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Please note that the RDO test days have currently been re-scheduled to
(at least) next week, February 15th and 16th.

We are currently working our way through different issues and hope
they'll be sorted out in time by then.

David Moreau Simard
Senior Software Engineer | OpenStack RDO

dmsimard = [irc, github, twitter]


On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 10:31 AM, David Moreau Simard
<dmsimard at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> We've started planning the deployment with the Kolla team, you can see
> the etherpad from the "operator" perspective here:
> https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/kolla-rdo-m3
>
> We'll advertise the test days and how users can participate soon.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> David Moreau Simard
> Senior Software Engineer | OpenStack RDO
>
> dmsimard = [irc, github, twitter]
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 8:29 AM, David Moreau Simard
> <dmsimard at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Hi !
>>
>> For those who might be unfamiliar with the RDO [1] community project:
>> we hang out in #rdo, we don't bite and we build vanilla OpenStack
>> packages.
>>
>> These packages are what allows you to leverage one of the deployment
>> projects such as TripleO, PackStack or Kolla to deploy on CentOS or
>> RHEL.
>> The RDO community collaborates with these deployment projects by
>> providing trunk and stable packages in order to let them develop and
>> test against the latest and the greatest of OpenStack.
>>
>> RDO test days typically happen around a week after an upstream
>> milestone has been reached [2].
>> The purpose is to get everyone together in #rdo: developers, users,
>> operators, maintainers -- and test not just RDO but OpenStack itself
>> as installed by the different deployment projects.
>>
>> We tried something new at our last test day [3] and it worked out great.
>> Instead of encouraging participants to install their own cloud for
>> testing things, we supplied a cloud of our own... a bit like a limited
>> duration TryStack [4].
>> This lets users without the operational knowledge, time or hardware to
>> install an OpenStack environment to see what's coming in the upcoming
>> release of OpenStack and get the feedback loop going ahead of the
>> release.
>>
>> We used Packstack for the last deployment and invited Packstack cores
>> to deploy, operate and troubleshoot the installation for the duration
>> of the test days.
>> The idea is to rotate between the different deployment projects to
>> give every interested project a chance to participate.
>>
>> Last week, we reached out to Kolla to see if they would be interested
>> in participating in our next RDO test days [5] around February 8th.
>> We supply the bare metal hardware and their core contributors get to
>> deploy and operate a cloud with real users and developers poking
>> around.
>> All around, this is a great opportunity to get feedback for RDO, Kolla
>> and OpenStack.
>>
>> We'll be advertising the event a bit more as the test days draw closer
>> but until then, I thought it was worthwhile to share some context for
>> this new thing we're doing.
>>
>> Let me know if you have any questions !
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> [1]: https://www.rdoproject.org/
>> [2]: https://www.rdoproject.org/testday/
>> [3]: https://dmsimard.com/2017/11/29/come-try-a-real-openstack-queens-deployment/
>> [4]: http://trystack.org/
>> [5]: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/kolla/2018/kolla.2018-01-24-16.00.log.html
>>
>> David Moreau Simard
>> Senior Software Engineer | OpenStack RDO
>>
>> dmsimard = [irc, github, twitter]