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In one of our projects we are making contributions to an Openstack project called Watcher, this project focuses on optimizing resource utilization of a cloud according to a given strategy. As part of this work it is important to understand … Continue reading →

It may have brought out the competitiveness of the participants, but it also demonstrated improvements in app portability. The post The Interoperability Challenge demonstrates app portability appeared first on OpenStack Superuser.

If you have installed OpenStack manually, you would have gone through a long sequence of installing and configuring various services and drivers. In every cases, these services and drivers run as processes on hosts designated as controllers, compute ... [More] nodes, etc. When containers became a topic of interest to the community about two years ago, it quickly became apparent that these processes can easily be wrapped in containers. There are several benefits for containerizing the OpenStack services. We take a look at some key aspects of two projects: OpenStack Ansible (OSA) and Kolla. What's coming next? Look for OpenStack on Kubernetes. The post OpenStack in containers appeared first on IBM OpenTech. [Less]

PLUMgrid Proves SDN Scalability with OSICOSIC TeamNovember 21, 2016By Travis Broughton   One of the more gratifying aspects of working with OSIC is seeing firsthand how the cluster's capacity is being used to advance the scalability of OpenStack.  A ... [More] recent example from PLUMgrid demonstrates that the concept of scalability means more than just the number of nodes.  Other dimensions of scalability include multitenancy, security policies, and addressability, and those were all aspects that PLUMgrid chose to cover with their time in the cluster.     Over two 3-week sessions, PLUMgrid performed testing on Liberty- and Mitaka-based distributions using two different versions of their Open Networking Suite and CloudApex SDN monitoring software.  Their testing spanned basic functionality and performance benchmarking, along with more extensive tests to validate scalability in terms of number of projects, number of Security Groups, and using NAT and Floating IP instances concurrently running within the system.     The PLUMgrid testing uncovered some new issues within the OpenStack environment, some of which were fixed with configuration and tuning changes, and some requiring upstream patches.  These changes were documented and contributed back to the community, and testing on both Liberty and Mitaka demonstrated improvements in many areas.   One of the OSIC tenets is upstream sharing of all of the work done in the cluster.  I was pleased to be able to participate in some of this sharing at the recent OpenStack Summit in Barcelona, where PLUMgrid led a session detailing their test results.  A companion scale-out report is also available.   On December 7, 2016,  we will give a webinar with a more in-depth look at the OSIC cluster, along with PLUMgrid's case study of an SDN overlay network connecting 131 nodes running over 1000 VMs.  Join this session to find out more about OSIC and the SDN scale-out test configuration, scenarios, and results. [Less]

Like the city in which we are meeting, the Barcelona OpenStack Summit feels both old and new at the same time. Barcelona is a new venue for the bi-annual Summit and as usual, there are an impressive number of first time attendees. But there is also a very familiar feel to the Summit this time — after […]

The post Best practices for running RabbitMQ in OpenStack appeared first on Mirantis | The Pure Play OpenStack Company. OpenStack depends on message queues, so it's crucial that you have the best possible setup. Most deployments include RabbitMQ, so ... [More] let's take a few minutes to look at best practices. The post Best practices for running RabbitMQ in OpenStack appeared first on Mirantis | The Pure Play OpenStack Company. [Less]

SuccessBot Says mriedem: We’re now running neutron by default in Ocata CI jobs [1]. stevemar: fernet token format is now the default format in keystone! thanks lbragstad samueldmq and dolphm for making this happen! Ajaegar: developer.openstack.org is ... [More] now hosted by OpenStack infra. Tonyb: OpenStack requirements on pypi [2] is now a thing! All Registration Open... Read more » [Less]

Last week, we held the first ever OpenStack Government Day. Held in Canberra, this event attracted a range of industry leaders from around the country to our nations capital to share insights into the future of technology within the public sector. ... [More] Aptira’s CEO Tristan Goode and Vault Systems CEO Rupert Taylor-Price were interviewed by WIN News Canberra to discuss the growth of cloud, and the huge demand for employment within the industry. The post Tristan Goode interviewed by WIN News Canberra appeared first on Aptira Cloud Solutions. [Less]

SC16 highlights growing interest and enthusiasm around OpenStack. The post OpenStack gains momentum at Supercomputing 2016 appeared first on OpenStack Superuser.

Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director of the OpenStack Foundation, kicked off day two of the Summit by tying it back to the first day’s keynote about the challenge of meeting the scalability requirements of projects such as the Square Kilometer Array ... [More] radio telescope. The SKA project is expecting to require multi-exaFLOPS — that’s one quintillion (10^18) […] [Less]