Open Stack

    Highlights of the week


      OpenStack Foundation Board -- 2012 Election Candidates
      <http://www.openstack.org/community/openstack-foundation-board-2012-election-candidates/>

See the current list of nominees for the OpenStack Foundation 2012 Board
Member Elections who have received at least one nomination. A candidate
must receive at least 10 nominations to appear on the ballot. Any active
member of the OpenStack Foundation can support a nominee or nominate a
new candidate
http://www.openstack.org/community/openstack-foundation-board-2012-election-candidates/.
A candidate must receive at least 10 nominations to appear on the ballot
and must be a member of the Foundation.

*The final day to nominate a candidate is Monday August 6, 2012.*


      Rostyslav Slipetskyy's Thesis on OpenStack security
      <http://secstack.org/2012/08/the-rostyslav-slipetskyy-thesis/>

This is a pretty awesome bit of work done by a researcher in Denmark. I
enjoyed reading it and I highly recommend it as day 1 reading for
Infosec professionals and researchers getting into OpenStack. Slides
<http://www.slideshare.net/oldbam/security-issues-in-openstack> and you
can download the full thesis (PDF)
<http://nordsecmob.aalto.fi/en/programme/publications/nordsecmob_thesis_2011/thesis_slipetskyy.pdf>.


      API Stability Statement
      <http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Approved/APIStability>

It is critical to the success of OpenStack
<http://wiki.openstack.org/OpenStack> that operators be willing to
upgrade to new OpenStack <http://wiki.openstack.org/OpenStack> releases.
All OpenStack <http://wiki.openstack.org/OpenStack> APIs use a
versioning scheme that is completely independent from the named releases
(Essex, Folsom, etc.). One obstacle to upgrading to a new OpenStack
<http://wiki.openstack.org/OpenStack> release is if there are
incompatible API changes that could cause user applications to stop
working. Operators want great new features and APIs to be the only
aspect of the upgrade process visible to their users. Old API versions
should continue to work. More on
http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Approved/APIStability


      OpenStack PPB defined "Supporting Project"

There is a new category of OpenStack projects in addition to Core,
Incubated, Library and Gating projects: "Supporting projects". The
initial list of projects in this category is available on the wiki, with
more details:
http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Accepted/SupportingProjectDefinition.


      OpenStack Security Primer
      <http://secstack.org/2012/08/openstack-security-primer/>

Matt Joyce introduction to security and OpenStack. He's maintaining the
blog http://secstack.org <http://secstack.org/>, now available also on
http://planet.openstack.org <http://planet.openstack.org/>.


      Tips and tricks

  * By Sébastien Han <http://sebastien-han.fr/>: Auto assign floating IP
    <http://sebastien-han.fr/blog/2012/08/03/openstack-auto-assign-floating-ip/>
  * By Mirantis <http://www.mirantis.com/>: OpenStack Networking
    Tutorial: Single-host FlatDHCPManager
    <http://www.mirantis.com/blog/openstack-networking-single-host-flatdhcpmanager/>
  * By Mark McLoughlin <http://blogs.gnome.org/markmc>: Nova DB Poking
    <http://blogs.gnome.org/markmc/2012/07/31/nova-db-poking/>
  * By Alessandro Tagiapietra <http://www.alexnetwork.it/>: Build an HA
    Openstack cloud
    <http://www.alexnetwork.it/2012/07/31/tutorials/build-an-ha-openstack-cloud-glance-setup-part-5.html>
    (multiple parts)


    Upcoming Events

  * South Bay OpenStack Hackathon
    <http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/57643102/> Aug 09, 2012 --
    Sunnyvale, CA Details <http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/57643102/>
  * 2012 OpenStack APEC Conference
    <http://openstack.csdn.net/index.html> Aug 10 -- 11, 2012 --
    Bejing+Shanghai, China Details
    <http://openstack.csdn.net/index.html> Openstack User Group Meetup (
    Delhi NCR )
    <http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/75533162/>
    Aug 12, 2012 -- Dehli Details
    <http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/75533162/>
  * Hobart Meetup -- adjacent to PyCon2012, An OpenStack code dojo!
    <http://aosug.openstack.org.au/events/72708142/> Aug 17, 2012 --
    Hobart, Australia Details
    <http://aosug.openstack.org.au/events/72708142/>
  * Australian OpenStack User Group -- Adelaide Meetup with SAGE-AU
    <http://aosug.openstack.org.au/events/66911242/> Aug 28, 2012 --
    Adelaide Details <http://aosug.openstack.org.au/events/66911242/>
  * OpenStack Summit <http://openstack.org/> Oct 15 -- 18, 2012 -- San
    Diego, CA


    Other news

  * Security update: CVE-2012-3426 : Keystone does not properly
    implement token expiration
    <http://secstack.org/2012/08/cve-2012-3426-keystone-does-not-properly-implement-token-expiration/>
  * OpenStack Project Meeting 2012-07-31: Summary
    <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2012/openstack-meeting.2012-07-31-21.02.html>
    Meeting log
    <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2012/openstack-meeting.2012-07-31-21.02.log.html>
  * OpenStack PPB Meeting 2012-07-31: Summary
    <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2012/openstack-meeting.2012-07-31-20.06.html>
    and Meeting log
    <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2012/openstack-meeting.2012-07-31-20.06.log.html>

      o Voted on Agreement on proposed API Stability Statement
        http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Approved/APIStability
      o Voted on Creating a "supporting" project official category
        http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Accepted/SupportingProjectDefinition


    Stats from traffic on docs.openstack.org

Statistics taken from the traffic on docs.openstack.org, from January
1st 2012 to July 31st.

<http://www.openstack.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/H1-2012-country-visits1.png>


Country/Territory visits to docs.openstack.org from Jan 1 2012 to July
31 2012

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