OpenStack status

[Pádraig Brady]

Hi,

Here is the latest Fedora OpenStack status report:

     https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OpenStack_status_report_2012-12-21

Historical archives are here:

     http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OpenStack_status_reports

Cheers,
Pádraig.

(appended below for convenience)

= Distro News =

== Folsom update for Fedora 18 and EPEL ==
Stable Folsom [http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2012-November/000057.html 2012.2.1 releases]
for Nova, Glance, Keystone, Cinder, Quantum and Horizon were released to F18 and EPEL6
in first week of December, and a follow up 2012.2.2 release for Nova a week later.

== Grizzly Milestone 1 for Rawhide and RHEL (derivatives) ==
Grizzly milestone 1 packages were released to rawhide in first week of December,
and also made available for RHEL derivatives at this
[http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/openstack/openstack-grizzly/epel-6/ side repository]

Thierry Carrez blogged about
[http://fnords.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/what-to-expect-from-grizzly-1-milestone/ what to expect from Grizzly-1 milestone]

== The future of OpenStack in EPEL ==
There has been [http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/cloud/2012-November/001976.html discussion]
on how to handle OpenStack in EPEL going forward with the plan to detach OpenStack from EPEL
and make it available through additional repositories.

= Project News =

== The future of Incubation and Core ==

Mark McLoughlin summarizes the ongoing discussion to define
[http://blogs.gnome.org/markmc/2012/11/17/the-future-of-incubation-and-core/ the future of Incubation and Core].

== Red Hat Upstream contributions ==

[https://review.openstack.org/#/q/owner:berrange@redhat.com,n,z Dan Berrangé] has been improving
libvirt and libguestfs integration in nova.

[https://review.openstack.org/#/q/owner:markmc@redhat.com,n,z Mark McLoughlin] continued work on
the [https://launchpad.net/oslo oslo] and OpenStack stable releases.

Nikola Đipanov has been [https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/improve-boot-from-volume improving boot from volume]

There is too much to track in detail the OpenStack upstream activity of Red Hat developers,
but here is a link showing the [http://goo.gl/2eQJk latest Red Hat OpenStack upstream development]

= Community Engagement =

The SICSR in Pune India, has run an
[http://www.shakthimaan.com/posts/2012/12/03/openstack-symbiosis-pune-december-2012/news.html OpenStack workshop]
using Essex on Fedora 17.

Etsuji Nakai prepared slides with detailed diagrams on
[http://www.slideshare.net/enakai/how-quantum-configures-virtual-networks-under-the-hood How Quantum configures Virtual Networks under the Hood]

Daniel Berrangé documented details of running
[https://www.berrange.com/posts/2012/11/19/walk-through-of-running-openstack-on-fedora-17-using-devstack/ OpenStack on Fedora 17 using DevStack]

Martyn Taylor and Steven Hardy have prepared a screencast demoing an
[http://blogs.gnome.org/markmc/2012/12/12/image-building-service-demo/ Image Building Service for OpenStack]

Derek Higgins [http://goodsquishy.com/2012/12/introducing-openstack-packstack/ introduces packstack], the OpenStack installer

= Related Projects =

Vincent Untz has started working on
[http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2012-December/004135.html openSUSE support in smokestack/firestack]