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OpenStack around the web
There's a lot of interesting stuff being written about OpenStack—here's a sampling:
- OpenStack Technical Commitee Update: This commitee discusses OpenStack DNS-as-a-Service project, Designate, moves to incubation; a review of Glance; project incubation and graduation requirements, and more.
- Moving forward as a User Experience Team in the OpenStack Juno release cycle: Liz Blanchard sums up a few of the team's goals for the coming months, including better communication, work prioritization, task tracking, and more.
- Recap - Openstack Israel 2014: Maish Saidel-Keesing summarizes some of the best presentations, tweets, photos, and more from #OpenStackIL.
- OpenStack: If developers build on it, users will come: This guest post at Venture Beat looks at the difference between OpenStack and the proprietary cloud as compared to Android and the iPhone.
- Red Hat at the OpenStack Summit: Rich Bowen shares this podcast of several of his conversations with engineers at OpenStack Summit.
- Understanding OpenStack Designated Code Sections – Three Critical Questions: A look at DefCore and what code might be required to call a project OpenStack.
OpenStack discussions
Here's a sample of some of the most active discussions this week on the OpenStack developers' listserv. For a more in-depth look, why not dive in yourself?
- Marconi: Reconsidering the unified API model: The tradeoffs between a single API and a split API for addressing different messaging patterns.
- Calling on Security Engineers / Developers / Architects - Time to share your toys: A call to work together and openly on security review and threat analysis for OpenStack.
- Nova: Do any hyperviors allow disk reduction as part of resize?: Where does the code belong for checkin if target root or ephemeral disks are smaller than the current ones.
- Loading clients from a CONF object: A spec has been proposed to outline the problem with inconsistencies in clients making it difficult to configure a service.
OpenStack events
Here's what is happening this week in OpenStack. What are we missing? Email us and let us know, or add it to our events calendar.
- Weekly Community Office Hours: June 17, 2014; #openstack-community channel on Freenode
- RDO Weekly Community Meeting: June 17, 2014; #RDO channel on Freenode
- Scalable Storage for OpenStack - Ceph, Swift, ZFS: June 17, 2014; Paris, France
- OpenStack Summit Recap and Configuration Management with SaltStack: June 19, 2014; Philadelphia, PA
- Cloud World Forum: June 17-18, 2014; London, UK
- Openstack Meetup: Norwegian User Experiences: June 18, 2014; Oslo, Norway
- Heat, Cloud-Init, and the Metadata Proxy: June 19, 2014; Atlanta, GA
- OpenStack Summit Recap and Configuration Management with SaltStack: June 19, 2014; Philadelphia, PA
- Weekly Community Office Hours: June 20, 2014; #openstack-community channel on Freenode
- Object Storage using OpenStack Swift: June 21, 2014; Bangalore, India
A special thanks to Stefano Maffulli and the OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter, available under a Creative Commons 3.0 License, for linking us to many of these stories.
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