December 2012 - OpenStack-announce

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Dec 21-28)
by Stefano Maffulli 28 Dec '12

28 Dec '12

Highlights of the week Ceilometer bug squash day #1 <http://julien.danjou.info/blog/2012/ceilometer-bug-squash-day-1> What better way to start the new year? The Ceilometer team is pleased to announce <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2012-December/004161.html> that it organizes a bug squashing day on the Friday 4th January 2013 <http://wiki.openstack.org/Ceilometer/BugSquashingDay/20130104>. You can get started by reading how to contribute to Ceilometer <http://wiki.openstack.org/Ceilometer/Contributing>, from updating the documentation, to fixing bugs. There's a lot you can do. Good support for Ceilometer is built into Devstack <http://devstack.org/>, so installing a development platform is really easy. Thinking about the mission of the user committeee <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/foundation/2012-December/001292.html> Narayan Desai started a discussion about the mission of OpenStack Foundation's most important governing body: the User Committee. Any member of the OpenStack Foundation is welcome to chime in and help define the User Committee. Resources for translators of documentation <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-docs/2012-December/000618.ht…> A thread on the OpenStack Documentation mailing list lead to a summary post on how to get started translating OpenStack Manuals. Tips and tricks * By Everett Toews <http://blog.phymata.com/>: Contributing OpenStack Support to jclouds <http://blog.phymata.com/2012/10/03/contributing-openstack-support-to-jcloud…> * By Everett Toews <http://blog.phymata.com/>: jclouds and OpenStack <http://blog.phymata.com/2012/09/04/jclouds-and-openstack/> * By Michael Still <http://www.stillhq.com/>: Image handlers (in essex) <http://www.stillhq.com/openstack/000010.html> Upcoming Events * Minnesota OpenStack: Part 2 <http://www.meetup.com/Minnesota-OpenStack-Meetup/events/94227732/> Jan 07, 2013 -- Minneapolis, MN Details <http://www.meetup.com/Minnesota-OpenStack-Meetup/events/94227732/> * OpenStack DACH Meetup <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-DACH/events/96141772/> Jan 09, 2013 -- Cologne (Köln), Germany Details <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-DACH/events/96141772/> * FOSDEM'13 <https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/cloud/> Feb 02 -- 03, 2013 -- Bruxelles, Belgium Cloud track <https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/cloud/> Other news * Questions and Answers: Storage as a Service with OpenStack Cloud <http://www.mirantis.com/blog/questions-and-answers-about-storage-as-a-servi…> * OpenStack Project Meeting: Summary <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-12-18-21.…> and full logs <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-12-18-21.…> Welcome new contributors Celebrating the first patches submitted this week by: * John Bresnahan, Red Hat * Xing Yang, EMC Bonus Video http://youtu.be/mbcC8Frb_Hc <http://youtu.be/mbcC8Frb_Hc> /The weekly newsletter is a way for the community to learn about all the various activities occurring on a weekly basis. If you would like to add content to a weekly update or have an idea about this newsletter, please leave a comment./

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OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Dec 14-21)
by Stefano Maffulli 21 Dec '12

