OpenStack status

Wed Apr 4 20:25:20 UTC 2012

Hi,

It's been 2 weeks since the last status update, so here's the latest:

  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OpenStack_status_report_2012-04-04

Historical archives are here:

  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OpenStack_status_reports

Cheers,
Pádraig.

(appended below for convenience)

OpenStack status report 2012-04-04

= Fedora OpenStack Projects =

First of all, a handy link worth bookmarking is from the preview "Fedora Packages" service,
which gives a handy way to drill down to details and status of all the [https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/s/openstack Fedora OpenStack projects]

= OpenStack Folsom Design Summit and Conference =

== Fedora Booth ==

The [[OpenStackSummitConf April2012|OpenStack Folsom Design Summit and Conference]] is taking place April 16-20 and Fedora will have a booth at the conference. We are preparing some [[Cloud_Marketing_Collateral/OpenStack_in_Fedora| Fedora marketing collateral]] for the event.

== Design Summit ==

The schedule for the Folsom Design Summit is being prepared at [http://summit.openstack.org summit.openstack.org] and the following proposals have been submitted by Fedora contributors:

* [http://summit.openstack.org/sessions/view/46 Dependency management design]
* [http://summit.openstack.org/sessions/view/56 Common configuration patterns]
* [http://summit.openstack.org/sessions/view/29 Stable branch maintenance]
* [http://summit.openstack.org/sessions/view/28 openstack-common library]
* [http://summit.openstack.org/sessions/view/78 Glance backend storage capabilities]
* [http://summit.openstack.org/sessions/view/66 Smoke testing realistic deployment]
* [http://summit.openstack.org/sessions/view/95 Versioning the Nova RPC APIs]
* [http://summit.openstack.org/sessions/view/113 Resource rationing in Glance]

= OpenStack Security Issues =

Dan Prince identified two security issues:

# [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-1585 CVE-2012-1585 Long server names grow nova-api log files significantly] (public Thursday, March 29th, 1500UTC)
# [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-1572 CVE-2012-1572 Extremely long passwords can crash Keystone] (public Tuesday, March 27th, 1500UTC)

These were promptly addressed through Russell Bryant on the [http://openstack.org/projects/openstack-security/ OpenStack Vulnerability Management Team].

We have now fully documented [[OpenStack vulnerability management|the process for handling and releasing security updates for OpenStack in Fedora]].

= Fedora 17 Updates =

== Getting Started guide ==

[[Getting started with OpenStack on Fedora 17|Testing OpenStack Essex on Fedora 17]] continues, with the setup
instructions being kept up to date, and improved. For example, Cole Robinson updated the instructions to use OpenStack commands rather than euca2ools.

== Release Candidate packages ==

Alan Pevec made a [http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/apevec/openstack-preview/fedora-17/ Fedora 17 preview repo] available for providing the latest openstack packages irrespective of release freeze scheduling.

Fedora 17 has currently got Essex RC1 releases of Nova, Glance, Keystone, Quantum, and Swift 1.4.8 available. With the emphasis on testing and fixing before the final release there have been subsequent upstream fixes:

* [https://review.openstack.org/#q,project:openstack/nova+branch:milestone-proposed,n,z nova milestone-proposed changes]
* [https://review.openstack.org/#q,project:openstack/glance+branch:milestone-proposed,n,z glance milestone-proposed changes]
* [https://review.openstack.org/#q,project:openstack/keystone+branch:milestone-proposed,n,z keystone milestone-proposed changes]
* [https://review.openstack.org/#q,project:openstack/quantum+branch:milestone-proposed,n,z quantum milestone-proposed changes]

Other updates not included in the above lists are, for example, [https://review.openstack.org/5606 a fix to support libvirt images on GlusterFS].

The final Essex releases with the above fixes are being prepared and tested. Subsequent updates may also be included in the Fedora packages like:

* [https://review.openstack.org/5910 Eoghan Glynn's quota headroom reporting]
* [https://review.openstack.org/#change,6164 Fix nova issue with --libvirt_nonblocking]

Alan Pevec has been polishing Swift packages, in conjunction with testing from Derek Higgins:

* [http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=openstack-swift.git;a=commitdiff;h=6a53f5b1 support for multiple swift instances]
* [http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=openstack-swift.git;a=commitdiff;h=dae45a61 add man pages]
* [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/807170 additional init scripts]
* [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/807179 include default configs]
* [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/809198 SELinux issues]

== Other updates ==

The python-eventlet package used by OpenStack was [http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=python-eventlet.git;a=blob;f=dummythread_leak.patch;hb=HEAD updated to fix resource leaks].

Fedora specific changes have been made too, including:

* [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/805947 Fix process restarting with systemd and KillMode=process]
* Glance switched to MySQL by default rather than sqlite

Following on from OpenStack test day observations, SELinux fixes have been included to support new OpenStack services:

* [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/760054 policy for quantum]
* [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/801352 policy for nova-cert]

= Misc News =

Russell Bryant has continued to [[OpenStack devstack|work on Fedora support in devstack]], which is a script to setup openstack services for development on a single node. Adam Young then [http://adam.younglogic.com/2012/03/fedora-16-devstack/ documented his use of devstack] to setup his environment.

A couple of new Fedora OpenStack packagers have joined, [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/user/view/gkotton Gary Kotton (gkotton)] and [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/user/view/rackerjoe Joe Breu (rackerjoe)].

Lorin Hochstein [https://github.com/openstack/openstack-manuals/commit/e556012c updated the upstream OpenStack manuals] to include information on Fedora "Virtual Machine" images.

Finally, There were a couple of blogs relating to OpenStack and Fedora:

* [http://adam.younglogic.com/2012/03/shared-nothing-diskless-boot/ Shared Nothing Diskless Boot]
* [http://saiweb.co.uk/openstack/rhel-6-openstack-via-epel-nova-and-glance-on-kvm/ RHEL 6 Openstack via EPEL Nova and Glance on KVM]