Open Stack

On Tue, 2015-10-13 at 08:47 -0700, Joshua Harlow wrote:
> Well great!
> 
> When is that going to be accessible :-P
> 
> Dulko, Michal wrote:
> > On Mon, 2015-10-12 at 10:58 -0700, Joshua Harlow wrote:
> >> Just a related thought/question. It really seems we (as a community)
> >> need some kind of scale testing ground. Internally at yahoo we were/are
> >> going to use a 200 hypervisor cluster for some of this and then expand
> >> that into 200 * X by using nested virtualization and/or fake drivers and
> >> such. But this is a 'lab' that not everyone can have, and therefore
> >> isn't suited toward community work IMHO. Has there been any thought on
> >> such a 'lab' that is directly in the community, perhaps trystack.org can
> >> be this? (users get free VMs, but then we can tell them this area is a
> >> lab, so don't expect things to always work, free isn't free after all...)
> >>
> >> With such a lab, there could be these kinds of experiments, graphs,
> >> tweaks and such...
> >
> > https://www.mirantis.com/blog/intel-rackspace-want-cloud/
> >
> > "The plan is to build out an OpenStack developer cloud that consists of
> > two 1,000 node clusters available for use by anyone in the OpenStack
> > community for scaling, performance, and code testing. Rackspace plans to
> > have the cloud available within the next six months."
> >
> > Stuff you've described is actually being worked on for a few months. :)

Judging from 6-month ETA and the fact that the work started in August it
seems that the answer is - beginning of 2016.