Highlights of the week
OpenStack Grizzly http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/04/openstack-grizzly/
Done: OpenStack’s 7th release, called “Grizzly”, is out: thank you, the over 500 stackers who contributed and the many more who participated in the OpenStack Summit last October where this release was planned. This release, more than any before it, was driven by users who have been running OpenStack in production for the past year (or more) and have asked for broader support for the compute, storage, and networking technologies they trust and even greater scale and ease of operations. Mark Collier’s http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/04/openstack-grizzly/ post has a summary of the new features and a screencast of the updated OpenStack Dashboard.
Building a Multi-Tier Application With OpenStack http://blog.aaronorosen.com/building-a-multi-tier-application-with-openstack/
In his blog post Aaron Rosen http://blog.aaronorosen.com/ shows how to build a simple multi-tier application on OpenStack, something that is made possible by the new features of OpenStack Grizzly: security groups and about Load-balancer-as-a-Service (LBaaS).
Autoscale and Orchestration: the Heat of OpenStack http://technicae.cogitat.io/2013/04/autoscale-and-orchestration-heat-of.html
Duncan McGreggor tells the story of how OpenStack orchestration service (codename Heat) is gaining new autoscaling features thanks to increased efforts by Rackspace. Following discussions at Pycon, Rackspace’s management decided to add two development teams to Heat and add some of the features that initially they were developing internally. Another good story of different companies collaborating inside the OpenStack Community.
There will be no reliable cloud (part 1) http://blog.hendrikvolkmer.de/2013/04/03/there-will-be-no-reliable-cloud-part-1/
It’s the eternal debate about cloud and high availability, legacy enterprise applications and chaos monkeys. Hendrik Volkmer http://blog.hendrikvolkmer.de/ shares his thoughts, summarised in “Stop wasting your time trying to find one”. His suggestion: With all that free time, start to build reliable systems on top of unreliable clouds.
Grizzly, the day after http://fnords.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/grizzly-the-day-after/
Thierry’s, our fine release manager, wrote his therapeutic post-release essay, balancing the excitement of the new release and the sadness of all the things that could have done better. Put on relaxing music, sit back on the chair and listen like any therapist would do.
Tips and Tricks
* By SwiftStack Team http://swiftstack.com/: Using CORS with Swift http://swiftstack.com/blog/2013/04/02/using-cors-with-swift/ * By Michael Still http://www.stillhq.com/: Merged in Havana: configurable iptables drop actions in nova http://www.stillhq.com/openstack/havana/000001.html
Upcoming Events
* 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/ * Beers / Summit Debrief / Internally Promoting OpenStack http://www.meetup.com/meetup-group-NjZdcegA/events/108730682/ Apr 24, 2013 – Chicago, IL Details http://www.meetup.com/meetup-group-NjZdcegA/events/108730682/ * 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/ * Building an OpenStack Cloud http://www.meetup.com/meetup-group-NjZdcegA/events/108731562/ May 30, 2013 – Chicago, IL Details http://www.meetup.com/meetup-group-NjZdcegA/events/108731562/ * 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
* Vietnam OpenStack Meetup 3 http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/04/vietnam-openstack-meetup-3/ * DreamHost’s collection of presentations from PyCon 2013 http://dreamhost.com/dreamscape/2013/04/02/on-stage-at-pycon-2013/ * 3rd Swiss OpenStack User Group Meetup http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/04/3rd-swiss-openstack-user-group-meetup/ * Interview with Cloudscaling’s Eric Windisch on the Simplicity Scales engineering blog http://rafstack.tumblr.com/post/47179669042
Other News
* Hear what’s new in OpenStack technology at OpenStack Israel May 27 http://cloudifysource.tumblr.com/post/47011535593 * Announcing the Python3 Compatibility Team http://engineering.cloudscaling.com/2013/04/announcing-python3-compat-team/ * Announcing: OpenStack Security Mailing List http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2013-April/007135.html * New Reviewday location http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2013-April/007116.html: http://status.openstack.org/reviews/ * OpenStack Project Meeting: Summary http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-04-02-21.02.html and full logs http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-04-02-21.02.log.html
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