Highlights of the week
Participate in the first OpenStack User Survey! http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/03/participate-in-the-first-openstack-user-survey/
If you are an OpenStack user or have customers with OpenStack deployments, please take 10 minutes to respond to our first User Survey or pass it along to your network. Our community has grown at an amazing rate in 2.5 years, and it's time to better define our user base and requirements, so we can respond and advocate accordingly. TAKE THE SURVEY http://awe.sm/r0NkC
A new agent management approach for Quantum in OpenStack Grizzly http://www.mirantis.com/blog/a-new-agent-management-approach-in-quantum-for-openstack-grizzly/
In Folsom, Quantum didn't have facilities to schedule its agents between cluster nodes, but the Grizzly release brings the support of a new component management approach, which addresses this issue.
Havana Project Technical Leads
Welcome to the new PTLs for OpenStack's future release, Havana:
* Nova: Russell Bryant * Ceilometer: Julien Danjou * Keystone: Dolph Matthews * Cinder: John Griffith * Glance: Mark Washenberger * Heat: Steven Dake * Horizon: Gabriel Hurley * Oslo: Mark McLoughlin * Quantum: Marck McClain * Swift: John Dickenson
They were elected democratically by their peer developers according to the rules of the OpenStack community to lead the next release cycle. Congratulations. The new PTLs will join three more people whose election is still ongoing, to form the OpenStack Technical Committee.
*Moving to open development: OpenStack / Crowbar / Chef on SUSE* http://jaegerandi.blogspot.com/2013/03/moving-to-open-development-openstack.html
Crowbar was originally developed by Dell engineers, and is now a fully-fledged Open Source project involving close collaboration with SUSE and others. There are weekly public meetings https://github.com/crowbar/crowbar/wiki/Meetings, a public mailing list https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/crowbar, a |#crowbar| IRC channel https://github.com/crowbar/crowbar/wiki/IRC-channel, public Trello boards https://github.com/crowbar/crowbar/wiki/Development and so on. As an indication of the project's independent nature, the authoritative location for the git repositories has changed from https://github.com/dellcloudedge to https://github.com/crowbar, and a new homepage http://crowbar.github.com/is currently under construction.
OpenStack Miniconf at PyCon Australia 2013 http://aptira.wufoo.com/forms/pyconau2013-openstack-miniconf-call-for-presenters/
PyCon Australia 2013 will be hosting two one-day miniconfs on *Friday 5 July* before the main conference proceedings kick off on Saturday 6 July. Miniconfs are events that focus on a specific community that relies heavily on Python, and allows practitioners in those communities to explore those topics in a much deeper way than the main PyCon conference can allow.
The Call For Presenters for the OpenStack Miniconf is open now and closes on 15 April, 2013. To submit a presentation, visit the OpenStack Miniconf CFP site at http://aptira.wufoo.com/forms/pyconau2013-openstack-miniconf-call-for-presen...
