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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#373737'>OpenStack Community,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#373737'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#373737'>If you’re following along on Crowbar OpenStack deployments (or just looking to learn about Havana Ops), the following should be interesting…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#373737'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#373737'>Snip from post: http://wp.me/pF6d2-EV<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#373737'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#373737'>The Crowbar community [http://crowbar.github.io] has a<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://robhirschfeld.com/2013/05/17/crowbar-cuts-openstack-grizzly/" target="_parent" title="Crowbar cuts OpenStack Grizzly (“pebbles”) branch & seeks community testing"><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#1982D1;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>tradition of “day zero ops”</span></a>community support for the<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.openstack.org/software/havana/" target="_parent"><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#1982D1;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>latest OpenStack release</span></a><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>at the summit using our pull-from-source capability. This release we’ve really gone the extra mile by doing it one THREE Linux distros (Ubuntu, RHEL & SLES) in parallel with a significant number of projects and new capabilities included.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;outline: 0px;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#373737'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#373737'>I’m especially excited about Crowbar implementation of Havana Docker support which required advanced configuration with Nova and Glance. The community also added Heat and Celiometer in the last release cycle plus High Availability (“Titanium”) deployment work is in active development. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#373737'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><i><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#373737'>While<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://en.community.dell.com/dell-blogs/enterprise/b/inside-enterprise-it/archive/2013/10/24/hong-kong-beckons-all-stackers-rackers-and-hackers.aspx" target="_parent"><span style='color:#1982D1;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>my team at Dell</span></a> remains a significant contributor to this work, I’m proud to point out to<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="https://www.suse.com/products/suse-cloud/" target="_parent"><span style='color:#1982D1;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>SUSE Cloud</span></a><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>leadership and contributions also (including the new Ceph barclamp & integration). Crowbar has become a true multi-party framework!<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><i><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#373737'> <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#373737'>Want to learn more? If you’re in Hong Kong, we are hosting a<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://dellcrowbarmeeting.eventbrite.com/" target="_parent"><b><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#1982D1;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Crowbar Developer Community Meetup</span></b></a> on Monday, November 4, 2013, 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM (HKT) in the SkyCity Marriott SkyZone Meeting Room. Dell, dotCloud/Docker, SUSE and others will lead a lively technical session to review and discuss the latest updates, advantages and future plans for the Crowbar Operations Platform. You can expect to see some live code demos, and participate in a review of the results of a recent Crowbar 2 hackathon. <a href="http://dellcrowbarmeeting.eventbrite.com/" target="_parent"><b><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#1982D1;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Confirm your seat here – space is limited!</span></b></a> (I expect that we’ll also stream this event using Google Hangout, watch Twitter #Crowbar for the feed)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#444444'>Rob<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#444444'>______________________________<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#444444'>Rob Hirschfeld<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#444444'>Sr. Distinguished Cloud Solution Architect<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#0085C3'>Dell</span></b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#444444'> | Cloud Edge, Data Center Solutions<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#444444'>blog</span></b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#444444'> robhirschfeld.com, <b>twitter</b> @zehicle<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#444444'>Please note, I am based in the CENTRAL (-6) time zone <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>