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OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Jan 25 – Feb 1)
by Stefano Maffulli 02 Feb '13

02 Feb '13

Highlights of the week "H" stands for Havana <https://launchpad.net/%7Eopenstack/+poll/h-release-naming> The polls closed, *Havana* will be the code name for the OpenStack release following Grizzly. Contributing to OpenStack <http://www.icchasethi.com/?p=18> Rackspace’s Iccha Sethi conducted a workshop on Contributing to OpenStack. Look at the presentation on her blog. Quota Project: An effective way to manage the usage of your Swift-based storage cloud <http://www.zmanda.com/blogs/?p=1043> Quota is a production-ready project that is mainly used for controlling the usage of account and containers in OpenStack Swift. The Zmanda team talks about Swift Quota which has been used in StackLab <http://stacklab.org/>– a production public cloud for users to try out. OpenStack 2012.2.3 released <http://markmail.org/message/bgpbjlpadqjle57e> In the time since the Folsom release, the maintainer of OpenStack stable branch have been busy selectively back-porting bugfixes to the *stable*/folsom branch according to our “safe source of high-impact fixes” criteria <http://wiki.openstack.org/StableBranch>. These releases are bugfix updates to Folsom and are intended to be relatively risk free with no intentional regressions or API changes. Read the full Release Notes <http://wiki.openstack.org/ReleaseNotes/2012.2.3>. Access OpenStack Swift as an FTP/SFTP service <https://github.com/chmouel/ftp-cloudfs> ftp-cloudfs is a proxy service that can be used to access to the object storage with any regular FTP client. The project is mature now and it’s in production at Memset and other cloud storage providers. Sftp-cloudfs offers similar abstraction but for the SFTP. The code is on github for both projects https://github.com/chmouel/ftp-cloudfs and https://github.com/Memset/sftpcloudfs Looking for active reviewers — and inclusion in QA-core <http://markmail.org/message/wce54eimw6oowo2y> As the OpenStack projects grow, so does *Tempest*. While the team has been successful recently in improving the runtime of *Tempest* and getting full test suite runs gating other projects, the number of new code submissions to *Tempest* has exploded recently as more contributors find their way to *Tempest*. What this means is that the team needs more people that do reviews. Security Advisories * Backend password leak in Glance error message (CVE-2013-0212) <http://markmail.org/message/r2vvh6c4vw22hlr4> * Boot from volume allows access to random volumes (CVE-2013-0208) <http://markmail.org/message/xyezeqgexg2dbqzh> Tips and tricks * By Laura Alves <http://ladquin.dreamwidth.org/>: Let’s get technical: RESTful APIs <http://ladquin.dreamwidth.org/982.html> Upcoming Events * FOSDEM’13 <https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/cloud/> Feb 02 – 03, 2013 – Bruxelles, Belgium Cloud track <https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/cloud/> * OpenStack Mini-Conf at gnuNify <http://gnunify.in/2013/events/OpenStack_Mini_Conf> Feb 15, 2013 – Pune, India Details <http://gnunify.in/2013/event/OpenStack_Mini_Conf> * Second Swiss OpenStack User Group Meeting <http://www.meetup.com/zhgeeks/events/97648722/> Feb 19, 2013 – Zurich, Switzerland Details <http://www.meetup.com/zhgeeks/events/97648722/> * SCALE 11x <https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale11x/> Feb 22 – 24, 2013 – Los Angeles, CA Details <https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale11x/> * Pulse 2013 <https://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/pulse/agenda/index.html> Mar 03 – 06, 2013 – Las Vegas, NV Details <https://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/pulse/agenda/index.html> * OpenStack Day Tokyo 2013 <http://openstack.jp/events/osdt2013.html> Mar 12, 2013 – Tokyo, Japan Details <http://openstack.jp/events/osdt2013.html> * OpenStack Developers Meetup <http://www.meetup.com/openstack-atlanta/> Feb 21, 2013 – Atlanta, GA Details <http://www.meetup.com/openstack-atlanta/> * OpenStack Israel <http://www.openstack.org/> May 27, 2013 – Tel-Aviv, Israel Coming Soon <http://www.openstack.org/> Other news * Mark McLoughlin’s notes from his First Board Meeting <http://blogs.gnome.org/markmc/2013/01/31/first-board-meeting/> * OpenStack Board of Directors Talks: Episode 6 with Tim Bell, Infrastructure Manager at CERN <http://rafstack.tumblr.com/post/41937749759> * OpenStack Project Meeting: Summary <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-01-29-21.…> and full logs <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-01-29-21.…>. Welcome new contributors Celebrating the first patches submitted this week by: * Paul Michali, Cisco * Motonobu Ichimura * umamohan, HP * Roman Prykhodchenko, Mirantis /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 2012.2.3 released
by Mark McLoughlin 01 Feb '13