Tips and Tricks
* By Anita Kuno http://anteaya.info/: Reviewing an OpenStack Patch http://anteaya.info/blog/2013/03/21/reviewing-an-openstack-patch/ * By Adam Young http://adam.younglogic.com/: Trusts and Role Based Access Control for Open Stack http://adam.younglogic.com/2013/03/trusts-rbac/ * By Mate Lakat http://blogs.citrix.com/: Virtual Hypervisor: how to deploy XenServer inside a XenServer http://blogs.citrix.com/2013/03/18/virtual-hypervisor/ * By Sébastien Han http://sebastien-han.fr/: Grizzly availability zones http://sebastien-han.fr/blog/2013/03/18/grizzly-availability-zones/ * By Yun Mao http://cloudystuffhappens.blogspot.com/search/label/openstack: /How to use the ZooKeeper driver for ServiceGroup in OpenStack Nova http://cloudystuffhappens.blogspot.com/2013/03/zookeeper-and-openstack-nova.html/ * By Kashyap Chamarthy http://kashyapc.wordpress.com/: OpenStack --- nova image-create, under the hood http://kashyapc.wordpress.com/2013/03/11/openstack-nova-image-create-under-the-hood/
Security Advisories
* OSSA 2013-007] Backend credentials leak in Glance v1 API (CVE-2013-1840) http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-March/000085.html * OSSA 2013-008] Nova DoS by allocating all Fixed IPs (CVE-2013-1838) http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-March/000086.html * [OSSA 2013-009] Keystone PKI tokens online validation bypasses revocation check (CVE-2013-1865) http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-March/000087.html
Upcoming Events
* OpenStack Hungary Meeting http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-Hungary-Meetup-Group/events/109973362/ Mar 25, 2013 -- Budapest, Hungary Details http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-Hungary-Meetup-Group/events/109973362/ * Vietnam OpenStack Meeting https://www.facebook.com/events/467317409990701/ Mar 30, 2013 -- Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Details https://www.facebook.com/events/467317409990701/ * 1st OpenStack User Group Nordics meetup http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-User-Group-Nordics/events/95258382/ Apr 03, 2013 -- Kista, Sweden Details http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-User-Group-Nordics/events/95258382/ * OpenStack Summit April 2013 http://www.openstack.org/summit/portland-2013/ Apr 15 -- 18, 2013 -- Portland, OR Details http://www.openstack.org/summit/portland-2013/ * OpenStack meeting in Cologne http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-DACH/events/108876542/ May 04, 2013 -- Cologne, Germany Details http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-DACH/events/108876542/ * OpenStack DACH Day http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/3/prweb10526716.htm May 24, 2013 -- Berlin Fairgrounds Details http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/3/prweb10526716.htm * OpenStack Israel http://www.meetup.com/IGTCloud/events/99146542/ May 27, 2013 -- Tel-Aviv, Israel Details http://www.meetup.com/IGTCloud/events/99146542/ * OpenStack CEE Day http://www.openstack.org/ May 29, 2013 -- Budapest Details http://www.openstack.org/ * OpenStack meeting in Munich http://www.meetup.com/openstack-de/events/109700562/ Jun 11, 2013 -- Munich, Germany Details http://www.meetup.com/openstack-de/events/109700562/ * GigaOM Structure http://event.gigaom.com/structure/ Jun 19 -- 20, 2013 -- San Francisco, CA Details http://event.gigaom.com/structure/ * OSCON 2013 http://www.oscon.com/oscon2013 Jul 22 -- 26, 2013 -- Portland, OR Details http://www.oscon.com/oscon2013
Reports from past events
* Event Report: OpenStack workshop Bangalore, India http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/03/event-report-openstack-workshop-bangalore-india/ * OpenStack and Friends at SCALE 11x http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/03/openstack-and-friends-at-scale-11x/
Other News
* Amanda Enterprise 3.3 brings advanced backup management features http://www.zmanda.com/blogs/?p=1053 * Report from the Chairman of the Board, Alan Clark: A Pretty Good Place to Be http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/03/a-pretty-good-place-to-be/ * openSUSE 12.3 is out, with OpenStack love http://www.vuntz.net/journal/post/2013/03/13/openSUSE-12.3-is-out%2C-with-OpenStack-love * Chef 11: Interview with Lucas Welch, Director of Communications at Opscode http://rafstack.tumblr.com/post/45181547441 * OpenStack Project Meeting: Summary http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-03-19-21.02.html and full logs http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-03-19-21.02.log.html
Welcome New Contributors
Celebrating the first patches submitted this week by:
* Christopher Yeoh, IBM * Scott Devoid, ANL * Greg Ball, Rackspace * Andy Hill * Roman Podolyaka, Mirantis * afazekas, Redhat * Senhua Huang, Cisco * Ilya Kharin, Mirantis * Ryan O'Hara, Redhat * Michael Kerrin, HP * Allan Feid
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