From the rdo-list mailing list:

Greetings,

Packstack packages has been updated in RDO Havana repo:

• Tue Sep 24 2013 Martin Mágr mmagr@redhat.com - 2013.2.1-0.10.dev763
• Adds “default-storage-engine=InnoDB” to /etc/my.cnf (#980593)
• Accepts more CLI options (#985361)
• Added GRE support (#1004397)

Regards, Martin

By the way, if you’re interested in the development side of RDO, you might want to be on the rdo-list mailing list, if you’re not already. You can sign up at https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rdo-list

If you haven’t already done so, please consider filling out the OpenStack User Survey, at http://www.openstack.org/user-survey The survey will close on Monday, September 30th, and is an attempt by the OpenStack Foundation to gather some data on who is using OpenStack, where and how.

If you participated in the survey last year, this is an update to that information, so it’s still valuable to fill it out.

Thanks!

Since we’ve noticed that a large percentage of questions on the RDO Forum are focused on networking, we’re planning to have a Google Hangout on September 24th, at 12pm Eastern time, (9am Pacific, 17:00 GMT, http://bit.ly/1cnEZEN for your local timezone.) You can see the hangout details, and let us know you’re coming, at https://plus.google.com/events/cph9aq3a6ag1lb17g3gsvaiiljg

The presentation will be a short overview of networking in OpenStack, the relative roles of Neutron, OVS, a little bit on where OpenDaylight and OpenFlow fit into the equation, and then a walk-through of the basic L2 & L3 workflows that people usually want to do in Neutron, and work through a couple of common situations where people have trouble (“Can’t ping my VM, can’t associate floating IP”) and the tools you might use to debug and fix these problems.

We’ll have a lot of time for Q&A, and we will have OpenStack networking experts from Red Hat on-hand to help with those.

More details, and signup, at http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/137539232/

 Talking Storage: Ceph, Swift, Gluster, Architecture and Scaling
 Tuesday, September 10, 2013
 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM

  EVault HQ
  201 3rd Street, Suite 400, San Francisco, CA

What are the emerging architectural best practices for storage in a cloud? Does mixing compute and storage scale or should storage be its own tier? How about on-ramps for traditional enterprise IT storage teams to take advantage of new scale-out storage systems?

A panel with serious chops in Ceph, Swift and Gluster will be on hand to talk about features that are driving adoption, use cases, and how devs in the communtiy can participate.

Speakers include:

• Sean Roberts, Yahoo! (moderator)
• John Dickinson, SwiftStack
• Joseph Glanville, Cloudscaling
• Anand Avati, Red Hat (Gluster community)
• Neil Levine, Inktank

We’ll have food and drink, so arrive by 6:30 to get settled, and we’ll start the program at 7pm.

See the events page for more upcoming events.

With the Havana milestone 3 due the week of September 9th, we’re planning to hold a test day on September 10th and 11th. (Yes, that’s two days. We’re doing that in order to allow all timezones to participate.)

The page where we’ll track this is being built at http://rdoproject.org/Test_Day_09_2013 and you can follow that as it gets closer to the date.

If you have time and hardware, we need your help testing. Please put your name on the list, and commit to spending a couple hours in that time period testing the new milestone and filing bugs, so that we can get things hammered out before the Havana release in early October.

If you’re able to participate, add your name to the list, and have a look at the wiki page from the last test day - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2013-04-02_OpenStack - to get an idea of how these things go. And if you can help getting the wiki page for this test day ready, please jump in anywhere.

Thanks!

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.

(You can manage your list subscription at http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rdo-newsletter )

Google Hangout, Test Day, Events

There’s several upcoming events that I want to tell you about. Wherever you are in the world, there’s probably one nearby.

With the Havana milestone 3 due out the week of September 9th, we’re planning to have an RDO Test Day on September 10th and 11th (to cover various time zones) where we can put it through its paces. The details of that test day will be at http://rdoproject.org/Test_Day_09_2013 as they become available, including what you’ll need in order to participate.

And, since we’ve noticed that a large percentage of questions on the RDO Forum - http://rdoproject.org/forum/ - are focused on networking, we’re planning to have a Google Hangout on September 24th, at 12pm Eastern time, (9am Pacific, 17:00 GMT, http://bit.ly/1cnEZEN for your local timezone.) You can see the hangout details, and let us know you’re coming, at https://plus.google.com/events/cph9aq3a6ag1lb17g3gsvaiiljg

Conferences and Meetups

There are so many events around OpenStack that it’s hard to keep track of them all. We’ve put a page at http://rdoproject.org/Events for events where you’re likely to encounter people from the RDO community, and we’d love it if you’d add your events there (it’s a wiki!) or let us know that you’re going to be there too.

Here’s some of the events that are coming up in the next few months.

The SFBay OpenStack Meetup will be held September 10, at 6:30 at EVault HQ in San Francisco. You can get more details at http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/137539232/

LinuxCon North America will be held in New Orleans, September 16-18. More details can be found at http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-north-america I’ll be there, as will a number of members of the RDO community, and we’d love to talk with you over a beer about what you’re doing with RDO. Please drop me a line (rbowen@redhat.com) if you’ll be there.

LinuxCon Europe - http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-europe - will be held in Edinburgh, October 21-23, and the KVM Forum - http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-europe - will be colocated there, so there will be lots of RDO and OpenStack activity that week. So, if you’re on that side of the world, come see us there!