01 Feb '13

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 happy to announce the 2012.2.3 release, the latest in the series of releases to make available the bugfixes from stable/folsom. These releases are bugfix updates to Folsom and are intended to be relatively risk free with no intentional regressions or API changes. A total of 51 bugs have been fixed in this release. The list of bugs fixed can be seen here: https://launchpad.net/nova/folsom/2012.2.3 https://launchpad.net/glance/folsom/2012.2.3 https://launchpad.net/keystone/folsom/2012.2.3 https://launchpad.net/cinder/folsom/2012.2.3 https://launchpad.net/quantum/folsom/2012.2.3 https://launchpad.net/horizon/folsom/2012.2.3 Please read (and add to!) the release notes at: http://wiki.openstack.org/ReleaseNotes/2012.2.3 Enjoy! Mark.

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[OSSA 2013-002] Backend password leak in Glance error message (CVE-2013-0212)
by Thierry Carrez 30 Jan '13

30 Jan '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 OpenStack Security Advisory: 2013-002 CVE: CVE-2013-0212 Date: January 29, 2013 Title: Backend password leak in Glance error message Reporter: Dan Prince (Red Hat) Products: Glance Affects: All versions Dan Prince of Red Hat discovered an issue in Glance error reporting. By creating an image in Glance by URL that references a mis-configured Swift endpoint, or if the Swift endpoint that a previously-ACTIVE image references for any reason becomes unusable, an authenticated user may access the Glance operator's Swift credentials for that endpoint. Only setups that use the single-tenant Swift store are affected. Grizzly (development branch) fix: http://github.com/openstack/glance/commit/e96273112b5b5da58d970796b7cfce04c… Folsom fix (included in upcoming Glance 2012.2.3 stable update): http://github.com/openstack/glance/commit/96a470be64adcef97f235ca96ed3c59ed… Essex fix: http://github.com/openstack/glance/commit/37d4d96bf88c2bf3e7e9511b5e321cf4b… References: https://bugs.launchpad.net/glance/+bug/1098962 http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2013-0212 - -- 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/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJRCCvqAAoJEFB6+JAlsQQj9scP/1bQzhQ5lA/jNoPIPMlUKOr4 NlrT9+QA6pF3xOjTQeyViTTUfMn1YHdOTS8bi/NeSlL3UuEhpdCb59APwqmZva3u Tx+so6L3nc5qNRdDAAr6oNBYmD08T41ceLpzjv9BbTgPxD4gUCg9WeySBAa+I7MU 1w1hvhObhQWZ8Xvqf/2tKTrMpGuJOS/0aoMSQUMqFR47moyYgBznNT6J3FaC3haE jRh4RSv7XKN2MU0Cv05m/txXNUTP6rtl+qAiGW9UZvhTHY/kafaJLi/HuGkmANf0 fkuoKL5VxFYoIbHDlJ+ymPUz/jgoZJNkvvmS5mQH7YFBdgAvzAIAYJ4jk8uOMMmo AHqaVdfZYCWRP6pMDzjnU5EGhRrgt2RafWsnU8MyYePrF3G8dcikvQlIki+PlmPT +zXjPoIsirFJh3XSTRNbUDwIww6AuBbhxgJD78NhQY/12MC5zELOasWcpTKPyvLs HTIe8AbVLf5Z0blZdUZHGlzFBQlgPU3ydIjY1UStWPYNCQs2hTrtoq9y68LmDzix jRQ3jmKhMGsLwlrcskSyD/1qGGD6NNPRJwME7pXspy7mBlN0LS9OLRwhYHTzNGwx YTSKhy12xooqYkaJncZEduTBKwMJLMwk/HZxD7KRuKPM7xoK64mkyz/03rUsQORj na6Kqw9rcPfJG0jfh3/c =PyUp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[OSSA 2013-001] Boot from volume allows access to random volumes (CVE-2013-0208)
by Thierry Carrez 30 Jan '13

