Highlights of the weeks
OpenStack Outreach Program for Women Still Accepting Candidates
<http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/11/openstack-outreach-program-for-women-accepting-candidates/>
We are constantly moving and growing and very excited to invite
newcomers to our community. To this end, the OpenStack Foundation has
joined the GNOME Outreach Program for Women. The Women in OpenStack
group has already found some mentors for the program and ideas for
projects are flowing in. If you know women that may be interested in
joining OpenStack please tell them to read our blog post
<http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/11/openstack-outreach-program-for-women-accepting-candidates/>
with more details. The deadline is approaching (Dec 3) and we still have
place for candidates.
OpenStack Nova, Glance, Keystone, Cinder, Quantum and Horizon
2012.2.1 released
<http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2012-November/000057.html>
The OpenStack Stable Branch Maintainers Team has been busy selectively
back-porting bugfixes to the stable/folsom branch according to our "safe
source of high-impact fixes" criteria documented on the wiki page
StableBranch <http://wiki.openstack.org/StableBranch>. We're happy to
announce the 2012.2.1 release, the first in the series of releases to
make available the bugfixes from stable/folsom. A total of 139 bugs have
been fixed in this release, which is a higher than the usual volume of
fixes in a stable release.
What to expect from Grizzly-1 milestone
<http://fnords.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/what-to-expect-from-grizzly-1-milestone/>
The first milestone of the OpenStack Grizzly development cycle is just
out
<http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2012-November/000054.html>.
What should you expect from it? What significant new features were
added? With more than 399 bugfixes landing in this milestone, Grizzly-1
contains already lots of new features. Thierry's blog post adds details
for what changed in each component.
Developing OpenStack Dashboard using Fedora
<http://www.matthias-runge.de/2012/11/20/developing-openstack-dashboard-using-fedora/>
Many developers recommend using devstack <http://devstack.org/> to work
on OpenStack. Matthias Runge <http://www.matthias-runge.de/> doesn't
recommend that for Dashboard (Dan Berrange <http://berrange.com/> has an
article providing more details
<http://berrange.com/posts/2012/11/20/what-devstack-does-to-your-host-when-setting-up-openstack-on-fedora-17/>).
Good news is, at least for OpenStack's dashboard, devstack is not
required in any case, it just runs on plain Fedora. Matthias swears that
the instructions provided for Fedora's test day
<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2012-09-18_OpenStack> worked
great, no rocket science and no engineering master required.
What DevStack does to your host when setting up OpenStack on
Fedora 17
<http://berrange.com/posts/2012/11/20/what-devstack-does-to-your-host-when-setting-up-openstack-on-fedora-17/>
DevStack is one of those huge, massive scripts that requires super user
access to your machine. Understanding what it does to your setup is
pretty complex. Daniel P. Berrangé <http://berrange.com/> did most of
the work for us investigating just what DevStack does to a Fedora 17
host when it is run. Fascinating read.
The Future of Incubation and Core
<http://blogs.gnome.org/markmc/2012/11/17/the-future-of-incubation-and-core/>
Mark McLoughlin summarizes quite well the ongoing discussion to define
the future of Incubation nd Core. The OpenStack Technical Committee
<http://www.openstack.org/foundation/technical-committee/> and the
OpenStack Foundation Board of Directors
<http://www.openstack.org/foundation/board-of-directors/> have pretty
separate sets of responsibilities and can get on with their work
independently. One exception to that is the inclusion of new projects in
OpenStack. In the coming weeks, members of the two bodies will decide
how to clarify confusion around the term "core project" and what exactly
happens projects who graduate through OpenStack's Incubation process. A
thread on the openstack-dev mailing list
<http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2012-November/thread.html#2387>
is ongoing and is a great example of how a mailing list discussion can
actually help to drive a rough consensus while still giving everyone an
opportunity to express their views.//
Driving a 100 Gigabit Network with OpenStack
<http://buriedlede.blogspot.com/2012/11/driving-100-gigabit-network-with.html>
Argonne National Laboratory is interested in building IaaS cloud systems
that perform similarly to traditional HPC cluster-style systems for one
of their projects. Narayan Desai
<https://plus.google.com/111442327943164013992> reports on the work to
validate the ability of an Openstack system to drive large quantities of
network bandwidth, memory to memory.
