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      December 2014 OpenStack Infrastructure User Manual Sprint
      <http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=9952>

During this week the Infrastructure team released a significant
milestone for the Infrastructure User Manual. The manual consolidates
documentation for Developers, Core Reviewers and Project Drivers, which
was spread across wiki pages, project-specific documentation files and
general institutional knowledge. The manual is starting to look great
and a lot of wiki pages have been declared obsolete meanwhile.


      Third-party CI account creation is now self-serve
      <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/third-party-announce/2014-December/000130.html>

This means that new third-party account will need to follow a new,
leaner process
<http://ci.openstack.org/third_party.html#creating-a-service-account>.
There are some changes for existing accounts. Read the full announcement
<http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/third-party-announce/2014-December/000130.html>.


      My Key Learning from Paris <http://www.mattfischer.com/blog/?p=610>

Matt Fischer <http://www.mattfischer.com/blog> “learned a bunch of
things in Paris: French food is amazing
<http://www.yelp.com/biz/le-volant-basque-paris>, always upgrade OVS”
and “All operators have the same problems.” The result of his and
others' realization is the beginnings of an Operations Project
<https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Operations>.


    Relevant Conversations

  * Nova Specs for Kilo <http://www.stillhq.com/openstack/kilo/000006.html>
  * Three Flavours of Infrastructure Cloud
    <http://www.zerobanana.com/archive/2014/12/04#three-flavours-of-cloud>
  * Studying Midcycle Sprints and Meetings
    <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2014/12/studying-midcycle-sprints-and-meetings/>
  * Proposal for Neutron core and vendor code decomposition
    <https://review.openstack.org/134680>
  * change to Oslo release process to support stable branch requirement
    caps
    <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2014-December/051872.html>


    Deadlines and Development Priorities

  * Neutron Spec Proposal Deadline (SPD)
    <https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/NeutronKiloProjectPlan>: Monday
    12-8-2014
  * Neutron Spec Approval Deadline (SAD)
    <https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/NeutronKiloProjectPlan>: Monday
    12-15-2014
  * [nova] Kilo Project Priorities
    <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2014-December/052225.html>
  * Neutron Priorities for Kilo
    <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2014-December/052230.html>


    Stable Release

  * OpenStack 2014.2.1 released
    <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2014-December/000306.html>


    Tips ‘n Tricks

  * By Craige McWhirter <http://mcwhirter.com.au//tags/OpenStack/>:
    Managing KVM Console Logs for Nova
    <http://mcwhirter.com.au//craige/blog/2014/Managing_KVM_Console_Logs_for_Nova/>
  * By Arx Cruz <http://blog.arxcruz.net/welcome-to-postach-io>:
    OpenStack 3rd Party CI - Part I
    <http://blog.arxcruz.net/openstack-3rd-party-ci-part-i> and Part II
    – Puppetboard
    <http://blog.arxcruz.net/openstack-3rd-party-ci-part-ii-puppetboard>
    andPart III - Configuring your puppet recipes
    <http://blog.arxcruz.net/openstack-3rd-party-ci-part-iii-configuring-your-puppet-recipes>
    and Deleting OpenStack Instances directly from database
    <http://blog.arxcruz.net/deleting-openstack-instances-directly-from-database>
    and Ubuntu cloud image password
    <http://blog.arxcruz.net/ubuntu-cloud-image-password> and One
    controller to rule them all
    <http://blog.arxcruz.net/one-controller-to-rule-them-all>
  * By Oleg Gelbukh
    <https://www.mirantis.com/blog/pumphouse-deep-dive-part-1-2/>:
    Pumphouse Deep Dive, Part 1
    <https://www.mirantis.com/blog/pumphouse-deep-dive-part-1-2/>
  * By Maish Saidel-Keesing
    <http://technodrone.blogspot.com/search/label/OpenStack>: Landing
    your first OpenStack Contribution
    <http://technodrone.blogspot.com/2014/12/landing-your-first-openstack.html>


    Reports from Previous Events

  * BootstrappingHour: Authentication Flows in OpenStack
    <https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/BootstrappingHour/Authentication_Flows>