30 Jan '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 OpenStack Security Advisory: 2013-001 CVE: CVE-2013-0208 Date: January 29, 2013 Title: Boot from volume allows access to random volumes Reporter: Phil Day (HP) Products: Nova Affects: Essex, Folsom Description: Phil Day from HP reported a vulnerability in volume attachment in nova-volume, affecting the boot-from-volume feature. By passing a specific volume ID, an authenticated user may be able to boot from a volume he doesn't own, potentially resulting in full access to that 3rd-party volume contents. Folsom setups making use of Cinder are not affected. Folsom fix (included in upcoming Nova 2012.2.3 stable update): http://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/317cc0af385536dee43ef2addad50a91357… Essex fix: http://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/243d516cea9d3caa5a8267b12d2f577dcb2… References: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1069904 http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2013-0208 - -- 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/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJRCCZCAAoJEFB6+JAlsQQjDSYQALrBUhPwUbxFtVrTSGhjDK7A Donl1ykZy1CtsykGiXa5NuREw+xtoKZl/NteLDVRo/C0tWcGe2L2rk5FxMboKdRu 2I0CXXQ65liHySvZqzlZE6M5TfAhGWCJBOpZArbF6PcB/ZP/F/a/2/BU6HbHonSn g58Lq8wKK2JErU5djee9B22wkUTlxiZv2JThOGr/VRoR2F3Zxdmd3UbBC+9Db5tg OQMBHlGLXgSCvUZBkzMZwyfxvovf6fpTlmFU/8Ff9OWA4fMxtpsybIcD9BoaLZAd 2U2/f5qoIbh3soZGF5DH1ucVym0js8NtAf9E+9FVzg2SfHX0sF8Qo1sLowEb/43d n8WdBQBYLzfLjKqDGkvNUjfhDHkzO6ujekUQCdMtADBk1tBI6IdfSzyJkhMWXF5S Rs3Fpkr1gkXq0xuNf9UQPuA1op2TiBxKa5Z8svOfXnHa7m/NOsYHJ3S4hL5e9E6S osJ5LlZDvX+xUGIzRTpViAx0YGwNykRlInhtLJrAoKLWWV/3EA9ap4Bl6XB/ZFsO UbUeCDGpepAianOnx2S6p7JhERkcT7R0DHVWI7b5U5hPemt1B6bfkTzgwpwIstDv XtSwzVvUuNMfDUG2bMSfXmPqdzZBwdh4iKjIJzT5PecFQ5qBOJOvhF5/aCB2UtI2 LaVsd1b7v/7C3ln4j/bB =eX8i -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Jan 18 – 25)
by Stefano Maffulli 26 Jan '13

