OpenStack status

[Pádraig Brady]

Hi,

Here is the latest Fedora OpenStack status report:

  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OpenStack_status_report_2012-07-12

Historical archives are here:

  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OpenStack_status_reports

Cheers,
Pádraig.

(appended below for convenience)

= Distro News =

== 2012.1.1 stable release ==
Mark McLoughlin pushed out stable tree (Essex) [http://markmail.org/message/hbki7eweg4qb2o33 2012.1.1 releases].
You can drill down to the bugs and security fixes included there.
All Essex packages were updated accordingly in Fedora 17 and EPEL 6

== sosreport integration ==
Gary Kotton wrote an [https://github.com/gkotton/sosreport/blob/openstack/sos/plugins/openstack.py OpenStack plugin for sosreport]
to help in getting diagnostics for an OpenStack installation.

== augeas integration ==
Dan Prince wrote a [https://github.com/lutter/augeas/pull/6 python-paste Augeas lense]
which allowing Augeas to [https://github.com/fedora-openstack/openstack-puppet/commit/ec483680fced8f29cd1b29f0fe488690ce60f1dd manage nova and glance paste configs]

= Upstream News =

== OpenStack Grizzly ==

OpenStack G release is to be called "Grizzly"
with the [http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/06/openstack-summit-coming-october-15th-19th-to-san-diego-ca/ Grizzly design summit]
being held in San Diego, CA, October 15-19.

== folsom milestone 2 released ==
The [https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg14248.html folsom-2 development milestone] was released on July 5th,
and you can drill down there to the bugs and blueprints targetted.

== Bug Squashing day ==
Following the last very successful Bug Squashing day
another is scheduled for [http://wiki.openstack.org/BugDays/20120712BugSquashing Thursday July 12th]

== Red Hat contributions ==

Dan Prince is working on [https://github.com/dprince/glance/commits/swift_multi_tenant3 multi-tenant support for the Glance swift store]

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/aewXr latest Red Hat OpenStack upstream development]

= Red Hat summit =

* Russell Bryant co-presented about OpenShift on OpenStack
* Derek Higgins and Russell Bryant led the successful OpenStack lab session
* Mark McLoughlin presented on [http://rhsummit.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/mcloughlin_openstack_arch.pdf OpenStack Architecture & Developer Introduction]
* Vin Sharma presented on designing a Trusted Cloud with OpenStack
* Perry Myers presented on [http://rhsummit.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/myers_openstack_overview_iaas1.pdf Introduction & Overview of OpenStack for IaaS Clouds]
* Brian Stevens [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDdiS6pvYJg#t=1136s talked about OpenStack]
* A related article on [http://www.datamation.com/open-source/red-hats-openstack-plans-revealed.html details of Red Hat's plans for OpenStack]

= Community engagement =

== OpenStack community meetup, Boston ==
Bob Kukura spoke about "Preparing OpenStack Quantum for the Data Center"
at an [http://www.meetup.com/Openstack-Boston/events/67737262/ OpenStack community meetup in Boston on June 21st]

== SouthEast LinuxFest, Charlotte, NC ==
[http://www.southeastlinuxfest.org/2012s/speakers.html#RussellBryant Russell Bryant] spoke about OpenStack on Fedora at the SouthEast LinuxFest

== EuroPython, Florence, Italy ==
Pádraig Brady presented on [https://ep2012.europython.eu/conference/talks/openstack-overview-operational-details-large-python-project OpenStack Overview - Operational details of a large python project]

== OpenStack community meetup, London ==
Daniel Berrange will talk about libvirt usage wrt Nova + KVM/LXC
at an [http://www.meetup.com/Openstack-London/events/55354582/ OpenStack community meetup in London on July 25th]

== OpenStack community meetup, Boston ==
Adam Young will talk about Openstack Keystone
at an OpenStack community meetup in Boston at the end of July

== OSCON, Portland, OR ==
There are a large number of [http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/07/lots-of-openstack-at-oscon-2012/ OpenStack talks at OSCON 2012] in July

= Related projects =
Krishna Raman compiled instructions for setting up the [http://www.krishnaraman.net/openshift-origin-on-openstack/ OpenShift PaaS on OpenStack IaaS]

cloud-init for RHEL (derivatives) was [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/cloud-init-0.6.3-0.7.bzr532.el6 released] and has received successful testing.
Also progressing in parallel is a significant [https://code.launchpad.net/~cloud-init/cloud-init/rework cloud-init rework]
(374 commits as of 27 June) focusing on Red Hat consumability.