    Upcoming Events

  * Dec 09 - 11, 2014 <http://bitex.bh/> Bitex 2014 <http://bitex.bh/>
    Bahrain, BH <http://bitex.bh/>
  * Dec 09, 2014
    <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-France/events/218918493/> PaaS with
    OpenStack <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-France/events/218918493/>
    Paris, FR <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-France/events/218918493/>
  * Dec 09, 2014 Stockholm OpenStack Meetup Stockholm, Sweden
    <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-User-Group-Nordics/events/218754241/>
  * Dec 09 - 11, 2014 <http://bitex.bh/> Bitex 2014 <http://bitex.bh/>
    Bahrain, BH <http://bitex.bh/>
  * Dec 10, 2014 <http://go.cumulusnetworks.com/opencontrail-openstack>
    Accelerating SDN Applications
    <http://go.cumulusnetworks.com/opencontrail-openstack> Mountain
    View, CA, US <http://go.cumulusnetworks.com/opencontrail-openstack>
  * Dec 10, 2014 <http://www.opensourcecloudday.be/> Open Source Cloud
    Day <http://www.opensourcecloudday.be/> Mechelen, Antwerp, BE
    <http://www.opensourcecloudday.be/>
  * Dec 11 - 12, 2014
    <http://www.e-side.co.jp/okinawaopendays/2014/en.html> Okinawa Open
    Days 2014 <http://www.e-side.co.jp/okinawaopendays/2014/en.html>
    Naha, Okinawa, JP <http://www.e-side.co.jp/okinawaopendays/2014/en.html>
  * Dec 17, 2014 <http://fit.edu.pk/tutorials> Building Cloud with
    OpenStack <http://fit.edu.pk/tutorials> Islamabad, PK
    <http://fit.edu.pk/tutorials>
  * Dec 18, 2014 <http://meetu.ps/2DTr9p> Is OpenStack ready for
    Enterprises? <http://meetu.ps/2DTr9p> New York, New York, US
    <http://meetu.ps/2DTr9p>
  * Jan 15, 2015 <http://ow.ly/EKWpY> Deep Dive into Trove
    <http://ow.ly/EKWpY> Austin, Texas, US <http://ow.ly/EKWpY>
  * Feb 19 - 20, 2015 <http://www.tech-ies.com/> World Techies Forum
    <http://www.tech-ies.com/> Mumbai, Maharashtra, IN
    <http://www.tech-ies.com/>
  * Apr 13 - 14, 2015 <http://www.percona.com/live/openstack-live-2015/>
    OpenStack Live <http://www.percona.com/live/openstack-live-2015/>
    Santa Clara, CA, US <http://www.percona.com/live/openstack-live-2015/>
  * May 18 - 22, 2015 <https://www.openstack.org/summit/vancouver-2015/>
    OpenStack Summit May 2015
    <https://www.openstack.org/summit/vancouver-2015/> Vancouver, BC
    <https://www.openstack.org/summit/vancouver-2015/>
  * Sep 17, 2015 <http://www.openstackbeneluxconference.nl/> OpenStack
    Benelux Conference 2015 <http://www.openstackbeneluxconference.nl/>
    Bussum, NL <http://www.openstackbeneluxconference.nl/>


    Other News

  * What's Up, Doc? Nov 19, 2014
    <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2014-November/051113.html>
  * PKI Tokens Don't Give Better Security
    <http://www.jamielennox.net/blog/2014/12/01/pki-tokens-dont-give-better-security/>
  * Who are the OpenStack Ambassadors?
    <http://opensource.com/business/14/12/who-are-openstack-ambassadors>
  * MySQL and OpenStack deep dive: Dec. 10 webinar
    <http://www.percona.com/blog/2014/12/04/mysql-and-openstack-deep-dive-dec-10-webinar-free/>
  * OpenStack Project Meeting: Summary
    <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2014/project.2014-11-25-21.01.html>
    and full logs
    <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2014/project.2014-11-25-21.01.log.html>.


    Got Answers?

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

  * How to make the fips used for dvr l3 routing on the compute nodes be
    persistent on boot?
    <https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/55213/how-to-make-the-fips-used-for-dvr-l3-routing-on-the-compute-nodes-be-persistent-on-boot/>
  * How to restrict incoming http requests to VM using load balancer?
    <https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/55298/how-to-restrict-incoming-http-requests-to-vm-using-load-balancer/>
  * Setup IceHouse with ZeroMQ
    <https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/55273/setup-icehouse-with-zeromq/>


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