26 Jan '13

Highlights of the week Project Incubation Process Update is Underway <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/01/project-incubation-process-update-is-…> Alan Clark, Chairman of the Board, wrote about the effort to improve the existing open source incubation process for OpenStack. This is one of the most important processes kickstarted by the OpenStack Foundation whose objective is to help ensure that projects receive the focus, visibility and resources needed to be successful via a fair, equitable and open process. Introducing the User Committee <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/01/introducing-the-user-committee/> Speaking of important processes, here is another one you should pay attention to: the OpenStack User Committee whose role is to represent the needs of the diverse range of OpenStack users. For those of you who would like to help define this committee, please look at the points to review <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yD8TfqUik2dt5xo_jMVHMl7tw9oIJnEndLK8YqE…> document and post your thoughts to the OpenStack foundation mailing list <http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foundation>. Debugging OpenStack with pycharm and pydevd <https://tropicaldevel.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/debugging-openstack-with-pyc…> The story of a conversion, that of John Bresnahan <https://tropicaldevel.wordpress.com/> from being a strictly /vi/ user, developing C code and debugging with gdb, to an avid user of pycharm. This is a story of lost productivity of a once Luddite converted to IDE and of how he got to appreciate remote debugging via pydevd. Technical Committee & Grizzly Update <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/01/technical-committee-grizzly-update/> While we wait for the final release of OpenStack Grizzly, here is a teaser of what’s coming up, with other updates from the OpenStack Technical Committee. Read it together with the Motion on Technical Committee membership for Spring 2013 session <http://markmail.org/message/cozzeh2yph6mayhp>. Let’s Get this Started! <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/01/lets-get-this-started/> And ‘this’ is the Outreach Program for Women, coordinated by GNOME, with OpenStack as one of ten participating organizations: we’ve added a few more ladies to the OpenStack contributors starting line this month. * Laura Alves da Quinta (http://ladquin.dreamwidth.org/) Buenos Aires, Argentina – working on Documentation with Anne Gentle * Anita Kuno (http://anteaya.info/) Haliburton, Ontario, Canada, working on Python Clients with Iccha Sethi * Victoria Martínez de la Cruz (http://vmartinezdelacruz.com/) Bahía Blanca, Argentina working on Horizon’s Workflows with Julie Pichon We are seeking sponsorships to bring all of them to the OpenStack Summit in Portland in April. If you are interested please contact Anne Gentle at anne.gentle(a)rackspace.com <mailto:anne.gentle@rackspace.com>. For a few thousand dollars, we can learn from them as much as they are learning from us. A great opportunity for some great interns! On-disk encryption prototype for OpenStack Swift <http://www.mirantis.com/blog/on-disk-encryption-prototype-for-openstack-swi…> A few months ago, Mirantis engineers described the design of on-disk per-user encryption <http://www.mirantis.com/blog/openstack-swift-encryption-architecture/> of objects in Swift. They released a first working prototype of this feature. It’s still very basic at the moment, but most of its components are pluggable and can be enhanced or replaced with more advanced versions. Code on Github <https://github.com/Mirantis/swift-encrypt>. Tips and tricks * By Sébastien Han <http://sebastien-han.fr/>: OpenStack Nova and availability zones <http://sebastien-han.fr/blog/2013/01/24/openstack-nova-play-with-availabili…> * By Anthony Goddard <http://ops.anthonygoddard.com/>: Demystifying OpenStack Folsom quotas <http://ops.anthonygoddard.com/OpenStack/demystifying-openstack-folsom-quotas> * By Adam Young <http://adam.younglogic.com/>: A SQL upgrade script in Keystone <http://adam.younglogic.com/2013/01/sql-upgrade-keystone/> * By Julien Danjou <http://julien.danjou.info/blog/>: Extending Swift with middleware: example with ClamAV <http://julien.danjou.info/blog/2013/extending-swift-with-a-middleware-clamav> Upcoming Events * OpenStack Mini-Conf at Linux Conf Australia <https://lca2013.linux.org.au/wiki/Miniconfs/OpenStack>Jan 29, 2013 – Canberra, Australia Details <https://lca2013.linux.org.au/wiki/Miniconfs/OpenStack> * Chicago-land Open “Stackers”, Lets Meet! <http://www.meetup.com/meetup-group-NjZdcegA/events/100295502/> Jan 31, 2013 – Chicago, IL Details <http://www.meetup.com/meetup-group-NjZdcegA/events/100295502/> * OpenStack da zero <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-User-Group-Italia/events/99688052/> Jan 31, 2013 – Roma, Italy Details <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-User-Group-Italia/events/99688052/> * FOSDEM’13 <https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/cloud/> Feb 02 – 03, 2013 – Bruxelles, Belgium Cloud track <https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/cloud/> * OpenStack Mini-Conf at gnuNify <http://gnunify.in/2013/event/OpenStack_Mini_Conf> Feb 15, 2013 – Pune, India Details <http://gnunify.in/2013/event/OpenStack_Mini_Conf> * Second Swiss OpenStack User Group Meeting <http://www.meetup.com/zhgeeks/events/97648722/> Feb 19, 2013 – Zurich, Switzerland Details <http://www.meetup.com/zhgeeks/events/97648722/> * SCALE 11x <https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale11x/> Feb 22 – 24, 2013 – Los Angeles, CA Details <https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale11x/> * Pulse 2013 <https://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/pulse/agenda/index.html> Mar 03 – 06, 2013 – Las Vegas, NV Details <https://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/pulse/agenda/index.html> * OpenStack Day Tokyo 2013 <http://openstack.jp/events/osdt2013.html> Mar 12, 2013 – Tokyo, Japan Details <http://openstack.jp/events/osdt2013.html> * OpenStack Developers Meetup <http://www.meetup.com/openstack-atlanta/> Feb 21, 2013 – Atlanta, GA Details <http://www.meetup.com/openstack-atlanta/> * OpenStack Israel <http://www.openstack.org/> May 27, 2013 – Tel-Aviv, Israel Coming Soon <http://www.openstack.org/> Report from previous events * Report: January month OpenStack meetup,Bangalore, India <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/01/report-january-month-openstack-meetup…> Other news * Swift 1.7.6 and python-swiftclient 1.3.0 released <http://markmail.org/message/2sr6hjnrkgbwif2f> * Poll: “H” release cycle naming <http://markmail.org/message/hffwhskaa3zqqszv> * OpenStack Board of Directors Talks: Episode 5 with Yujie Du (Ben), Community Development Director at 99cloud <http://rafstack.tumblr.com/post/41366323988> * OpenStack Fedora news – 2013-01-23 <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OpenStack_status_report_2013-01-23> * Unidata demoed virtual desktops based on OpenStack <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZqhVvJfI40> * Call for testing: 2012.2.3 candidate tarballs <http://markmail.org/message/ykropvuigtykrzes> * Swift team started discussing next generation API <http://wiki.openstack.org/SwiftNextAPI> and ideas for a sprint at PyCon2013 <http://wiki.openstack.org/Sprints/PyCon2013> * OpenStack Project Meeting: Summary <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-01-22-21.…> and full logs <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-01-22-21.…> Welcome new contributors Celebrating the first patches submitted this week by: * Wenhao Xu * gtt116 * Spencer Krum, Portland State University * Mat Grove * Burt Holzman, Fermilab * Chet Burgess, Metacloud /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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[Swift] Swift 1.7.6 and python-swiftclient 1.3.0 released
by John Dickinson 25 Jan '13

