Category Archives: openstack

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Openstack Summit Fall 2011 – Wrap-up and overview

Posted on October 8, 2011 by Joe

I’m back from the OpenStack design summit and conference, just held in Boston, MA. It was a fantastic week, with the first three days dedicated to the design summit – getting down and dirty with the details, and the last … Continue reading →

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Installing OpenStack – Diablo release (nova and glance)

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Joe

I know a lot of folks are using the StackOps script thingy to install OpenStack. I’ve been installing it (quite a bit) lately just from packages, and it’s not all that difficult, so I thought I’d write up the details … Continue reading →

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OpenStack Diablo Release Meetup in Seattle

Posted on September 17, 2011 by Joe

If you’re into OpenStack, come join us on September 28th to celebrate the Diablo release with other stackers in Seattle. HP Cloud Services has graciously offered up their offices at 701 Pike St, Suite 1100, Seattle WA to host a … Continue reading →

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As the diablo milestone nears…

Posted on September 17, 2011 by Joe

In the openstack project, we’re nearing the “Diablo Milestone”. To a large respect, it’s the fourth release of OpenStack. Even as we close down on the tail end of this release, there has been and is a huge amount of … Continue reading →

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Inside the Nova service framework

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Joe

In my previous spelunking article, I went over the basic pieces needed to get a nova service stood up. Well okay – I skipped logging – maybe another article later for that later… Quick recap: The service framework in nova … Continue reading →

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Spelunking Nova – flags and services

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Joe

I’ve been doing a lot of spelunking into the nova codebase, digging around and trying to learn some of the under pinnings. Some of these pieces were a bit confusing to me, so I’m stashing them up here for Google … Continue reading →

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Nearly at the top of that first hill

Posted on November 13, 2010 by Joe

I’ve been thinking about the past week at the OpenStack Design Summit (Bexar) solidly from last night (flying home from San Antonio, TX) through the various errands I’ve been running today. This morning Rick Clark tweeted “A question about OpenStack”. … Continue reading →

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Hacking on OpenStack’s Nova

Posted on August 8, 2010 by Joe

Like quite a number of other folks, I’ve been lurking on the OpenStack mailing lists since I saw the announcements. Friday, Eric Day put out a call to help with the “get this code into shape” against PEP8 and pylint. … Continue reading →

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