From rbowen at redhat.com Mon Nov 11 21:55:25 2013 From: rbowen at redhat.com (Rich Bowen) Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 16:55:25 -0500 Subject: [Rdo-newsletter] RDO Community Newsletter, November 2013 Message-ID: <5281524D.7090906@redhat.com> Thanks for being part of the RDO community! RDO is the latest stable OpenStack packaged for RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, and derivative distributions, making it as easy as possible to deploy OpenStack on the industry's most trusted Linux platforms. This month's newsletter is a little late because I'm out of the office this week - as I write this, I'm at the OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong! More about that in a moment. October Events Several of the RDO community were in Edinburgh for LinuxCon Europe - http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-europe - October 21-23. The CloudOpen event - http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/cloudopen-europe - was well attended and had some great content, including a number of presentations on OpenStack with RDO. Several of us met up to talk about what we might do better on the RDO website, and hopefully you'll see some of this in the coming weeks. On October 12th, the OpenStack foundation released OpenStack 2013.2, code named Havana. You can read more about Havana on the OpenStack website at http://www.openstack.org/software/havana/ The RDO release of Havana followed the next day, and a few days later we conducted a test day of those packages - http://openstack.redhat.com/RDO_Test_Day_October_2013 Test days are a great way to ferret out problems with new packages, and are also a way to get running quickly with the help of other people working through similar problems. We'll have more of these in the months to come, so stay tuned to the forum, and the rdo-list mailing list, for announcements. To follow up on our very successful Google Hangout last month, we had another session on OpenStack networking, by Brent Eagles and Joe Talerico, this time more advanced than last time. If you missed it, you can watch the video, as well as others, on the RDO Videos page at http://openstack.redhat.com/RDO_Videos November Events As I mentioned earlier, as I was writing this newsletter, I was at the OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong. It's been a very full week, full of technical sessions, parties, and dozens of conversations with members of the OpenStack community, who have gathered from all over the world. Hong Kong is amazing, and even a little overwhelming, and it's going to take weeks to get through my notes from the event. A major feature of the OpenStack Summit is the OpenStack Design Summit, in which plans are made for the next release, code named Icehouse. The OpenStack developer community doesn't spend much time celebrating past victories, but is constantly pushing forward to the next one. Over the coming weeks, I'll be posting some interviews to the RDO website, in which various engineers talk about what they're working on for Icehouse, and the exiting things they're watching across the Openstack ecosystem. You can see some of what you missed by watching the presentations from various RDO engineers, at http://openstack.redhat.com/OpenStack_Summit_Hong_Kong_Presentations Look for another Google Hangout in the coming weeks. We should have an announcement for you on the RDO Forum - http://openstack.redhat.com/forum/ - as soon as we've recovered a little from this week. If you're in Pennsylvania, Connecticut or New York, plan to attend the upcoming OpenStack Meetups, November 19, 20, and 21, where Dan Radez will be talking about how to install and configure OpenStack. You can read more about these meetups at https://plus.google.com/+RichBowen/posts/7TZEn8erFq2 and join our Google Plus community - https://plus.google.com/communities/110409030763231732154 - to keep informed of these kinds of events in the future. Articles There have been a number of great new articles recently on the wiki. I particularly wanted to draw your attention to the 'Networking In Too Much Detail' document - http://openstack.redhat.com/Networking_in_too_much_detail - which gives a very deep description of networking in OpenStack, if you want to really understand how it all fits together. Highly recommended. Other new or recently improved articles include: * MySQL Multi-Master Replication and HA - http://openstack.redhat.com/RDO_MySQL_Multi-Master_Replication_Active -Active_HA * Getting Started with GRE - http://openstack.redhat.com/GettingStartedHavana_w_GRE * Deploying RDO using Tuskar and Triple-O - http://openstack.redhat.com/Deploying_RDO_Using_Tuskar_And_TripleO If you've seen any great new articles on RDO or OpenStack, please share them with us on the RDO Forum (http://openstack.redhat.com/forum/ ) In Closing Thanks again for being part of the RDO community. Please invite your friends to sign up for the list, at https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rdo-newsletter and send them to the RDO Forum with their OpenStack questions. Rich, for the RDO Community: http://openstack.redhat.com/ Twitter: @RDOCommunity Google+: https://plus.google.com/communities/110409030763231732154 From rbowen at redhat.com Tue Nov 12 14:29:22 2013 From: rbowen at redhat.com (Rich Bowen) Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 09:29:22 -0500 Subject: [Rdo-newsletter] RDO on FLOSS Weekly tomorrow! Message-ID: <52823B42.1000708@redhat.com> Tomorrow, Wednesday November 13, at 8:30 Pacific time ( http://tm3.org/flossweekly ), Rich Bowen and Dave Neary will be speaking with Aaron Newcomb and Gareth Greenaway on the FLOSS Weekly show! Tune in at http://live.twit.tv/ and the event will be archived there afterwards. -- Rich Bowen - rbowen at redhat.com OpenStack Community Liaison http://openstack.redhat.com/