25 Jan '13

I'm happy to announce that Swift 1.7.6 has been released. This release is the work of twenty five contributors. As always, you can upgrade to this release with no downtime for your clients. You can find download links at https://launchpad.net/swift and the Launchpad release tracking at https://launchpad.net/swift/+milestone/1.7.6. The full changelog for this release is at https://github.com/openstack/swift/blob/master/CHANGELOG. I'd like to highlight a few of the more prominent changes in this release. We've added a feature to the healthcheck middleware that allows you to cause an error response to be returned based on the existence of a file on disk. This allows you to turn off a proxy server and automatically remove it from your load balancer pool simply by touching a file. Since this is a file that can persist through a reboot, this new feature can also protect you from using a proxy server if an upgrade went awry. This new feature allows you to simplify your operations and more simply control how your cluster behaves. We have added some new options to swift-recon. Using swift-recon, you can now find the top full disks in your cluster and get more detailed information about replication times. Also, Swift's dispersion report tool has some new options to control what output is given. These changes give you more insight into what is happening in your cluster by filtering the results to container and object reports. This release also includes many bug fixes, including some related to object names and one to prevent the auditors from consuming too many unix sockets. I'd encourage everyone to upgrade to take advantage of the new functionality and bug fixes in this release. If you have any questions, ask on the OpenStack mailing list or hop in #openstack on IRC (freenode). I have also tagged python-swiftclient at 1.3.0 for release. Thanks again to all of the people who have contributed to this release. Swift's high quality and success are a direct result of your hard work and dedication. --John

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OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Jan 11 – 18)
by Stefano Maffulli 19 Jan '13