*Go to Australia in January for an OpenStack day at LCA2013
<http://bit.ly/Waue30>*
Being held in January in Canberra, Australia, linux.conf.au is one of
the foremost open source conferences in the world, and is considered the
most prestigious in the southern hemisphere. Linux.conf.au's first ever
OpenStack miniconf day is being held Jan 29, and we expect over 200
people will be attending the miniconf alone, with hundreds more
attending the week long conference. More information is available at
http://lca2013.linux.org.au/wiki/Miniconfs/OpenStack and the CFP is open
<http://bit.ly/Waue30>.
Security Advisories
* EC2-style credentials invalidation issue (CVE-2012-5571)
<http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2012-November/000055.html>
* Extension of token validity through token chaining (CVE-2012-5563)
<http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2012-November/000056.html>
Tips and tricks
* By Mirantis <http://www.mirantis.com/>: Working through DNS and DHCP
service configuration issues in OpenStack Nova
<http://www.mirantis.com/blog/dns-dhcp-service-configuration-openstack-nova/>
* By SwiftStack Team <http://swiftstack.com/>ç Video: How the Ring
Works in OpenStack Swift
<http://swiftstack.com/blog/2012/11/21/how-the-ring-works-in-openstack-swift/>
* By Emilien Macchi <http://my1.fr/blog>: First Guide to Deploy
OpenStack Folsom on Ubuntu 12.04
<http://my1.fr/blog/first-guide-to-deploy-openstack-folsom-on-ubuntu-12-04/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=first-guide-to-deploy-openstack-folsom-on-ubuntu-12-04>
* By Daniel P. Berrangé <http://berrange.com/>: Walk through of
running OpenStack on Fedora 17 using DevStack
<http://berrange.com/posts/2012/11/19/walk-through-of-running-openstack-on-fedora-17-using-devstack/>
* By Alessandro Pilotti <http://www.cloudbase.it/>: DevStack on
Hyper-V <http://www.cloudbase.it/devstack-on-hyper-v/>
Upcoming Events
* Pune OpenStack Meetup
<http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/89610092/>
Dec 02, 2012 -- Pune, India Details
<http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/89610092/>
* EMEA OpenStack Day <http://emeaopenstackday2.eventbrite.com/> Dec
05, 2012 -- London Details <http://emeaopenstackday2.eventbrite.com/>
* OpenStack Ireland December Meeting
<http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-Ireland/events/92413652/> Dec 06,
2012 -- Bishopstown, Cork, Ireland Details
<http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-Ireland/events/92413652/>
* Palestra: Explorando o OpenStack
<http://papers.consegi.gov.br/pub/programacao/823> Dec 07, 2012 --
Belem, BR Details <http://papers.consegi.gov.br/pub/programacao/823>
* OpenStack China Tour: Wuhan
<http://hui.csdn.net/MeetingInfo.aspx?mid=157> Dec 22, 2012 --
Wuhan, China Details <http://hui.csdn.net/MeetingInfo.aspx?mid=157>
Other news
* Report from past events:
o Australian OpenStack UG -- Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane Tri-City
Meetup 20/11/12
<http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/11/australian-openstack-ug-sydney-melbourne-brisbane-tri-city-meetup-201112/>
o November month OpenStack meetup, India
<http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/11/report-november-month-openstack-meetup-india/>
o 1st OpenStack Swiss User Group Meeting
<https://wiki.systemsx.ch/display/chosug/2012.11.15+1st+OpenStack+User+Group+Meeting>
* jclouds 1.5.3 Released With OpenStack Cinder and Rackspace Cloud
Block Storage Support
<http://blog.phymata.com/2012/11/20/jclouds-1-5-3-with-cinder-and-rackspace-cbs/>
* A new Nova service: nova-conductor
<http://russellbryantnet.wordpress.com/2012/11/19/a-new-nova-service-nova-conductor/>
* Bufunfa -- Chargeback [Billing] for OpenStack
<http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2012-November/003043.html>
* OpenStack Project Meeting: Summary
<http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-11-20-21.03.html>
and full logs
<http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-11-20-21.03.log.html>,
Summary
<http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-11-27-21.01.html>
and full logs
<http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-11-27-21.01.log.html>
Welcome new contributors
Celebrating the first patches submitted this week by:
* Yolanda Robla, Canonical
* dekehn
* Ken'ichi Ohmichi, NEC
* Belmiro Moreira
* Anita Kuno
* Shrutiranade38
* Morgan Fainber, Metacloud
* Wangpan, Netease
/The weekly newsletter is a way for the community to learn about all the
various activities occurring on a weekly basis. If you would like to add
content to a weekly update or have an idea about this newsletter, please
leave a comment./
OpenStack Outreach Program for Women Still Accepting Candidates
<http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/11/openstack-outreach-program-for-women-accepting-candidates/>
We are constantly moving and growing and very excited to invite
newcomers to our community. To this end, the OpenStack Foundation has
joined the GNOME Outreach Program for Women. The Women in OpenStack
group has already found some mentors for the program and ideas for
projects are flowing in. If you know women that may be interested in
joining OpenStack please tell them to read our blog post
<http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/11/openstack-outreach-program-for-women-accepting-candidates/>
with more details. The deadline is approaching (Dec 3) and we still have
place for candidates.
