Keeping up to date with OpenStack Blueprints
OpenStack is a living product – and because it is community driven - changes are being proposed almost constantly. So how do you keep up with all of these proposed changes? And even more so why would …
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In my previous post I showed you how to get your OpenStack git environment up and running by using a container. In this post we will go through the steps needed to actually contribute code. This will …
Introducing VIRL Personal Edition
This is an internal Cisco tool which is so useful – that I am really pleased that it is finally available for public consumption. VIRL Stands for Virtual Internet Routing Lab What Is VIRL? VIRL is …
Start Contributing to OpenStack - The Easy Way docker
One of the most daunting and complicated things people find when trying to provide feedback and suggestions to the OpenStack community, projects and code – is the nuts and bolts of actually getting …
Automating Blog Retweets
I love IFTTT – it is a simple way to automate things. If This Then That. If something happens – then do something else. I am already using a number of IFTTT recipes to help me in automating my daily …
Presenting - the Ignite way
Today I gave a presentation – actually two – but they were very different. How many of you have heard about Ignite? Ignite is the name for a particular type of event that is held throughout the …
Devs are from Mars, Ops are from Venus
I will be delivering a talk at the upcoming DevOpsDays Tel Aviv which will be on this coming Sunday and Monday. DevOps is one of my personal interests, especially educating of the other side of the …
How Operators Can Get Involved in Kilo OpenStackSummit
I participated on Monday in the Ops Summit: How to get involved in Kilo, and as these sessions are not recorded I wanted to convey the messages that were conveyed at the session. But first, the Ops …
Putting Some Ops in the Dev - OpenStack Summit
I am currently writing this post from the plane on the way to the summit in Paris. For those of you who are living under a rock, or were completely unaware, this is the biannual …
Nova-Docker on Juno
Containers are hot. It is the latest buzzword. Unfortunately buzzwords are not always the right way to go, but I have been wanting to use containers as a first class citizen on OpenStack for a while. …