19 Jan '13

Highlights of the week My first week at OpenStack <http://vmartinezdelacruz.com/my-first-week-at-openstack/> Victoria Martínez de la Cruz <http://vmartinezdelacruz.com/> is one of the three interns working on OpenStack under the Outreach Program for Women (OPW –Anne Gentle shared some details about the program before.) She will be working on Tenant Deletion Workflow <https://blueprints.launchpad.net/horizon/+spec/tenant-deletion> in the next months. This first blog post about OpenStack contains lots of good advice for any developer joining the community: a must read, for experienced developers, hiring managers and newcomers to this great community. Ceilometer Grizzly 2 Milestone Available <http://blog.doughellmann.com/2013/01/ceilometer-grizzly-2-milestone-availab…> The Ceilometer team is proud to announce the first synchronous milestone delivery with the OpenStack <http://openstack.org/> project. Grizzly-2 <https://launchpad.net/ceilometer/+milestone/grizzly-2> is also the last Folsom compatible version of Ceilometer <https://launchpad.net/ceilometer> as we are planning to introduce some breaking changes very soon in our trunk to enable a totally new set of features bringing Ceilometer beyond basic metering into monitoring and alerting. How many people does one need to build a multi-region cloud? <http://freedomhui.com/2013/01/stacklabhow-many-people-it-needs-to-build-a-m…> Hui Cheng describes in details the StackLab project. Spearheaded by Sina, Intel, Gamewave, Xi’an Jiaotong University, South China University of Technology and others, it’s a non profit platform to try and test OpenStack. Sina’s OpenStack development team was responsible for the development, operations, and go online initially. More volunteers have joined the effort and are actively being recruited to get involved to this great career, which will accelerate OpenStack popularizing in China. An Image Transfers Service For OpenStack <https://tropicaldevel.wordpress.com/2013/01/11/an-image-transfers-service-f…> John Bresnahan <https://tropicaldevel.wordpress.com/> makes the case for a new transfer service component in OpenStack. IaaS clouds must transfer VM images from the repositories in which they reside to compute nodes where they are booted. In the current state of OpenStack images download via HTTP to a nova-compute client speaking to the Glance image service. In the future proposed by John a transfers service would provide more predictable quality of service with horizontal scalability. Check his idea. Ceilomenter is looking for volunteers to take on unassigned blueprints <http://lists.openstack/> The team is about to start implementing the blueprints for the g3 milestone, there are few blueprints which still don’t have anyone assigned to them. If you are looking for something useful to code, head over to see the list of things that you could be working on. Remember that contributions during the Grizzly lifecycle will get you a free ticket to the OpenStack Summit. Tips and tricks * By Patrick McGarry <http://ceph.com/author/scuttlemonkey/>: Building a Public AMI with Ceph and OpenStack <http://ceph.com/howto/building-a-public-ami-with-ceph-and-openstack/> * By Davide Guerry: Using JuJu on OpenStack-based UniCloud <http://youtu.be/K5-iJ37q23k> * By John Bresnaha <https://tropicaldevel.wordpress.com/>: How to configure OpenStack Glance And Nova Backed By Red Hat Storage <https://tropicaldevel.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/openstack-glance-and-nova-ba…> * By Loïc Dachary <http://dachary.org/>: Installing OpenStack Folsom on Debian GNU/Linux wheezy <http://dachary.org/?p=1791> * By Robert Collins <http://rbtcollins.wordpress.com/>: Multi-machine parallel testing of nova with testrepository <http://rbtcollins.wordpress.com/2013/01/14/multi-machine-parallel-testing-o…> * By Kyle Mestery <http://www.siliconloons.com/>: Multi-node OpenStack Folsom devstack <http://www.siliconloons.com/?p=395> Upcoming Events * OpenStack Users January 2013 meetup <http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/93144352/> Jan 19, 2013 – Bangalore, India Details <http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/93144352/> * Openstack Developers Meetup <http://wiki.openstack.org/DeveloperMeetupRaanana> Jan 20, 2013 – Raanana, Israel Details <http://wiki.openstack.org/DeveloperMeetupRaanana> * Chef for OpenStack Hack Day <http://www.eventbrite.com/event/4395344594> Jan 22, 2013 – Boston, MA Details <http://www.eventbrite.com/event/4395344594> * oVirt Workshop <http://www.ovirt.org/NetApp_Workshop_January_2013> Jan 22 – 24, 2013 – Sunnyvale, CA Details <http://www.ovirt.org/NetApp_Workshop_January_2013> * OpenStack Mini-Conf at Linux Conf Australia <https://lca2013.linux.org.au/wiki/Miniconfs/OpenStack>Jan 29, 2013 – Canberra, Australia Details <https://lca2013.linux.org.au/wiki/Miniconfs/OpenStack> * OpenStack da zero <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-User-Group-Italia/events/99688052/> Jan 31, 2013 – Roma, Italy Details <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-User-Group-Italia/events/99688052/> * FOSDEM’13 <https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/cloud/> Feb 02 – 03, 2013 – Bruxelles, Belgium Cloud track <https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/cloud/> * OpenStack Mini-Conf at gnuNify <http://gnunify.in/2013/event/OpenStack_Mini_Conf> Feb 15, 2013 – Pune, India Details <http://gnunify.in/2013/event/OpenStack_Mini_Conf> * Second Swiss OpenStack User Group Meeting <http://www.meetup.com/zhgeeks/events/97648722/> Feb 19, 2013 – Zurich, Switzerland Details <http://www.meetup.com/zhgeeks/events/97648722/> * OpenStack Developers Meetup <http://www.meetup.com/openstack-atlanta/> Feb 21, 2013 – Atlanta, GA Details <http://www.meetup.com/openstack-atlanta/> * OpenStack Israel <http://www.openstack.org/> May 27, 2013 – Tel-Aviv, Israel Coming Soon <http://www.openstack.org/> Report from previous events * Summary and Review of the 2012 Openstack China Tour <http://freedomhui.com/2013/01/summary-and-review-of-the-2012-openstack-chin…> Other news * A new OpenStack Map: see where the OpenStack User Groups <http://openstack.org/community/> are around the world * OpenStack Project Meeting: Summary <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-01-15-21.…> and full logs <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-01-15-21.…> Welcome new contributors Celebrating the first patches submitted this week by: * Toan Nguyen, Rackspace * Hans Lindgren, KTH * Flavio Percoco, Redhat * Michael J Fork, IBM * Sean Chen * Changbin Liu * Dan Florea, Cisco * Tony NIU * François Rossigneux, INRIA * Eric Peterson, HP * Sunil Thaha, Redhat /The weekly newsletter is a way for the community to learn about all the various activities occurring on a weekly basis. 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OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Jan 4 – 11)
by Stefano Maffulli 12 Jan '13