And, it’s still a ways out, but the OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong (November 5-8) - http://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-summit-hong-kong-2013/ - is getting ever closer. If you’re planning to be there, please plan to stop by our booth and say hello. We’re hoping to do some interviews about how you’re using RDO in your company, so if you’re willing to partcipate in that, do let us know.

Articles

We’ve noticed a lot of great articles this month, both on the RDO site and elsewhere, about various details of deploying OpenStack with RDO. Here’s a few of them, but we also mention these on Twitter (@RDOCommunity) whenever we come across them.

Load Balacing OpenStack API Services - http://rdoproject.org/Load_Balance_OpenStack_API This guide will show how to manually deploy additional OpenStack controller nodes and configure HAProxy to load-balance each OpenStack API service.

Using GRE Tenant Networks - http://rdoproject.org/Using_GRE_Tenant_Networks Using GRE tunnels as tenant networks in Neutron avoids the need for a network interface connected to a switch configured to trunk a range of VLANs. Here are simple instructions for taking advantage of GRE for tenant networks.

Installing OpenStack (Grizzly) on CentOS 6.4 with Packstack of - http://oss.fulltrust.co.jp/?p=521 This article is in Japanese, and walks through the process of standing up an OpenStack cloud in CentOS.

OpenStack PackStack installation with external conectivity - http://allthingsopen.com/2013/08/23/openstack-packstack-installation-with-external-connectivity/ “With a lot of help and education from Perry Myers and Terry Wilson on Red Hat’s RDO team I was able to make a few modifications to the packstack installation to allow a user to use the packstack installation with –allinone and have external access to the instances launched on the host.”

Sandro Mathys has provided a great writeup of avoiding some of the common pitfalls when installing the latest OpenStack (code name Havana) on Fedora 19. You can read that at http://www.blog.sandro-mathys.ch/2013/08/install-rdo-havana-2-on-fedora-19-and.html

Finally, Dave just posted list of recent articles and blog posts to the RDO forum at http://rdoproject.org/forum/discussion/520/a-tour-of-openstack-blogs

If you come across useful articles, please let us know on @RDOCommunity, or post links on the RDO Forum, at http://rdoproject.org/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 questions and stories.

– Rich, for the RDO Community http://rdoproject.org/ @RDOCommunity rbowen@redhat.com

Recently there have been some great articles appearing describing how to do some more complex things with OpenStack. Here are a few of them for your reading pleasure.

• Auto-scaling with Heat and Ceilometer - an in-depth article on instrumenting VMs with Ceilometer and using Heat to auto-scale a service from Mehdi Abaakouk of eNovance
• An introduction to OpenStack orchestration and how Heat orchestrates your OpenStack resources by Red Hat’s Zane Bitter give a high-level overview of the Heat service
• For those following the very hot “OpenStack Core” discussions, you might be interested in Rob Hirschfeld’s series what is Core
• For people using Swift as an object store, the experiences of Spil Games using OpenStack Swift with lots of small files will make for a good read

We also have a number of compelling new pages which have been added to the wiki recently! In case you missed them:

• Using GRE tenant networks by Bob Kukura describes how to create secure tunnels for your VLANs with GRE on RDO
• Highly Available MySQL server on OpenStack walks you through configuring Pacemaker and MySQL to create a HA MySQL server for your OpenStack deployment, by Dan Radez
• Load balancing OpenStack API services from Ryan O’Hara shows you how to make your deployment more resilient by load balancing API endpoints
• Using Ceph for Block Storage with RDO will get you started using one of the most popular third-party storage engines, Ceph, as a back-end for your block storage needs - with thanks to Ross Turk from Inktank for adding the content here.

Keep them coming! And if you want to get regular email updates from the world of RDO, sign up to our monthly newsletter.

Packstack package has been updated in RDO Grizzly EPEL6 repo to openstack-packstack-2013.1.1-0.27.dev672.el6.

Changelog:

• Mon Aug 19 2013 Martin Mágr mmagr@redhat.com - 2013.1.1-0.27.dev672
• Added net.bridge.bridge-nf-call*=1 for –allinone installation (#997941)
• Added global option –exclude-servers=EXCLUDE_SERVERS (#996782)

(Via Martin on the rdo-list mailing list - https://www.redhat.com/archives/rdo-list/2013-August/msg00151.html )

Support for GRE tenant networks with Quantum/Neutron is now available in RDO!

See http://rdoproject.org/Using_GRE_Tenant_Networks for details.

Feedback is welcome (via this topic).

Greetings,

Packstack packages has been updated in RDO Grizzly and Havana repos to openstack-packstack-2013.1.1-0.24.dev660 (grizzly) and openstack-packstack-2013.2.1-0.2.dev702 (havana)

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• Tue Aug 13 2013 Martin Mágr - 2013.1.1-0.24.dev660
• ovs_use_veth=True is no longer required
• Allow tempest repo uri and revision configuration
• Update inifile module to support empty values

%changelog

• Tue Aug 13 2013 Martin Mágr - 2013.2.1-0.2.dev702
• ovs_use_veth=True is no longer required
• Remove libvirt’s default network (i.e. virbr0) to avoid confusion
• Rename Quantum to Neutron
• Added support for configuration of Cinder NFS backend driver (#916301)
• Removed CONFIG_QUANTUM_USE_NAMESPACES option

(See https://www.redhat.com/archives/rdo-list/2013-August/msg00102.html for any followup posts.)