21 Dec '12

Highlights of the week -- Holiday edition Happy holidays from the whole team at the OpenStack Foundation. We wish you a merry time to spend with your beloved ones. DevStack on openSUSE, or how to quickly setup OpenStack on openSUSE <http://www.vuntz.net/journal/post/2012/12/21/DevStack-on-openSUSE%2C-or-how…> DevStack is a set of shell scripts to build complete OpenStack development environments. It is useful to create a small OpenStack environment that will be used for hacking, testing, etc. and is therefore primarily used for upstream development. Vincent Untz got DevStack to work on openSUSE. Ten Useful Openstack Swift Features <http://www.17od.com/2012/12/19/ten-useful-openstack-swift-features/> Adrian Smith goes through some of the new features introduced in Swift 1.7.5 and their implication. If you want to learn about CORS support <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/misc.html#cors-headers>, Etag, Object versioning and other nice features read his post. Introducing OpenStack Packstack <http://goodsquishy.com/2012/12/introducing-openstack-packstack/> Derek Higgins developed a tool that is capable of installing OpenStack in a distributed environment using some of the most common configurations. Packstack can be used to transform Fedora 17/18, RHEL 6 or CentOS 6 servers into a functional Openstack Folsom deployment. The tool ssh's onto each server and apply's puppet manifests to set openstack up. On his blog post Derek outlines how to use his Packstack on Fedora 17. A look at individual membership in the OpenStack Foundation <http://www.mirantis.com/blog/a-look-at-individual-membership-in-the-opensta…> It's no secret that I like numbers and charts. If you like them too, then David Fishman's post is a must read for the holidays. Davide took a snapshot of the membership of the OpenStack Foundation using the publicly available data. Who are these people and what are their affiliations? What if anything does it say about the use and uptake of OpenStack cloud? What doesn't it say? And, like any data, what other useful questions does it raise? Remember that the OpenStack Foundation elections are coming <http://www.openstack.org/election/2013-board-election/> and the holidays may be a good time to get to know the candidates <http://www.openstack.org/election/2013-board-election/CandidateList> for the Board of Directors. An <http://martin-paulo.blogspot.com.au/2012/12/earlier-this-month-i-gave-talk-…>Introduction To OpenStack <http://martin-paulo.blogspot.com.au/2012/12/earlier-this-month-i-gave-talk-…> Martin Paulo introduced OpenStack to a new group of people. He collected and published his notes: I believe his work can be very useful for other OpenStack speakers. Tips and tricks * By Sébastien Han <http://sebastien-han.fr/>:Where does my instance run? <http://sebastien-han.fr/blog/2012/12/20/where-does-my-instance-run/> * By Christian Berendt <http://www.cberendt.de/>: Allocation of multiple VLAN ranges on one physical network <http://www.cberendt.de/2012/12/allocation-of-multiple-vlan-ranges-on-one-ph…> * By Michael Still <http://www.stillhq.com/>: Some quick operational notes for users of loop and nbd devices <http://www.stillhq.com/openstack/000009.html> Upcoming Events * OpenStack China Tour: Wuhan <http://hui.csdn.net/MeetingInfo.aspx?mid=157> Dec 22, 2012 -- Wuhan, China Details <http://hui.csdn.net/MeetingInfo.aspx?mid=157> * Minnesota OpenStack: Part 2 <http://www.meetup.com/Minnesota-OpenStack-Meetup/events/94227732/> Jan 07, 2013 -- Minneapolis, MN Details <http://www.meetup.com/Minnesota-OpenStack-Meetup/events/94227732/> * FOSDEM'13 <https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/cloud/> Feb 02 -- 03, 2013 -- Bruxelles, Belgium Cloud track <https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/cloud/> Other news * The new OpenStack Marketing team has its own wiki page http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Foundation/Marketing with good details * Horizon Hyper-V RDP console access <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2012-December/004008.html> * Report from past events: o Event Report: OpenStack Day, Bangalore, India <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/12/event-report-openstack-day-bangalore-…> * OpenStack Project Meeting: Summary <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-12-11-21.…> and full logs <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-12-11-21.…> Welcome new contributors Celebrating the first patches submitted this week by: * Harika Vakadi, Persistent * Ben Andrews * Walter A. Boring IV, HP * Therese McHale, HP Bonus Video Overview of OpenStack and the OpenStack Foundation by Mark Collier: http://youtu.be/dclcFiVvO7g /The weekly newsletter is a way for the community to learn about all the various activities //occurring on a weekly basis. If you would like to add content to a weekly update or have an idea about this newsletter, please leave a comment./

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OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Nov 30 – Dic 14)
by Stefano Maffulli 14 Dec '12