12 Jan '13

Highlights of the week Save the Date – OpenStack Summit Spring 2013 <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/01/save-the-date-openstack-summit-spring…> *It’s official – the Spring 2013 OpenStack Summit <https://www.openstack.org/summit/portland-2013/> will be held in Portland, April 15-18, at the Oregon Convention Center. * If you’d like to submit a presentation, panel or workshop, the *call for speakers <http://www.openstack.org/summit/portland-2013/call-for-speakers>is now open* and will close February 15. OpenStack at FOSDEM ’13 <http://fnords.wordpress.com/2013/01/11/openstack-at-fosdem-13/> In 3 weeks, free and open source software developers will converge to Brussels for 2+ days of talks, discussions and beer. FOSDEM <https://fosdem.org/2013/> is still the largest gathering for our community in Europe, and it will be a pleasure to meet again with longtime friends. Note that FOSDEM attendance is free as in beer, and requires no registration. OpenStack will be present with a number of talks in the Cloud devroom <https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/cloud/> in the /Chavanne/ auditorium on Sunday, February 3^rd . OpenStack at linux.conf.au 2013 <http://www.stillhq.com/openstack/000011.html> On the other side of the world, OpenStack is a protagonist at linux.conf.au 2013 <http://lca2013.linux.org.au/> in Australia. Michael Still, Director of LinuxConf Australia, highlights in his blog post the not-to-be-missed talks about OpenStack and the closely-related ones. Spoiler alert: I counted 28 (twentyeight) talks, from Monday to Friday! OpenStack Board of Directors Talks: Episode 4 with Jim Curry, GM Private Cloud at Rackspace <http://rafstack.tumblr.com/post/40186173585> Jim Curry talks about OpenStack accomplishments, areas worth focusing on for improving, the importance of the ecosystem and more. As OpenStack Elections near, these interviews of current members of OpenStack Foundation’s Board by Rafael Knuth are nice to read. Http <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/foundation/2013-January/001301.html>OpenStack Foundation 2012 End-of-Year UpdateJanuary/001301.html <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/foundation/2013-January/001301.html> Alan Clark, Board Chair, and Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director, sent a summary of 2012 accomplishments and the budget for 2012-2013. Introducing the Hyper-V Quantum plugin <http://markmail.org/message/6jmhkinft5znkdsz> Lots of good progress to bring OpenStack to Hyper-V and Windows. After the Nova Hyper-V driver, Cinder Windows Storage driver and Cloud-Init for Windows guests Cloudbase Solutions just released a Quantum plugin for Hyper-V 2008 R2 and 2012. Tips and tricks * By Zmanda <http://www.zmanda.com/blogs>: Backward Compatible Keystone-based OpenStack Swift <http://www.zmanda.com/blogs/?p=1002> * By Sébastien Han <http://sebastien-han.fr/>: Some tips for smooth maintenance in OpenStack <http://sebastien-han.fr/blog/2013/01/09/openstack-maintenance-mode/> Upcoming Events * OpenStack Users January 2013 meetup <http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/93144352/> Jan 19, 2013 – Bangalore, India Details <http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/93144352/> * Openstack Developers Meetup <http://wiki.openstack.org/DeveloperMeetupRaanana> Jan 20, 2013 – Raanana, Israel Details <http://wiki.openstack.org/DeveloperMeetupRaanana> * Chef for OpenStack Hack Day <http://www.eventbrite.com/event/4395344594> Jan 22, 2013 – Boston, MA Details <http://www.eventbrite.com/event/4395344594> * oVirt Workshop <http://www.ovirt.org/NetApp_Workshop_January_2013> Jan 22 – 24, 2013 – Sunnyvale, CA Details <http://www.ovirt.org/NetApp_Workshop_January_2013> * OpenStack Mini-Conf at Linux Conf Australia <https://lca2013.linux.org.au/wiki/Miniconfs/OpenStack>Jan 29, 2013 – Canberra, Australia Details <https://lca2013.linux.org.au/wiki/Miniconfs/OpenStack> * FOSDEM’13 <https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/cloud/> Feb 02 – 03, 2013 – Bruxelles, Belgium Cloud track <https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/cloud/> * OpenStack Mini-Conf at gnuNify <http://gnunify.in/2013/event/OpenStack_Mini_Conf> Feb 15, 2013 – Pune, India Details <http://gnunify.in/2013/event/OpenStack_Mini_Conf> * Second Swiss OpenStack User Group Meeting <http://www.meetup.com/zhgeeks/events/97648722/> Feb 19, 2013 – Zurich, Switzerland Details <http://www.meetup.com/zhgeeks/events/97648722/> * OpenStack Israel <http://www.openstack.org/> May 27, 2013 – Tel-Aviv, Israel Coming Soon <http://www.openstack.org/> Report from previous events * Vietnam OpenStack Community 2nd Meeting <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/01/vietnam-openstack-community-2nd-meeti…> Other news * *Grizzly-2* development milestone available (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Horizon, Quantum, Cinder) <http://markmail.org/message/ihmassje6qj3ekly> * Four Weeks, Four Webinars: Dive Deeply into Cloud Storage with Ceph and OpenStack <http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/b/techcenter/archive/2013/01/09/fou…> * OpenStack Ruby (and RoR) bindings implemented on top of ActiveResource <https://github.com/Unidata-SpA/openstack_activeresource> * Discussion about Developing with Scala/Java on OpenStack Swift <http://markmail.org/message/sdt7n7wkvjzki6ue> * New regular meeting for Swift <http://markmail.org/message/fg2qbes5ch4jrn5u> * OpenStack Project Meeting: Summary <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-01-08-21.…> and full logs <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-01-08-21.…> * OpenStack Technical Committee report: Distro & Python 2.6/3.x support policy and Update on the “Future of Incubation / core” joint committee**Summary <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/tc/2013/tc.2013-01-08-20.02.html> and full logs <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/tc/2013/tc.2013-01-08-20.02.log.html> Welcome new contributors Celebrating the first patches submitted this week by: * Yuyue Hill * Kurt Taylor, IBM * Flaper Fesp /The weekly newsletter is a way for the community to learn about all the various activities occurring on a weekly basis. 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Grizzly-2 development milestone available (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Horizon, Quantum, Cinder)
by Thierry Carrez 11 Jan '13

