Introducing Murano: Bringing Windows Environments to OpenStack http://www.mirantis.com/blog/introducing-murano-bringing-windows-environment-to-openstack/

In response to growing demand for deploying and running Windows based applications on OpenStack cloud, the team at Mirantis started Murano https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Murano: a native OpenStack component that enables fast provisioning and operation of Windows Environments on demand.

Who Wrote OpenStack Grizzly Docs? http://justwriteclick.com/2013/04/26/who-wrote-openstack-grizzly-docs/

Sneaking a peek at the numbers for documentation along with the code should show us pointers about docs keeping up with code. Anne Gentle http://justwriteclick.com/ dives into the documentation with data and insights.

“I” release cycle naming https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Release_Naming#.22I.22_release_cycle_naming

The next OpenStack summit will happen in Hong Kong. That creates a pretty challenging naming problem, since there is no word starting with “i’ in classic transliteration of Chinese words. So the Technical Committee is willing to bend the rules /a little/ to extend the range of candidates… Feel free to add suggestions to the list on the wiki.

Stacker Voices: Monty Taylor, HP http://engineering.cloudscaling.com/stacker-voices-monty-taylor-hp/

Cloudscaling Engineering http://engineering.cloudscaling.com/ talked with Monty Taylor of HP (reaching rockstar status also with a wired.com http://www.wired.com/ profile http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/04/new-hackers-taylor/ this week) at the OpenStack Summit in Portland. Monty leads the CI (continuous innovation) project for OpenStack. In that role, he and his group have built testing systems that have made it possible for the OpenStack project to scale from a few dozen contributors for the Bexar release to more than 700 developers now pushing hundreds of patches daily to OpenStack. Watch the video on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqw4zxqPelc.

A little tracing hack http://markmail.org/message/kjv4kry67732nawb

Timothy Daly at Yahoo! added metrics and tracing for OpenStack and released tomograph https://github.com/timjr/tomograph: a tool to see what and how OpenStack is doing behind the curtains.

Contribute to OpenStack Activity Board http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/05/contribute-to-openstack-activity-board/

We’ve released the complete documentation http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/WIKIDS/Home for OpenStack Insights http://activity.openstack.org/data/, with binaries and source code downloadable from Sourceforge https://sourceforge.net/projects/wikidsopenstack while the OpenStack Dash http://activity.openstack.org/dash/ tools are the vanilla MetricsGrimoire http://metricsgrimoire.github.io/ set hosted on github https://github.com/MetricsGrimoire. The code is free as in freedom so you’re welcome to play with it.

How to run pylint with few false positives http://cloudystuffhappens.blogspot.com/2013/04/how-to-run-pylint-with-few-false.html

Testing your python code can get complex and with pylint, you /will /see false positives, meaning it will complain some lines as bugs that are actually correct. lintstack is designed to address this problem: *reduce false positives from pylint as much as possible without sacrificing accuracy*. Yun Mao http://cloudystuffhappens.blogspot.com/search/label/openstack describes how lintstack works.

Report from Previous Events

* By Alessio Ababilov http://aababilov.wordpress.com/: OpenStack Summit April 2013: a First Experience http://aababilov.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/openstack-summit-april-2013-a-first-experience/ * By Amar Kapadia http://www.buildcloudstorage.com/: Coming of Age of Swift http://blogs.evault.com/cloud-connected-recovery/cloud-connected-storage/openstack-swift-comes-of-age-with-the-grizzly-release/.