14 Dec '12

Highlights of the weeks What people talk about when they talk about OpenStack Cloud <http://www.mirantis.com/blog/what-people-talk-about-when-they-talk-about-op…> There’s enough going on in the OpenStack <http://www.mirantis.com/openstack-services/> ecosystem that you can pretty much find a comfortable niche drilling down on anything from hypervisor compatibility to driver support to who’s in the foundation. Mirantis’ David M. Fishman takes a step back and highlights recent conversations about OpenStack. *Welcome New Outreach Program for Women Interns <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/12/welcome-new-outreach-program-for-wome…>* With a flurry of applications, we had a difficult decision in front of us, deciding who would be our newest mentored contributors through the GNOME Outreach Program for Women <https://live.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen>. All the applicants were enthusiastic and personable, knowledgeable and technical. We’re pleased to announce that the decisions have been made and these three are going to work on OpenStack full-time from January to March. Please welcome Laura, Anita and Victoria to the OpenStack community. *Making sense of SDN with–and without–HW-based networking in OpenStack Cloud <http://www.mirantis.com/blog/making-sense-of-sdn-with-and-without-hw-based-…>* There’s a tremendous amount of talk about the shift in the networking business from hardware-bound networking to Software Defined Network. Mirantis’ Greg Elkinbard gives an overview of SDN in OpenStack world. *OpenStack Board of Directors Talks: Episode 1 with Rob Hirschfeld, Principal Cloud Architect at Dell <http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/b/techcenter/archive/2012/12/06/ope…>* Learn firsthand about OpenStack, its challenges and opportunities, market adoption and Dell’s engagement in the community. Rafael Knuth’s goal is to interview all 24 members of the OpenStack board, and will post these talks sequentially at Dell TechCenter. Security Advisories * CVE-2012-5625 : Information leak in libvirt LVM-backed instances <http://secstack.org/2012/12/cve-2012-5625-information-leak-in-libvirt-lvm-b…> Tips and tricks * By Adam Young <http://adam.younglogic.com/>: Reviewing Code <http://adam.younglogic.com/2012/12/reviewing-code/> * By Adam Young <http://adam.younglogic.com/>: Keystone and Eclipse PyDev <http://adam.younglogic.com/2012/12/keystone-and-eclipse-pydev/> * By Adam Young <http://adam.younglogic.com/>: What changed in that latest patch? <http://adam.younglogic.com/2012/12/what-changed/> * By Sébastien Han <http://sebastien-han.fr/>: Cleanup keystone tokens <http://sebastien-han.fr/blog/2012/12/12/cleanup-keystone-tokens/> * By Alessandro Pilotti <http://www.cloudbase.it/>: Cinder-Volume on Windows Storage Server 2012 <http://www.cloudbase.it/cinder-volume-on-windows-storage-server-2012/> * By Hui Cheng <http://freedomhui.com/>: How To Use Hadoop Image In Openstack Cloud <http://freedomhui.com/2012/12/how-to-use-hadoop-image-in-openstack-based-sy…> * By Sébastien Han <http://sebastien-han.fr/>: OpenStack: perform consistent snapshots <http://sebastien-han.fr/blog/2012/12/10/openstack-perform-consistent-snapsh…> * By Sébastien Han <http://sebastien-han.fr/>: Openstack and rsyslog <http://sebastien-han.fr/blog/2012/12/05/openstack-and-rsyslog/> * By Alessandro Pilotti <http://www.cloudbase.it/>: Cloud-Init for Windows instances <http://www.cloudbase.it/cloud-init-for-windows-instances/> * By Mirantis <http://www.mirantis.com/>: Using an orchestrator to improve Puppet-driven deployment of OpenStack <http://www.mirantis.com/blog/orchestrator-puppet-driven-deployment-openstac…> Upcoming Events * India OpenStack Day <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/12/announcing-openstack-day-15-december-…> Dec 15, 2012 – Bangalore, India Details <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/12/announcing-openstack-day-15-december-…> * OpenStack China Tour: Wuhan <http://hui.csdn.net/MeetingInfo.aspx?mid=157> Dec 22, 2012 – Wuhan, China Details <http://hui.csdn.net/MeetingInfo.aspx?mid=157> Other news * My (Very) Minor Contribution to OpenStack Bug Squashing Day <http://blog.phymata.com/2012/12/13/my-very-minor-contribution-to-openstack-…> * *Image Building Service Demo <http://blogs.gnome.org/markmc/2012/12/12/image-building-service-demo/>* * *RabbitMQ in Nova [2] <http://freedomhui.com/2012/12/rabbitmq-in-nova-2-2/>* * *Altai v1.0.2 is out <http://openstackgd.wordpress.com/2012/12/07/altai-v1-0-2-is-out/> and What’s New in Altai 1.0.2 from Maintainer’s Point of View <http://openstackgd.wordpress.com/2012/12/06/whats-new-in-altai-1-0-2-from-m…>* * *Welcome Claire and Jim <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/foundation/2012-December/001285.html>* * *OpenStack Nova 2012.2.2 released <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2012-December/00006…>* * Report from past events: o OpenStack in action 3! The Open Revolution / Paris, November 29th, 2012 <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/12/openstack-in-action-3-the-open-revolu…> o 1st Swiss OpenStack User Group <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/12/1st-swiss-openstack-user-group/> o 1^st Minnesota Meeting: OpenStack, Community, and You <http://www.siliconloons.com/?p=367> o 37th Open Technet Korea Dope’n'stack cloud antehm <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifjSyy2l22Y> * OpenStack Project Meeting: Summary <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-12-11-21.…> and full logs <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-12-11-21.…> Welcome new contributors Celebrating the first patches submitted this week by: * Pavel Kravchenko and Alexey Roytman, IBM * Boris Pavlovic * Cian O’Driscoll, HP * Mana Kaneko * Andrew Glen-Young, Canonical * zhoudongshu * Yufang Zhang * Qiang Guan, Netease * Rohan Rhishikesh Kanade, NTT Data /The weekly newsletter is a way for the community to learn about all the various activities occurring on a weekly basis. If you would like to add content to a weekly update or have an idea about this newsletter, please leave a comment./

