[Openstack] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Apr 25 – May 3)

Stefano Maffulli stefano at openstack.org
Fri May 3 23:51:54 UTC 2013


      Introducing Murano: Bringing Windows Environments to OpenStack
      <http://www.mirantis.com/blog/introducing-murano-bringing-windows-environment-to-openstack/>

In response to growing demand for deploying and running Windows based 
applications on OpenStack cloud, the team at Mirantis started Murano 
<https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Murano>: a native OpenStack component 
that enables fast provisioning and operation of Windows Environments on 
demand.


      Who Wrote OpenStack Grizzly Docs?
      <http://justwriteclick.com/2013/04/26/who-wrote-openstack-grizzly-docs/>

Sneaking a peek at the numbers for documentation along with the code 
should show us pointers about docs keeping up with code. Anne Gentle 
<http://justwriteclick.com/> dives into the documentation with data and 
insights.


      “I” release cycle naming
      <https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Release_Naming#.22I.22_release_cycle_naming>

The next OpenStack summit will happen in Hong Kong. That creates a 
pretty challenging naming problem, since there is no word starting with 
“i’ in classic transliteration of Chinese words. So the Technical 
Committee is willing to bend the rules /a little/ to extend the range of 
candidates… Feel free to add suggestions to the list on the wiki.


      Stacker Voices: Monty Taylor, HP
      <http://engineering.cloudscaling.com/stacker-voices-monty-taylor-hp/>

Cloudscaling Engineering <http://engineering.cloudscaling.com/> talked 
with Monty Taylor of HP (reaching rockstar status also with a wired.com 
<http://www.wired.com/> profile 
<http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/04/new-hackers-taylor/> this 
week) at the OpenStack Summit in Portland. Monty leads the CI 
(continuous innovation) project for OpenStack. In that role, he and his 
group have built testing systems that have made it possible for the 
OpenStack project to scale from a few dozen contributors for the Bexar 
release to more than 700 developers now pushing hundreds of patches 
daily to OpenStack. Watch the video on YouTube 
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqw4zxqPelc>.


      A little tracing hack <http://markmail.org/message/kjv4kry67732nawb>

Timothy Daly at Yahoo! added metrics and tracing for OpenStack and 
released tomograph <https://github.com/timjr/tomograph>: a tool to see 
what and how OpenStack is doing behind the curtains.


      Contribute to OpenStack Activity Board
      <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/05/contribute-to-openstack-activity-board/>

We’ve released the complete documentation 
<http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/WIKIDS/Home> for OpenStack 
Insights <http://activity.openstack.org/data/>, with binaries and source 
code downloadable from Sourceforge 
<https://sourceforge.net/projects/wikidsopenstack> while the OpenStack 
Dash <http://activity.openstack.org/dash/> tools are the vanilla 
MetricsGrimoire <http://metricsgrimoire.github.io/> set hosted on github 
<https://github.com/MetricsGrimoire>. The code is free as in freedom so 
you’re welcome to play with it.


      How to run pylint with few false positives
      <http://cloudystuffhappens.blogspot.com/2013/04/how-to-run-pylint-with-few-false.html>

Testing your python code can get complex and with pylint, you /will /see 
false positives, meaning it will complain some lines as bugs that are 
actually correct. lintstack is designed to address this problem: *reduce 
false positives from pylint as much as possible without sacrificing 
accuracy*. Yun Mao 
<http://cloudystuffhappens.blogspot.com/search/label/openstack> 
describes how lintstack works.


    Report from Previous Events

  * By Alessio Ababilov <http://aababilov.wordpress.com/>: OpenStack
    Summit April 2013: a First Experience
    <http://aababilov.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/openstack-summit-april-2013-a-first-experience/>
  * By Amar Kapadia <http://www.buildcloudstorage.com/>: Coming of Age
    of Swift
    <http://blogs.evault.com/cloud-connected-recovery/cloud-connected-storage/openstack-swift-comes-of-age-with-the-grizzly-release/>.


    Tips and Tricks

  * By Adam Young <http://adam.younglogic.com/>: Kerberizing PostgreSQL
    with FreeIPA for Keystone
    <http://adam.younglogic.com/2013/05/kerberizing-postgresql-with-freeipa-for-keystone/>
  * By Giulio Fidente <http://giuliofidente.com/>: OpenStack Cinder –
    Add more volume nodes
    <http://giuliofidente.com/2013/04/openstack-cinder-add-more-volume-nodes.html>
  * By Flavio Percoco <http://blog.flaper87.org/>: Dynamic TTL
    Collection in Mongodb for Marconi
    <http://blog.flaper87.org/post/517c3ea50f06d3497faffe5a/>


    OpenStack In The Wild

A new section of the weekly newsletter dedicated to users of OpenStack. 
If you want to showcase how OpenStack helps you (or you know somebody 
that uses OpenStack) please let us know: email 
<mailto:communitymngr at openstack.org>, twitter 
<http://twitter.com/openstack>, reddit 
<http://www.reddit.com/r/openstack/> or avian carrier 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers> will do). 
Meanwhile watch the keynotes from Portland Summit:

