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Landing your first OpenStack Contribution

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 …

  • Automation
  • OpenStack
  • Miscellaneous
2 min read

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 …

  • Automation
  • Tools
  • OpenStack
  • Miscellaneous
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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 …

  • Automation
  • docker
  • OpenStack
  • Miscellaneous
3 min read

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 …

  • OpenStack
  • DevOps
  • Summit
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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 …

  • OpenStack
  • DevOps
  • Summit
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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. …

  • docker
  • OpenStack
  • Juno
  • Cloud
2 min read

My Toolbox is Becoming Heavy

I would like to add one or two more points points to my previous post - An Open Letter to the OpenStack Foundation. I used Ceilometer as an example, and only as an example. I am more than sure that …

  • OpenStack
  • Miscellaneous
  • Cloud
  • Communities
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An Open Letter to the OpenStack Foundation

I have recently started to regularly follow the mailing lists and the conversations are quite interesting. It is quite evident that that OpenStack is starting to go through growing pains. It was quite …

  • OpenStack
  • Miscellaneous
  • Cloud
  • Communities
8 min read

To Innovate or to Stabilize - That is the Question!

There has been a lively thread on the openstack-dev mailing list these past few days, largely to do with GBP. I don’t want to go into the intricacies of what exactly sparked the discussion but …

  • OpenStack
  • DevOps
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The OpenStack Architecture Design Book Authors Speak

In the OpenStack Design Summit I asked the authors the same 5 questions in order to get their thoughts and feelings on OpenStack, the community and the future. How many years have you been working …

  • Design
  • Book
  • OpenStack
  • Cloud