Register Now For The Summit in Hong Kong http://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-summit-hong-kong-2013Register
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Ambassador Program -- Specifics http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/08/ambassador-program-specifics/
Following from the previous post http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/08/ambassador-program/, we've had a range of people express their support for the program and quite a number already looking for the application form! So, some more details about the Ambassador Program. Ambassadors will be recognised on the OpenStack website for their efforts, and provided with support from foundation staff to conduct their duties. They will also get access to a funding program -- allowing them to request funds for activities of impact in their region. We'd also expect ambassadors to attend the summits, and the Foundation would likely assist if it wasn't possible for them to be there using their own methods.
How Heat Orchestrates your OpenStack Resources http://www.zerobanana.com/archive/2013/08/29#heat-dependencies
One of the great things about orchestration http://www.zerobanana.com/archive/2013/07/30#openstack-orchestration-introduction is that it automatically figures out the operations it needs to perform. So whenever you deploy (or modify) your infrastructure you need not write a script to do so; you simply describe the infrastructure you want and the orchestration engine does the rest. Zane Bitter http://www.zerobanana.com/tags/OpenStack describes how this works in Heat https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Heat.
Autoscaling with Heat and Ceilometer http://techs.enovance.com/5991/autoscaling-with-heat-and-ceilometer
Like AWS CloudFormation, Heat allows to create auto scaling stacks. In order to do this, some metrics need to be retrieved from your VM and some actions need to be triggered when a specified event occurs on these metrics. These actions are usually upscaling (create some new VMs) or downscaling (destroy some Vms). Starting with the Havana version (currently trunk), Ceilometer can now trigger actions when something happens to these metrics by creating alarms. The Heat agent inside the VM is no more needed.
Taking OpenStack Core discussions to community http://robhirschfeld.com/2013/08/27/taking-openstack-core-discussions-to-community/
We've been building up to a broad discussion about the OpenStack Core http://robhirschfeld.com/2013/07/22/kicking-off-core/ and I'd like to invite everyone in the OpenStack community to participate (review latest http://robhirschfeld.com/2013/08/13/openstack-core-positions/). Alan Clark (Board Chairman) officially kicked off this open discussion with his post on the OpenStack blog http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/08/addressing-the-topic-of-core-through-spider/ last week. And we're trying to have face-to-face events for dialog like the Core meetup tonight in San Francisco http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/134495312/. Look for more to come! Of course, this will also be a topic at the summit https://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/08/voting-is-open-help-choose-who-will-speak-at-the-next-summit/. The Board needs to move this forward in the November meeting, so NOW is the time to review and give us input.
The OpenStack T-Shirt Design Contest Winner is... http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/08/the-openstack-t-shirt-design-contest-winner-is/
Raul Chan's design. Check it out on OpenStack's blog.
OpenStack in Production
OpenStack Swift & many small files http://engineering.spilgames.com/openstack-swift-lots-small-files/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=openstack-swift-lots-small-files
Spil Games has been running Swift for more than two years now, hosting over 400 million files with an average file size of about 50 KB per object. They have a replica count of three so there are*1.2 billion* files to be stored on the object servers. Generally speaking, Swift has turned out to be a solid object storage system. They however run into some performance issues and in a blog post they describe how they analyzed and solved them.
Tips 'n Tricks
* By eNovance Engineering Teams http://techs.enovance.com/: Manage Jenkins Jobs with YAML http://techs.enovance.com/6006/manage-jenkins-jobs-with-yaml * By Sébastien Han http://sebastien-han.fr/: Want to save money in the Cloud? OpenStack CoreOS image is there http://sebastien-han.fr/blog/2013/08/30/want-to-save-money-in-the-cloud-coreos-image-is-there/ * By The Official Rackspace Blog http://www.rackspace.com/blog: A .NET Developer's Guide To The World Of Open Source http://www.rackspace.com/blog/a-net-developers-guide-to-the-world-of-open-source/ * By HTTP GET-outta here! https://tropicaldevel.wordpress.com/2013/08/26/http-get-outta-here/ Setup Nova to get images from local disks instead of HTTP * By Lorin Hochstein http://lorinhochstein.wordpress.com/: Automated DevStack install inside of VirtualBox with Vagrant http://lorinhochstein.wordpress.com/2013/08/17/automated-devstack-install-inside-of-virtualbox-with-vagrant/
Upcoming Events