  * Bloomberg User Spotlight
    <http://www.openstack.org/summit/portland-2013/session-videos/presentation/keynote-bloomberg-user-spotlight>
  * Keynote: Comcast User Spotlight
    <http://www.openstack.org/summit/portland-2013/session-videos/presentation/keynote-comcast-user-spotlight>
  * Keynote: Best Buy User Spotlight
    <http://www.openstack.org/summit/portland-2013/session-videos/presentation/keynote-best-buy-user-spotlight>
  * Keynote: Clouds in High Energy Physics
    <http://www.openstack.org/summit/portland-2013/session-videos/presentation/keynote-clouds-in-high-energy-physics>
  * Keynote: OpenStack at the National Security Agency (NSA)
    <http://www.openstack.org/summit/portland-2013/session-videos/presentation/keynote-openstack-at-the-national-security-agency-nsa>


    Upcoming Events

  * OpenStack meeting in Cologne
    <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-DACH/events/108876542/> May 04,
    2013 – Cologne, Germany Details
    <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-DACH/events/108876542/>
  * OpenStack Atlanta Meetup
    <http://www.meetup.com/openstack-atlanta/events/107062982/> May 16,
    2013 – Atlanta, USA Details
    <http://www.meetup.com/openstack-atlanta/events/107062982/>
  * OpenStack Dublin Meetup
    <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-Ireland/events/116567022/> May 22,
    2013 – Dublin, Ireland Details
    <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-Ireland/events/116567022/>
  * OpenStack DACH Day
    <http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/3/prweb10526716.htm> May 24,
    2013 – Berlin Fairgrounds Details
    <http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/3/prweb10526716.htm>
  * OpenStack India Meetup
    <http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/117132352/> May
    26, 2013 – Bangalore, India at Anuta Network Details
    <http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/117132352/>
  * OpenStack Israel <http://www.meetup.com/IGTCloud/events/99146542/>
    May 27, 2013 – Tel-Aviv, Israel Details
    <http://www.openstack-israel.org/>
  * OpenStack CEE Day <http://www.openstack.org/> May 29, 2013 –
    Budapest Details <http://www.openstack.org/>
  * Building an OpenStack Cloud
    <http://www.meetup.com/meetup-group-NjZdcegA/events/108731562/> May
    30, 2013 – Chicago, IL Details
    <http://www.meetup.com/meetup-group-NjZdcegA/events/108731562/>
  * OpenStack meeting in Munich
    <http://www.meetup.com/openstack-de/events/109700562/> Jun 11, 2013
    – Munich, Germany Details
    <http://www.meetup.com/openstack-de/events/109700562/>
  * GigaOM Structure <http://event.gigaom.com/structure/> Jun 19 – 20,
    2013 – San Francisco, CA Details <http://event.gigaom.com/structure/>
  * OSCON 2013 <http://www.oscon.com/oscon2013> Jul 22 – 26, 2013 –
    Portland, OR Details <http://www.oscon.com/oscon2013>


    Other News

  * A brief introduction to Keystone and PKI Tokens
    <http://www.enovance.com/fr/blog/5641/keystone-pki-tokens>
  * Glance wants to go public
    <http://blog.flaper87.org/post/517da0e10f06d35562ce7376/>: the
    future of OpenStack Image Service
  * OpenStack Common Vulnerability Database
    <http://secstack.org/2013/04/openstack-common-vulnerability-database/>
  * OpenStack Project Meeting: Summary
    <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-04-30-21.02.html>
    and full logs
    <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-04-30-21.02.log.html>

      o /HELP/: please participate to the thread that Gabriel started on
        API version discovery <http://markmail.org/message/xn7cyjskq2wznqhj>


    Welcome New Developers

  * Shawn Hartsock, VMwware
  * David Martin, redbrick health


    Got answers?

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

  * openstack tries to use cache=none when using glusterfs, when it
    should be writethrough
    <https://ask.openstack.org/question/758/openstack-tries-to-use-cachenone-when-using-glusterfs-when-it-should-be-writethrough/>
  * Ceilometer BinApiTestCase fails with 503 error connecting to
    localhost
    <https://ask.openstack.org/question/669/ceilometer-binapitestcase-fails-with-503-error-connecting-to-localhost/>
  * Why do I get “Could not find token” error using Swift with s3 API?
    <https://ask.openstack.org/question/661/why-do-i-get-could-not-find-token-error-using-swift-with-s3-api/>
  * What p2v (physical to Virtual) capabilities does OpenStack have?
    <https://ask.openstack.org/question/651/what-p2v-physical-to-virtual-capabilities-does-openstack-have/>
  * Why isn’t OpenStack Swift sending metrics to Statsd server?
    <https://ask.openstack.org/question/755/why-isnt-openstack-swift-sending-metrics-to-statsd-server/>
  * “Package ‘openstack-keystone’ isn’t signed with proper key”
    installing OpenStack on CentOS 6.4
    <https://ask.openstack.org/question/747/package-openstack-keystone-isnt-signed-with-proper-key-installing-openstack-on-centos-64/>

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