11 Jan '13

Hi everyone, The second milestone of the Grizzly development cycle, "grizzly-2" is now available. It's a significant step toward the final delivery of OpenStack 2013.1 (codenamed "Grizzly"), scheduled for April 4, 2013. You can find the full list of new features and fixed bugs, as well as tarball downloads, at: https://launchpad.net/keystone/grizzly/grizzly-2 https://launchpad.net/glance/grizzly/grizzly-2 https://launchpad.net/nova/grizzly/grizzly-2 https://launchpad.net/horizon/grizzly/grizzly-2 https://launchpad.net/quantum/grizzly/grizzly-2 https://launchpad.net/cinder/grizzly/grizzly-2 Features may be added until the next milestone, grizzly-3, which will be delivered on February 21st. Let's all make it awesome ! Regards, -- Thierry Carrez (ttx) Release Manager, OpenStack

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OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Dec 28 – Jan 4)
by Stefano Maffulli 05 Jan '13

05 Jan '13

Highlights of the week Save the Date – OpenStack Summit Spring 2013 <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/01/save-the-date-openstack-summit-spring…> *It’s official – the Spring 2013 OpenStack Summit <https://www.openstack.org/summit/portland-2013/> will be held in Portland, April 15-18, at the Oregon Convention Center. * We’re expecting 2000 OpenStack users, prospective users, ecosystem members and developers to attend the Spring Summit. As usual, we’ll have a variety of content and tracks, ranging from compelling user stories and technical deep dives to the business case for OpenStack and hands-on workshops. If you’d like to submit a presentation, panel or workshop, the *call for speakers <http://www.openstack.org/summit/portland-2013/call-for-speakers>is now open* and will close February 15. The call for sponsorships will open January 14*. *Event registration and discount hotel rates will be available the week of January 14, so stay tuned and check back for updates <https://www.openstack.org/summit/>. OpenStack Board of Directors Talks: Episode 3 with Randy Bias, Co-Founder & CTO at Cloudscaling <http://rafstack.tumblr.com/post/39582996936> Rafael Knuth chats with Randy Bias about Cloudscaling, OpenStack, cloud technology, API compatibility, enterprise adoption of cloud technologies, Dell and more. Tips and tricks * By Hui Cheng <http://freedomhui.com/>: How To Build A Small Hadoop Cluser In Openstack Using Hadoop1.0 Image <http://freedomhui.com/2012/12/how-to-build-a-small-hadoop-cluser-in-opensta…> * By Thierry Carrez: development environment for Ubuntu-based release of OpenStack <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2013-January/004205.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/> * OpenStack Denver Meetup <http://blog.scottlowe.org/2013/01/03/inaugural-openstack-denver-meetup/> Jan 09, 2013 – Denver, CO Details <http://blog.scottlowe.org/2013/01/03/inaugural-openstack-denver-meetup/> * OpenStack Users January 2013 meetup <http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/93144352/> Jan 19, 2013 – Bangalore, India Details <http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/93144352/> * Openstack Developers Meetup <http://wiki.openstack.org/DeveloperMeetupRaanana> Jan 20, 2013 – Jerusalem, Israel Details <http://wiki.openstack.org/DeveloperMeetupRaanana> * FOSDEM’13 <https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/cloud/> Feb 02 – 03, 2013 – Bruxelles, Belgium Cloud track <https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/cloud/> * Second Swiss OpenStack User Group Meeting <http://www.meetup.com/zhgeeks/events/97648722/> Feb 19, 2013 – Zurich, Switzerland Details <http://www.meetup.com/zhgeeks/events/97648722/> Other news * Details about OpenStack at linux.conf.au 2013 <http://www.stillhq.com/openstack/000011.html> * Grizzly-2 just around the corner <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2013-January/004206.html> * OpenStack Project Meeting didn’t happen this week Welcome new contributors Celebrating the first patches submitted this week by: * Janis Gengeris /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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