</a></h4>
<p>In his blog post <a href="http://blog.aaronorosen.com/">Aaron
Rosen</a> shows how to build a simple multi-tier application
on OpenStack, something that is made possible by the new
features of OpenStack Grizzly: security groups and about
Load-balancer-as-a-Service (LBaaS).</p>
<h3><a
href="http://technicae.cogitat.io/2013/04/autoscale-and-orchestration-heat-of.html">Autoscale
and Orchestration: the Heat of OpenStack</a></h3>
<p>Duncan McGreggor tells the story of how OpenStack orchestration
service (codename Heat) is gaining new autoscaling features
thanks to increased efforts by Rackspace. Following discussions
at Pycon, Rackspace’s management decided to add two development
teams to Heat and add some of the features that initially they
were developing internally. Another good story of different
companies collaborating inside the OpenStack Community.</p>
<h3><a
href="http://blog.hendrikvolkmer.de/2013/04/03/there-will-be-no-reliable-cloud-part-1/">There
will be no reliable cloud (part 1)</a></h3>
<p>It’s the eternal debate about cloud and high availability,
legacy enterprise applications and chaos monkeys. <a
href="http://blog.hendrikvolkmer.de/">Hendrik Volkmer</a>
shares his thoughts, summarised in “Stop wasting your time
trying to find one”. His suggestion: With all that free time,
start to build reliable systems on top of unreliable clouds.</p>
<h3><a
href="http://fnords.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/grizzly-the-day-after/">Grizzly,
the day after</a></h3>
<p>Thierry’s, our fine release manager, wrote his therapeutic
post-release essay, balancing the excitement of the new release
and the sadness of all the things that could have done better.
Put on relaxing music, sit back on the chair and listen like any
therapist would do.</p>
<h2>Tips and Tricks</h2>
<ul>
<li>By <a href="http://swiftstack.com/">SwiftStack Team</a>: <a
href="http://swiftstack.com/blog/2013/04/02/using-cors-with-swift/">Using
CORS with Swift</a></li>
<li>By <a href="http://www.stillhq.com/">Michael Still</a>: <a
href="http://www.stillhq.com/openstack/havana/000001.html">Merged
in Havana: configurable iptables drop actions in nova</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Upcoming Events</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.openstack.org/summit/portland-2013/"
target="_blank">OpenStack Summit April 2013</a> Apr 15 – 18,
2013 – Portland, OR <a
href="http://www.openstack.org/summit/portland-2013/"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://www.meetup.com/meetup-group-NjZdcegA/events/108730682/"
target="_blank">Beers / Summit Debrief / Internally
Promoting OpenStack</a> Apr 24, 2013 – Chicago, IL <a
href="http://www.meetup.com/meetup-group-NjZdcegA/events/108730682/"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-DACH/events/108876542/"
target="_blank">OpenStack meeting in Cologne</a> May 04,
2013 – Cologne, Germany <a
href="http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-DACH/events/108876542/"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/3/prweb10526716.htm"
target="_blank">OpenStack DACH Day</a> May 24, 2013 – Berlin
Fairgrounds <a
href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/3/prweb10526716.htm"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.meetup.com/IGTCloud/events/99146542/"
target="_blank">OpenStack Israel</a> May 27, 2013 –
Tel-Aviv, Israel <a
href="http://www.meetup.com/IGTCloud/events/99146542/"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.openstack.org/" target="_blank">OpenStack
CEE Day</a> May 29, 2013 – Budapest <a
href="http://www.openstack.org/" target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://www.meetup.com/meetup-group-NjZdcegA/events/108731562/"
target="_blank">Building an OpenStack Cloud</a> May 30, 2013
– Chicago, IL <a
href="http://www.meetup.com/meetup-group-NjZdcegA/events/108731562/"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://www.meetup.com/openstack-de/events/109700562/"
target="_blank">OpenStack meeting in Munich</a> Jun 11, 2013
– Munich, Germany <a
href="http://www.meetup.com/openstack-de/events/109700562/"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a href="http://event.gigaom.com/structure/" target="_blank">GigaOM
Structure</a> Jun 19 – 20, 2013 – San Francisco, CA <a
href="http://event.gigaom.com/structure/" target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.oscon.com/oscon2013" target="_blank">OSCON
2013</a> Jul 22 – 26, 2013 – Portland, OR <a
href="http://www.oscon.com/oscon2013" target="_blank">Details</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Reports from past events</h2>
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/04/vietnam-openstack-meetup-3/">Vietnam
OpenStack Meetup 3</a></li>
<li>DreamHost’s collection of presentations from <a
href="http://dreamhost.com/dreamscape/2013/04/02/on-stage-at-pycon-2013/">PyCon
2013</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/04/3rd-swiss-openstack-user-group-meetup/">3rd
Swiss OpenStack User Group Meetup</a></li>
<li><a href="http://rafstack.tumblr.com/post/47179669042">Interview
with Cloudscaling’s Eric Windisch on the Simplicity Scales
engineering blog</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Other News</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://cloudifysource.tumblr.com/post/47011535593">Hear
what’s new in OpenStack technology at OpenStack Israel May
27</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://engineering.cloudscaling.com/2013/04/announcing-python3-compat-team/">Announcing
the Python3 Compatibility Team</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2013-April/007135.html">Announcing:
OpenStack Security Mailing List </a></li>
<li><a
href="http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2013-April/007116.html">New
Reviewday location</a>: <a
href="http://status.openstack.org/reviews/">http://status.openstack.org/reviews/</a></li>
<li>OpenStack Project Meeting: <a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-04-02-21.02.html">Summary</a>
and <a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-04-02-21.02.log.html">full
logs</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Got questions?</h2>
<p><a href="https://ask.openstack.org/">Ask OpenStack</a> is the
go-to destination for OpenStack users.</p>
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