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-available.html

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-multi-regions-cloud/

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-for-openstack/

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-backed-by-red-hat-storage/ * 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-of-nova-with-testrepository/ * 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/OpenStackJan 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-china-tour/

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.2013-01-15-21.01.html and full logs http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-01-15-21.01.log.html

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

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