OpenStack status
Pádraig Brady
P at draigBrady.com
Wed Jan 23 16:00:33 UTC 2013
Hi,
Here is the latest Fedora OpenStack status report:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OpenStack_status_report_2013-01-23
Historical archives are here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OpenStack_status_reports
Cheers,
Pádraig.
(appended below for convenience)
For other reports see: [[OpenStack_status_reports|OpenStack Fedora Reports]]
= Distro News =
== Fedora 18 released ==
Fedora 18 was released on Jan 15th and includes the Folsom OpenStack release.
In conjunction [http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/cloud/2013-January/002192.html Fedora cloud images] were also released
in raw and qcow2 format. These can be used directly with OpenStack etc. and include cloud-init.
== Grizzly Milestone 2 for Rawhide and RHEL (derivatives) ==
Grizzly milestone 2 packages were released to rawhide in the second week of January,
and also made available for RHEL derivatives at this
[http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/openstack/openstack-grizzly/epel-6/ side repository]
= Project News =
== OpenStack Summit ==
The [http://www.openstack.org/summit/portland-2013/ OpenStack Summit in portland] has been announced for April 15th to 18th.
These twice annual summits cater for developers, users and administrators.
== OpenStack Foundation End-of-Year Update ==
The [http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/foundation/2013-January/001301.html OpenStack Foundation summary for 2012]
was posted, detailing income and expenses etc.
== Red Hat Upstream contributions ==
[https://review.openstack.org/#/q/owner:dprince@redhat.com,n,z Dan Prince] has added support to the upstream OpenStack Continuous Integration
infrastructure for running [https://review.openstack.org/#/q/project:openstack-infra/config+branch:master+topic:rhel,n,z unit tests on RHEL instances]:
[https://review.openstack.org/#/q/owner:berrange@redhat.com,n,z Dan Berrangé] has continued to improve libvirt integration in nova.
[https://review.openstack.org/#/q/owner:jbresnah@redhat.com,n,z John Bresnahan] has been investigating
an [https://tropicaldevel.wordpress.com/2013/01/11/an-image-transfers-service-for-openstack/ image transfers service for OpenStack]
and has merged a change to nova to [https://review.openstack.org/#/c/19408/ directly copy a file URL from glance].
[https://review.openstack.org/#/q/owner:gkotton@redhat.com+project:openstack/quantum,n,z Gary Kotton] has continued to fix many issues in quantum.
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 =
Anton Beloglazov has recently updated
[https://github.com/beloglazov/openstack-centos-kvm-glusterfs/ a Step-by-Step Guide to Deploying OpenStack on CentOS Using KVM and GlusterFS]
Kyle Mestery blogs on [http://www.siliconloons.com/?p=395 setting up a Multi-node OpenStack Folsom Fedora setup, using devstack with VXLANs]
John Bresnahan blogs about [https://tropicaldevel.wordpress.com/2012/12/22/openstack-from-scratch-on-fedora-17-part-1-the-setup/ Setting up OpenStack on Fedora 17]
Etsuji Nakai details [http://d.hatena.ne.jp/enakai00/20130118/1358474820 setting up Folsom on Fedora 18 with Quantum OVS plugin using VLAN]
== linux.conf.au 2013 ==
The [https://lca2013.linux.org.au/wiki/Miniconfs/OpenStack linux.conf.au OpenStack Miniconf] is taking place on Feb 29th, with many talks, including:
At 14:35, Angus Salkeld will introduce the [https://lca2013.linux.org.au/wiki/Miniconfs/OpenStack#The_OpenStack_Metering_Project The celiometer project]
== FOSDEM 2013 ==
The [https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/cloud/ Cloud dev room] on Sunday Feb 3rd has many OpenStack presentations, including:
At 10:00, Mark McLoughlin’s talks on [https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/openstack_app_arch/ OpenStack: 21st Century App Architecture and Cloud Operations]<br/>
where he will expose how OpenStack is built with the same resilience and automation principles as highly-scalable cloud applications.
At 13:30 Martyn Taylor will demonstrate [https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/image_management/ OpenStack Horizon in conjunction with Aeolus Image Factory]
At 15:30, Tomas Sedovic will introduce [https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/openstack_heat/ Orchestrating complex deployments on OpenStack using Heat]<br/>
The Heat project is in OpenStack incubation currently so this is a great opportunity to learn more about it.
At 16:30, Nick Barcet, Eoghan Glynn and Julien Danjou will introduce the other OpenStack project
currently in incubation [https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/openstack_ceilometer/ Measuring OpenStack: the Ceilometer Project]
= Related Projects =
== packstack on stackforge ==
The packstack OpenStack installer has [https://review.openstack.org/#/q/project:stackforge/packstack,n,z started to use stackforge]
infrastructure for development.
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