OpenStack Nova, Glance, Keystone, Cinder, Quantum and Horizon
2012.2.1 released
<http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2012-November/000057.html>
The OpenStack Stable Branch Maintainers Team has been busy selectively
back-porting bugfixes to the stable/folsom branch according to our "safe
source of high-impact fixes" criteria documented on the wiki page
StableBranch <http://wiki.openstack.org/StableBranch>. We're happy to
announce the 2012.2.1 release, the first in the series of releases to
make available the bugfixes from stable/folsom. A total of 139 bugs have
been fixed in this release, which is a higher than the usual volume of
fixes in a stable release.
What to expect from Grizzly-1 milestone
<http://fnords.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/what-to-expect-from-grizzly-1-milestone/>
The first milestone of the OpenStack Grizzly development cycle is just
out
<http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2012-November/000054.html>.
What should you expect from it? What significant new features were
added? With more than 399 bugfixes landing in this milestone, Grizzly-1
contains already lots of new features. Thierry's blog post adds details
for what changed in each component.
Developing OpenStack Dashboard using Fedora
<http://www.matthias-runge.de/2012/11/20/developing-openstack-dashboard-using-fedora/>
Many developers recommend using devstack <http://devstack.org/> to work
on OpenStack. Matthias Runge <http://www.matthias-runge.de/> doesn't
recommend that for Dashboard (Dan Berrange <http://berrange.com/> has an
article providing more details
<http://berrange.com/posts/2012/11/20/what-devstack-does-to-your-host-when-setting-up-openstack-on-fedora-17/>).
Good news is, at least for OpenStack's dashboard, devstack is not
required in any case, it just runs on plain Fedora. Matthias swears that
the instructions provided for Fedora's test day
<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2012-09-18_OpenStack> worked
great, no rocket science and no engineering master required.
What DevStack does to your host when setting up OpenStack on
Fedora 17
<http://berrange.com/posts/2012/11/20/what-devstack-does-to-your-host-when-setting-up-openstack-on-fedora-17/>
DevStack is one of those huge, massive scripts that requires super user
access to your machine. Understanding what it does to your setup is
pretty complex. Daniel P. Berrangé <http://berrange.com/> did most of
the work for us investigating just what DevStack does to a Fedora 17
host when it is run. Fascinating read.
The Future of Incubation and Core
<http://blogs.gnome.org/markmc/2012/11/17/the-future-of-incubation-and-core/>
Mark McLoughlin summarizes quite well the ongoing discussion to define
the future of Incubation nd Core. The OpenStack Technical Committee
<http://www.openstack.org/foundation/technical-committee/> and the
OpenStack Foundation Board of Directors
<http://www.openstack.org/foundation/board-of-directors/> have pretty
separate sets of responsibilities and can get on with their work
independently. One exception to that is the inclusion of new projects in
OpenStack. In the coming weeks, members of the two bodies will decide
how to clarify confusion around the term "core project" and what exactly
happens projects who graduate through OpenStack's Incubation process. A
thread on the openstack-dev mailing list
<http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2012-November/thread.html#2387>
is ongoing and is a great example of how a mailing list discussion can
actually help to drive a rough consensus while still giving everyone an
opportunity to express their views.//
Driving a 100 Gigabit Network with OpenStack
<http://buriedlede.blogspot.com/2012/11/driving-100-gigabit-network-with.html>
Argonne National Laboratory is interested in building IaaS cloud systems
that perform similarly to traditional HPC cluster-style systems for one
of their projects. Narayan Desai
<https://plus.google.com/111442327943164013992> reports on the work to
validate the ability of an Openstack system to drive large quantities of
network bandwidth, memory to memory.
