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On 7/30/15, 11:28 AM, "Jesse Cook" <jesse.cook at RACKSPACE.COM> wrote:

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>On 7/30/15, 11:20 AM, "Jesse Cook" <jesse.cook at RACKSPACE.COM> wrote:
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>>I recently discovered there was a product working group for OpenStack and
>>joined the mailing list today. I've been trying to find a single source
>>of truth for the expected behavior of OpenStack Powered Clouds. I've seen
>>various things from def core and individual projects, but nothing so far
>>that clearly illustrates the overarching expected behavior. I was
>>wondering if this was a good opportunity and the right place to discuss
>>this.
>>
>>I believe that the OpenStack community and the customers of OpenStack
>>Powered Clouds could really benefit from defining the expected behaviors
>>(both permission to play and key value differentiators). One effective
>>way to do this is through a business / development process known as
>>Behavior Driven Development (BDD) [0]. I was wondering if we could use
>>something like this to document and test the expected performance of an
>>OpenStack Cloud using the 1000 node clusters. A quick example of a
>>feature [1] might look like this:
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>>Feature: Elasticity
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>>    In order to briefly leverage the power of the Cloud to do some work,
>>    As an OpenStack Powered Cloud customer
>>    I want to quickly provision a large number of servers, perform some
>>    work, and then destroy them.
>>
>>    Scenario Outline: Build Bursts
>>        Given <cells> cell(s)
>>        And each cell has <hosts> hosts
>>        And each host has <memory> free memory
>>        When I request <requests> VMs
>>        And each VM will have <size> of RAM
>>        Then every VM will be ready in <time>
>>
>>        Examples: Performance Criteria
>>            | cells | hosts | memory | requests | size | time |
>>            |     1 |  1000 |   100G |     1000 |   2G | 600s |
>>            |    10 |   100 |   100G |     1000 |   2G | 600s |
>>            ...
>>    ...
>>
>>[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavior-driven_development
>>[1] http://pythonhosted.org/behave/tutorial.html#feature-files
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>>Thanks,
>>
>>Jesse J. Cook
>>Compute Team Lead
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>>On 7/23/15, 12:01 PM, "Egle Sigler"
>><egle.sigler at rackspace.com<mailto:egle.sigler at rackspace.com>> wrote:
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>>Hello OpenStack Community,
>>
>>I am very excited to let you know that today Rackspace and Intel
>>announced our plans to form the "OpenStack Innovation Center," which is
>>an exciting community-oriented initiative focused on accelerating the
>>enterprise features and adoption of OpenStack.  This initiative includes:
>>
>>
>>·      Largest OpenStack Developer Cloud - We are building and making
>>available to the community two 1,000 node clusters to support advanced,
>>large-scale and testing of OpenStack.  The clusters should be available
>>to the community within six months and you can sign up
>>here<http://goo.gl/forms/vCkfNBmXm4> to receive updates on this effort.
>>
>>·      OpenStack Developer Training - We are creating a new training
>>curriculum designed to onboard and significantly increase the number of
>>developers working upstream in the community.
>>
>>·      Joint OpenStack Engineering - Rackspace and Intel developers will
>>work together in collaboration with the Enterprise Work Group and
>>community to eliminate bugs and develop new enterprise features.  Both
>>companies will recruit new developers to help further OpenStack
>>development.
>>
>>·      OpenStack Innovation Center - The center will be comprised of
>>Rackspace and Intel developers who will work upstream, using existing
>>community tools and processes to improve the scalability, manageability
>>and usability of OpenStack.
>>
>>To find out more, please check out the following resources:
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>>Rackspace press 
>>release<http://www.rackspace.com/blog/newsarticles/rackspace-collaborates
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>>with-intel-to-accelerate-openstack-enterprise-feature-development-and-ado
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>>tion/>
>>Rackspace 
>>blog<http://www.rackspace.com/blog/rackspace-and-intel-form-the-openstack
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>>innovation-center>
>>Intel 
>>release<http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2015/07/2
>>3
>>/intel-announces-cloud-for-all-initiative-to-deliver-benefits-of-the-clou
>>d
>>-to-more-businesses>
>>Intel 
>>blog<https://communities.intel.com/community/itpeernetwork/datastack/blog
>>/
>>2015/07/23/cloud-for-all>
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>>We look forward to working with you to continue advancing the leading
>>open source cloud platform and welcome your feedback!
>>
>>Best regards,
>>
>>Egle Sigler
>>Rackspace Principal Architect
>>OpenStack Foundation Board Member
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