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[ANNOUNCE] OpenStack Nova 2012.2.2 released
by Mark McLoughlin 13 Dec '12

13 Dec '12

Hey, In the time since the Folsom release, we have been busy selectively back-porting bugfixes to the stable/folsom branch according to our "safe source of high-impact fixes" criteria documented here: http://wiki.openstack.org/StableBranch We're now announcing the 2012.2.2 release of Nova, a snap release containing a security fix and a fix for a serious regression in 2012.2.1. This release is a bugfix update to Folsom and is intended to be relatively risk free with no intentional regressions or API changes. The list of bugs fixed can be seen here: https://launchpad.net/nova/folsom/2012.2.2 Please read (and add to!) the release notes at: http://wiki.openstack.org/ReleaseNotes/2012.2.2 Enjoy! Mark.

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[OSSA 2012-020] Information leak in libvirt LVM-backed instances (CVE-2012-5625)
by Thierry Carrez 11 Dec '12

11 Dec '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 OpenStack Security Advisory: 2012-020 CVE: CVE-2012-5625 Date: December 11, 2012 Title: Information leak in libvirt LVM-backed instances Reporter: Eric Windisch (Cloudscaling) Products: Nova Affects: Folsom, Grizzly Description: Eric Windisch from Cloudscaling reported a vulnerability in libvirt LVM-backed instances. The physical volume content was not wiped out before being reallocated and passed to an instance, which may result in the disclosure of information from previously-allocated logical volumes. Only setups using libvirt and LVM-backed instances (libvirt_images_type=lvm) are affected. Grizzly (development branch) fix: http://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/9d2ea970422591f8cdc394001be9a2deca4… Folsom fix (included in upcoming Nova 2012.2.2 stable update): http://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/a99a802e008eed18e39fc1d98170edc495c… References: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1070539 http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2012-5625 - -- Thierry Carrez (ttx) OpenStack Vulnerability Management Team -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJQx4DRAAoJEFB6+JAlsQQj5sEP/2osrfWvooWEeQbhnHGIp7yg GRR1BdPqqnBqBT4lzXp1B6O23l4LqSjKVC1X3r3zs2VqUcsZwTiJJz3FmPFlr0xZ 5BSSrg4GWo+If0atGqsWwOabTzuOZqCoFe16uXghtBwjmceZBjUOhra4mfnW+VtO xVc9eXiREEnxkHFHVPVuNnAxdxgoYin8Nw0NaOs+uZ9ehTjv2h0/81FNGNy3Rw5Y TPJOq3YFrneAK5GEL/srhV+3V6LnRKXqlPIhFbw5wqO+WlHZWOHnayL/hQZaivdF gYiuaTkwU2d6yKbasy+q9flreylZbtllcj1p3IGvoAFbTSA3u2l3AeElqnx6D+ak ULxIpLQGlBzabiUDLpSe+9t/gv7bY7qcf+Ec1u6DsgRpN/GhHHwBKykzoQwvTPS/ Of+CfmJj39NJarepUHMO7GMVUu/BYkQm4EnfPAnP8X8Gz5/0xJjo2ue7vnx8yuxC M7CPxWx3pZanC98n1omF5GvRlcdWECmbcP7NYynXhrROOw8mgXAs+Eh77mD94flk iZULo5fOJDShCVY+LmekzHix9WNRQSWxceAMYHrlNLo/H4zN5DWo063xgxYlSuNI +jfJ6DtqePjjG+c9tDcpVG9/OMxpyN8CKoWDSVWwdkTega3a7e1AAf9xEj0jT1jd OC2iQxz1crzjL1CV9z3J =CE4b -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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