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On 7/30/15, 11:20 AM, "Jesse Cook" <jesse.cook at RACKSPACE.COM> wrote:

>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:
>
>Feature: Elasticity
>
>    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
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jesse J. Cook
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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:
>
>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:
>
>Rackspace press 
>release<http://www.rackspace.com/blog/newsarticles/rackspace-collaborates-
>with-intel-to-accelerate-openstack-enterprise-feature-development-and-adop
>tion/>
>Rackspace 
>blog<http://www.rackspace.com/blog/rackspace-and-intel-form-the-openstack-
>innovation-center>
>Intel 
>release<http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2015/07/23
>/intel-announces-cloud-for-all-initiative-to-deliver-benefits-of-the-cloud
>-to-more-businesses>
>Intel 
>blog<https://communities.intel.com/community/itpeernetwork/datastack/blog/
>2015/07/23/cloud-for-all>
>
>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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