2015-04-24

Here's the news from the OpenStack world you won't want to miss -- the musings, polemics and questions posed by the larger community.

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In Case You Missed It

Ahead of the Amazon earnings call, The Economist took a peek at the cloud computing industry. In its opinion, cloud providers run the risk of ending up "somewhat like airlines and mass-market carmakers: chronically afflicted by overcapacity, constantly struggling to achieve a decent margin and perennially hoping that their competitors will keel over first." It's always interesting to read 30,000 foot-view of a mainstream weekly (this is, at best, what your relatives will know about what you do all day) and don't miss the comments section.

Think big is always better? Think again. Mercado Libre's 14-person team handles one of the world's largest e-commerce sites, thanks to OpenStack. More about how they do it -- and the challenges of finding those stellar team members -- on Computing, free registration required.

Ed Leafe, OpenStack hacker at IBM, spent some time manning the OpenStack booth at the recent PyCon. His experience, recounted on his personal blog, will ring true for anyone who's been on the front lines.

"Some had heard the name, but not much else. Others knew it was “cloud something,” but weren’t sure what that something was. Others had installed and played around with it, and had very specific configuration questions. Many people, even those familiar with what OpenStack was, were surprised to learn that it is written entirely in Python, and that it is by far the largest Python project today. It was great to be able to talk to so many different people and share what the OpenStack community is all about."

Speaking of community, Citrix joined the OpenStack Foundation as a corporate sponsor this week. The press release features welcome aboard messages from fellow members at Cisco, Intel, Mirantis and Rackspace.

Veteran IT journalist Mike Vizard at Talkin' Cloud had this to say about the Foundation's newest member: "If nothing else, having Citrix contributing to the OpenStack Foundation should considerably reduce a level of noise in the open source community that for all intents and purposes at this point has become little more than a distraction."

Wondering what's up with open virtual networks (OVN)? Russell Bryant, Red Hat software engineer and individual director at OpenStack, has an OVN status update ready for you.

Diane Mueller, who lives near Vancouver, will be sharing her tips for discovering the best in eats, drinks and activities city in Superuser's special Summit print edition....Until then, check these out:

#Vancouver Magazine Restaurant Awards list for 2015 < more #OpenStack Summit tips from a local http://t.co/Y6JDqxqkr6

— Diane Mueller (@pythondj) April 22, 2015

Now that the Security project is an official part of @OpenStack we get a bit of space at the design summit! http://t.co/yDlQcnGxQ7

— Rob (@hyakuhei) April 24, 2015

@mokhalid breaks down what's new inside #Cinder with the @OpenStack #Kilo release #storage #EMCer
https://t.co/JbSTFJ12QP

— Michael Greene (@callongreene) April 24, 2015

A great new set of step-by-step (page) tutorials for OpenStack - http://t.co/ZkOec9jQ55

— David Bennett (@dbpercona) April 24, 2015

@randybias thank You for "The 6 Requirements of Enterprise-grade OpenStack" It's must-read for every cloud pro who is thinking about interop

— Michał Smereczyński (@smereczynski) April 21, 2015

My keynote for @connect_au OpenStack track is now available on slideshare: http://t.co/7v1MkLRUmj

— Randy Bias (@randybias) April 21, 2015

Like @latticecf? Run @OpenStack? Test my pull request for #Terraform deployment! https://t.co/M3emhgKhF1

— Matt Johnson (@MattdashJ) April 24, 2015

Dogfooding our own #OpenStack #SaaS, our Co-Founder @bcle00 narrates how we did it in this blog post http://t.co/WFcqoCGITg

— Platform9 Systems (@Platform9Sys) April 23, 2015

Intrusion Detection Systems alert when hackers attack systems. Dan Lambright explores how to run IDS in #OpenStack http://t.co/DpJIev04gv

— OpenStack (@OpenStack) April 21, 2015

get your scheduling on for the #openstack summit! thanks again @mjfork! https://t.co/yovX625U1z

— Johanna Koester (@jokoester) April 22, 2015

If number of beers drunk is any indication, this #OpenStack release process is by far the hardest ever.

— Thierry Carrez (@tcarrez) April 22, 2015

Given the Big Tent in OpenStack, anyone proposing top-down management and culture change is going to be fighting against the tide.

— Kyle Mestery (@mestery) April 22, 2015

The OpenStack Gate is broken by both a requirement cap, and a missing requirement cap. Sometimes there are just too many bears.

— Sean Dague (@sdague) April 21, 2015

I’ll be at the #OpenStack summit in Vancouver — very excited as its my first one!

— Gregory Farnum (@gregsfortytwo) April 21, 2015

Slides from @MdrnStm's Getting Identity into the Cloud - #OpenStack Keystone at http://t.co/P7Z3XvEQsy

— Elizabeth K. Joseph (@pleia2) April 21, 2015

.@MaxtaInc at the Austin @OpenStack meet up #OSATX. “Demystifying #hyperconvergence” Preso: http://t.co/CY9OjcaZ9s pic.twitter.com/fn6QKI56ot

— Maxta Inc. (@MaxtaInc) April 21, 2015

OpenStack & Docker lead as most valued and most improved open source project http://t.co/FxTGmPFymI #FutureOSS pic.twitter.com/3yRctfvhUm

— Mirantis OpenStack (@MirantisIT) April 21, 2015

Video of @MdrnStm's Keystone talk at the metup last night: https://t.co/Hdf3uME0n7 Informative presentation and great questions! #OpenStack

— Elizabeth K. Joseph (@pleia2) April 17, 2015

My fellow Red Hater Gordon Chung is now officially the new Ceilometer PTL, yay!
http://t.co/D1yxu8zJkG

— Julien Danjou (@juldanjou) April 17, 2015

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