Tips and Tricks

* By Adam Young http://adam.younglogic.com/: Kerberizing PostgreSQL with FreeIPA for Keystone http://adam.younglogic.com/2013/05/kerberizing-postgresql-with-freeipa-for-keystone/ * By Giulio Fidente http://giuliofidente.com/: OpenStack Cinder – Add more volume nodes http://giuliofidente.com/2013/04/openstack-cinder-add-more-volume-nodes.html * By Flavio Percoco http://blog.flaper87.org/: Dynamic TTL Collection in Mongodb for Marconi http://blog.flaper87.org/post/517c3ea50f06d3497faffe5a/

OpenStack In The Wild

A new section of the weekly newsletter dedicated to users of OpenStack. If you want to showcase how OpenStack helps you (or you know somebody that uses OpenStack) please let us know: email mailto:communitymngr@openstack.org, twitter http://twitter.com/openstack, reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/openstack/ or avian carrier http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers will do). Meanwhile watch the keynotes from Portland Summit:

* Bloomberg User Spotlight http://www.openstack.org/summit/portland-2013/session-videos/presentation/keynote-bloomberg-user-spotlight * Keynote: Comcast User Spotlight http://www.openstack.org/summit/portland-2013/session-videos/presentation/keynote-comcast-user-spotlight * Keynote: Best Buy User Spotlight http://www.openstack.org/summit/portland-2013/session-videos/presentation/keynote-best-buy-user-spotlight * Keynote: Clouds in High Energy Physics http://www.openstack.org/summit/portland-2013/session-videos/presentation/keynote-clouds-in-high-energy-physics * Keynote: OpenStack at the National Security Agency (NSA) http://www.openstack.org/summit/portland-2013/session-videos/presentation/keynote-openstack-at-the-national-security-agency-nsa

Upcoming Events

* 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 Atlanta Meetup http://www.meetup.com/openstack-atlanta/events/107062982/ May 16, 2013 – Atlanta, USA Details http://www.meetup.com/openstack-atlanta/events/107062982/ * OpenStack Dublin Meetup http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-Ireland/events/116567022/ May 22, 2013 – Dublin, Ireland Details http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-Ireland/events/116567022/ * 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 India Meetup http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/117132352/ May 26, 2013 – Bangalore, India at Anuta Network Details http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/117132352/ * OpenStack Israel http://www.meetup.com/IGTCloud/events/99146542/ May 27, 2013 – Tel-Aviv, Israel Details http://www.openstack-israel.org/ * 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

Other News

* A brief introduction to Keystone and PKI Tokens http://www.enovance.com/fr/blog/5641/keystone-pki-tokens * Glance wants to go public http://blog.flaper87.org/post/517da0e10f06d35562ce7376/: the future of OpenStack Image Service * OpenStack Common Vulnerability Database http://secstack.org/2013/04/openstack-common-vulnerability-database/ * OpenStack Project Meeting: Summary http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-04-30-21.02.html and full logs http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-04-30-21.02.log.html

o /HELP/: please participate to the thread that Gabriel started on API version discovery http://markmail.org/message/xn7cyjskq2wznqhj

Welcome New Developers

* Shawn Hartsock, VMwware * David Martin, redbrick health

Got answers?

Ask OpenStack https://ask.openstack.org/ is the go-to destination for OpenStack users. Interesting questions waiting for answers:

* openstack tries to use cache=none when using glusterfs, when it should be writethrough https://ask.openstack.org/question/758/openstack-tries-to-use-cachenone-when-using-glusterfs-when-it-should-be-writethrough/ * Ceilometer BinApiTestCase fails with 503 error connecting to localhost https://ask.openstack.org/question/669/ceilometer-binapitestcase-fails-with-503-error-connecting-to-localhost/ * Why do I get “Could not find token” error using Swift with s3 API? https://ask.openstack.org/question/661/why-do-i-get-could-not-find-token-error-using-swift-with-s3-api/ * What p2v (physical to Virtual) capabilities does OpenStack have? https://ask.openstack.org/question/651/what-p2v-physical-to-virtual-capabilities-does-openstack-have/ * Why isn’t OpenStack Swift sending metrics to Statsd server? https://ask.openstack.org/question/755/why-isnt-openstack-swift-sending-metrics-to-statsd-server/ * “Package ‘openstack-keystone’ isn’t signed with proper key” installing OpenStack on CentOS 6.4 https://ask.openstack.org/question/747/package-openstack-keystone-isnt-signed-with-proper-key-installing-openstack-on-centos-64/

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