* 2nd Openstack Athens User Group meeting http://www.meetup.com/Athens-OpenStack-User-Group/events/131129272/ Sep 06, 2013 - Athens, Greece Details http://www.meetup.com/Athens-OpenStack-User-Group/events/131129272/ * 2nd OpenStack User Group Nordics meetup http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-User-Group-Nordics/Sep 11, 2013 -- Kista, Stockholm Details http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-User-Group-Nordics/ * OpenStack In Action -- Powering IaaS Cloud http://barcampbangalore.org/bcb/bcb14/openstack-in-action-powering-iaas-cloudSep 14, 2013 -- SAP Labs Whitefield, Bangalore Details http://barcampbangalore.org/bcb/bcb14/openstack-in-action-powering-iaas-cloud * Cloud Connect China http://www.cloudconnectevent.cn/, September 15-17 2013, Shanghai, China * LinuxCon/Cloud Open North America http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/cloudopen-north-america, September 16-18 2013, New Orleans, LA, USA, * GigaOM Structure UK http://event.gigaom.com/structure, September 18-19 2013, London, England, UK * OpenStack India Day http://openstackindia.wordpress.com/2013/08/14/openstack-india-day-2013-announced/ Sep 21, 2013 -- Bangalore Details http://openstackindia.wordpress.com/2013/08/14/openstack-india-day-2013-announced/ * Hosting & Cloud Transformation Summit http://na.hostingtransformation.com/Sep 23 -- 25, 2013 -- Las Vegas, USA Details http://na.hostingtransformation.com/ * OpenStack on Ales http://openstack.onales.com/ Sep 30 -- Oct 01, 2013 -- Bend, OR Details http://openstack.onales.com/ * Open World Forum (Paris) http://www.openworldforum.com/,October 3-5 2013, Paris, France * Gartner Symposium/IT Expo North America http://www.gartner.com/technology/symposium/orlando/, October 6-10 2013, Orlando, FL, USA, * OpenStack in action! -- The Canadian Chapter https://openstackinactioncanada.eventbrite.com/ Oct 08, 2013 -- Montreal, Canada Details https://openstackinactioncanada.eventbrite.com/ * Swift Hackathon http://swifthackathon.eventbrite.com/ Oct 15 -- 17, 2013 -- Aust, TX Details http://swifthackathon.eventbrite.com/ * LinuxCon/Cloud Open Europe http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/cloudopen-europe, October 21-23 2013, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK * Cloud Connect http://www.cloudconnectevent.com/chicago, October 21-24 2013, Chicago, IL, USA * USENIX LISA https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa13, November 3-8 2013, Washington DC, USA * OW2 Annual Conference http://www.ow2.org/view/OW2con-2013/, November 13-14 2013, Paris, France * INTEROP http://www.interop.in/ Nov 20 -- 22, 2013 -- Mumbai, India Details http://www.interop.in/ * Gartner Data Center Conference http://www.gartner.com/technology/summits/na/data-center/, December 9-12 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA
Reports from Previous Events
* Slides from OpenStack in production http://sebastien-han.fr/blog/2013/08/15/openstack-in-production-slides/ * OpenStack in Debian http://www.enovance.com/fr/blog/5900/openstack-in-debian * Wrap Up: Google+ Hangout with Puppet Labs http://rafstack.tumblr.com/post/58158674229
Other News
* Open Mic Spotlight: Julie Pichon http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/08/open-mic-spotlight-julie-pichon/ * The Fanatical Faces of Rackspace Private Cloud: Anne Gentle http://www.rackspace.com/blog/the-fanatical-faces-of-rackspace-private-cloud-anne-gentle/ * Brian Aker Talks to Linux.com https://blog.hpcloud.com/brian-aker-talks-linuxcom * Hadoop on OpenStack: Elastic Data Processing (EDP) with Savanna 0.3 http://www.mirantis.com/blog/savannah-0-3-edp-analytics-as-a-service/ * OpenStack Community Meeting: Summary http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack_community/2013/openstack_community.2013-08-28-23.03.html and full logs http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack_community/2013/openstack_community.2013-08-28-23.03.log.html * OpenStack Project Meeting: Summary http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-08-27-21.01.html and full logs http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-08-27-21.01.log.html
Security Advisories
* Resource limit circumvention in Nova private flavors (CVE-2013-4278) http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-August/000138.html
Got answers?
Ask OpenStack https://ask.openstack.org/ is the go-to destination for OpenStack users. Interesting questions waiting for answers:
* Is there a way of passing the language header to openstack REST API calls so that the message returned by openstack is localized? https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/4346/is-there-a-way-of-passing-the-language-header-to-openstack-rest-api-calls-so-that-the-message-returned-by-openstack-is-localized/ * No symmetric pinging connectivity between VMs and routers/DHCP servers https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/4673/no-symmetric-pinging-connectivity-between-vms-and-routersdhcp-servers/ * How to integrate anti virus / anti malware for vm's? https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/4654/how-to-integrate-anti-virus-anti-malware-for-vms/ * Nova security group not working properly https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/4613/nova-security-group-not-working-properly/ * How to upgrade from grizzly to havana? https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/4576/how-to-upgrade-from-grizzly-to-havana/ * How to create a baremetal virtual machine provisioned by openstack grizzly? https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/4568/how-to-create-a-baremetal-virtual-machine-provisioned-by-openstack-grizzly/ * How to setup image metadata with python API 0.11.0? https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/4502/how-to-setup-image-metadata-with-python-api-0110/
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