Here’s what RDO engineers have been writing about over the past week.

If you’re writing about RDO, or about OpenStack on CentOS, Fedora or RHEL, and you’re not on my list, please let me know!

Filtering libvirt XML in Nova, by Lars Kellogg-Stedman

I saw a request from a customer float by the other day regarding the ability to filter the XML used to create Nova instances in libvirt. The customer effectively wanted to blacklist a variety of devices (and device types). The consensus seems to be “you can’t do this right now and upstream is unlikely to accept patches that implement this behavior”, but it sounded like an interesting problem, so…

… read more at http://tm3.org/blog86

Installing nova-docker in N easy steps, by Lars Kellogg-Stedman

This post comes about indirectly by a request on IRC in #rdo for help getting nova-docker installed on Fedora 21. I ran through the process from start to finish and decided to write everything down for posterity.

… read more at http://tm3.org/blog87

Fedora packaging workshop, by Matthias Runge

This part assumes, you already have the tools installed like described in earlier part.

… Rad more at http://tm3.org/blog88