*Go to Australia in January for an OpenStack day at LCA2013
<http://bit.ly/Waue30>*
Being held in January in Canberra, Australia, linux.conf.au is one of
the foremost open source conferences in the world, and is considered the
most prestigious in the southern hemisphere. Linux.conf.au's first ever
OpenStack miniconf day is being held Jan 29, and we expect over 200
people will be attending the miniconf alone, with hundreds more
attending the week long conference. More information is available at
http://lca2013.linux.org.au/wiki/Miniconfs/OpenStack and the CFP is open
<http://bit.ly/Waue30>.
Security Advisories
* EC2-style credentials invalidation issue (CVE-2012-5571)
<http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2012-November/000055.html>
* Extension of token validity through token chaining (CVE-2012-5563)
<http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2012-November/000056.html>
Tips and tricks
* By Mirantis <http://www.mirantis.com/>: Working through DNS and DHCP
service configuration issues in OpenStack Nova
<http://www.mirantis.com/blog/dns-dhcp-service-configuration-openstack-nova/>
* By SwiftStack Team <http://swiftstack.com/>ç Video: How the Ring
Works in OpenStack Swift
<http://swiftstack.com/blog/2012/11/21/how-the-ring-works-in-openstack-swift/>
* By Emilien Macchi <http://my1.fr/blog>: First Guide to Deploy
OpenStack Folsom on Ubuntu 12.04
<http://my1.fr/blog/first-guide-to-deploy-openstack-folsom-on-ubuntu-12-04/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=first-guide-to-deploy-openstack-folsom-on-ubuntu-12-04>
* By Daniel P. Berrangé <http://berrange.com/>: Walk through of
running OpenStack on Fedora 17 using DevStack
<http://berrange.com/posts/2012/11/19/walk-through-of-running-openstack-on-fedora-17-using-devstack/>
* By Alessandro Pilotti <http://www.cloudbase.it/>: DevStack on
Hyper-V <http://www.cloudbase.it/devstack-on-hyper-v/>
Upcoming Events
* Pune OpenStack Meetup
<http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/89610092/>
Dec 02, 2012 -- Pune, India Details
<http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/89610092/>
* EMEA OpenStack Day <http://emeaopenstackday2.eventbrite.com/> Dec
05, 2012 -- London Details <http://emeaopenstackday2.eventbrite.com/>
* OpenStack Ireland December Meeting
<http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-Ireland/events/92413652/> Dec 06,
2012 -- Bishopstown, Cork, Ireland Details
<http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-Ireland/events/92413652/>
* Palestra: Explorando o OpenStack
<http://papers.consegi.gov.br/pub/programacao/823> Dec 07, 2012 --
Belem, BR Details <http://papers.consegi.gov.br/pub/programacao/823>
* OpenStack China Tour: Wuhan
<http://hui.csdn.net/MeetingInfo.aspx?mid=157> Dec 22, 2012 --
Wuhan, China Details <http://hui.csdn.net/MeetingInfo.aspx?mid=157>
Other news
* Report from past events:
o Australian OpenStack UG -- Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane Tri-City
Meetup 20/11/12
<http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/11/australian-openstack-ug-sydney-melbourne-brisbane-tri-city-meetup-201112/>
o November month OpenStack meetup, India
<http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/11/report-november-month-openstack-meetup-india/>
o 1st OpenStack Swiss User Group Meeting
<https://wiki.systemsx.ch/display/chosug/2012.11.15+1st+OpenStack+User+Group+Meeting>
* jclouds 1.5.3 Released With OpenStack Cinder and Rackspace Cloud
Block Storage Support
<http://blog.phymata.com/2012/11/20/jclouds-1-5-3-with-cinder-and-rackspace-cbs/>
* A new Nova service: nova-conductor
<http://russellbryantnet.wordpress.com/2012/11/19/a-new-nova-service-nova-conductor/>
* Bufunfa -- Chargeback [Billing] for OpenStack
<http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2012-November/003043.html>
* OpenStack Project Meeting: Summary
<http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-11-20-21.03.html>
and full logs
<http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-11-20-21.03.log.html>,
Summary
<http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-11-27-21.01.html>
and full logs
<http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-11-27-21.01.log.html>
Welcome new contributors
Celebrating the first patches submitted this week by:
* Yolanda Robla, Canonical
* dekehn
* Ken'ichi Ohmichi, NEC
* Belmiro Moreira
* Anita Kuno
* Shrutiranade38
* Morgan Fainber, Metacloud
* Wangpan, Netease
/The weekly newsletter is a way for the community to learn about all the
various activities occurring on a weekly basis. If you would like to add
content to a weekly update or have an idea about this newsletter, please
leave a comment./