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<b>Thanks for being part of the RDO community!</b><br>
<br>
July was a busy month, and we have a lot to tell you about. If you<br>
want to keep up with what’s going on with RDO in the coming month,<br>
the best way is to follow the RDO forum, at<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bit.ly/13YEwCe">http://bit.ly/13YEwCe</a>, or to follow us on Twitter at<br>
@rdocommunity<br>
<br>
If you’d like to manage your mailing list subscription, or invite<br>
other people to join the list, you can do that at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://red.ht/11amemL">http://red.ht/11amemL</a><br>
<br>
<b>OSCon and Flock</b><br>
<br>
In July, we were at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland,<br>
Oregon, as part of the OpenStack pavilion. Thanks to those of you
who<br>
stopped by to talk with us.<br>
<br>
There was a lot of great OpenStack content at OSCon, and our own
Dave<br>
Neary led the 'OpenStack Distro Smackdown' session
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bit.ly/15FwwfK">http://bit.ly/15FwwfK</a> ).<br>
<br>
We also attended the OpenStack third birthday party, where we got to<br>
celebrate this great journey we're on. One of the (many) things that<br>
makes Open Source so cool is the ability to collaborate with our<br>
competitors to make the world a better place, and OpenStack is a<br>
great example of that. A big thank you and congratulations to the<br>
entire OpenStack family.<br>
<br>
If you missed OSCon, come to Flock (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://flocktofedora.org/">http://flocktofedora.org/</a> ),<br>
August 9-12 (this weekend!) in Charleston, South Carolina. Flock is
a<br>
gathering of Fedora developers, and we'll be there talking with some<br>
of the people who make RDO happen. On Saturday, Kashyap Chamarthy<br>
will be leading the OpenStack Test event, in which participants will<br>
set up and test the latest OpenStack packages on Fedora. (Details at<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bit.ly/15KJGFV">http://bit.ly/15KJGFV</a> )<br>
<br>
If you're attending, or hosting, any OpenStack meetups, we'd love to<br>
hear about them and help you get the word out. Drop us a note on the<br>
RDO forum, or send us a tweet.<br>
<br>
<b>Videos</b><br>
<br>
In the last few weeks, we've put a vew videos on YouTube, showing<br>
some simple tasks with OpenStack and RDO. We started with a demo of<br>
TryStack.org, the site where you can take OpenStack for a test run<br>
without having to set it up yourself.<br>
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cVL1NDWWyY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cVL1NDWWyY</a> ). And, more recently,
we<br>
published the video we put together for OSCon, showing an<br>
installation of OpenStack using RDO, all the way through spinning up<br>
a virtual machine and ssh'ing into it. (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/ixJtmQNId1Y">http://youtu.be/ixJtmQNId1Y</a>
)<br>
<br>
In the coming weeks and months, we'll be publishing more of these,<br>
showing you how to do various other tasks with OpenStack. You'll
find<br>
those in our YouTube channel at<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWYIPZ4lm4P3_pzZ9Hx9awg">http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWYIPZ4lm4P3_pzZ9Hx9awg</a><br>
<br>
<b>Networking with RDO</b><b><br>
</b><br>
We've had a lot of discussion in the RDO forum about networking over<br>
the last month. With Neutron support coming to RDO, but not quite<br>
mature yet, some people are having trouble getting networking<br>
running.<br>
<br>
To address this difficulty, we've added a networking resource in the<br>
wiki (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://openstack.redhat.com/Networking">http://openstack.redhat.com/Networking</a> ) where we can share<br>
what works, and what doesn't, to help you get things running<br>
smoothly.<br>
<br>
Also, we've updated the QuickStart instructions<br>
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://openstack.redhat.com/Quickstart">http://openstack.redhat.com/Quickstart</a> ) to disable Neutron<br>
(formerly known as Quantum) networking, so that you can have a
better<br>
first-time experience when installing RDO.<br>
<br>
Remember that you can also generate an answer file, using the<br>
'--gen-answer-file=ANSWER_FILE' argument, edit that file to set your<br>
preferences, and then run packstack using this file as input, using<br>
the '--answer-file=ANSWER_FILE' argument.<br>
<br>
<b>Using Ceph for Block Storage</b><br>
<br>
There's been a lot of interest lately around Ceph (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ceph.com/">http://ceph.com/</a><br>
), the distributed object store and filesystem, and using it with<br>
OpenStack. Our friends at Inktank were kind enough to add some<br>
documentation to the RDO wiki about using Ceph for block storage
with<br>
RDO - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bit.ly/13K3m9G">http://bit.ly/13K3m9G</a><br>
This is a detailed, step-by-step how-to, showing the entire process<br>
of installing RDO, configuring Ceph, and getting the two to talk to<br>
each other.<br>
<br>
<b>Troubleshooting</b><br>
<br>
Because RDO tracks the latest releases of OpenStack, and because of<br>
the inevitable variation in deployment platforms, you may encounter<br>
some problems during deployment. (The Red Hat Entperprise Linux<br>
OpenStack Platform, which trails upstream by a few months, is more<br>
thoroughly hardened and tested.)<br>
<br>
As you're working through these problems, you may wish to have a
look<br>
at the troubleshooting page on our wiki -<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://openstack.redhat.com/Troubleshooting">http://openstack.redhat.com/Troubleshooting</a> - where we're trying to<br>
document common scenarios that people are encountering, and tips for<br>
solving these problems.<br>
<br>
We welcome your participation in this process. If you find the<br>
solution to some problem, please write it up so that everyone can<br>
benefit.<br>
<br>
<b>Other sources</b><br>
<br>
We recently came across this writeup of using RDO to deploy a<br>
multi-node OpenStack cloud: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.cloudbase.it/rdo-multi-node/">http://www.cloudbase.it/rdo-multi-node/</a>
.<br>
It's a very deep dive into how everything fits together, as well as<br>
hands-on configuration tips and examples. This is part one of a<br>
promised series, so we encourage you to check back there.<br>
<br>
If you come across helpful articles that you think will benefit the<br>
entire community, please post them to the RDO forum, or send them<br>
directly to me at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rbowen@redhat.com">rbowen@redhat.com</a><br>
<br>
<b>In closing ...</b><br>
<br>
Thanks again for being part of the RDO community. We'd love to hear<br>
how we can do better. Let us know on the forum<br>
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://openstack.redhat.com/forum/">http://openstack.redhat.com/forum/</a> ), or on Twitter
(@rdocommunity),<br>
or just drop us email at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rbowen@redhat.com">rbowen@redhat.com</a> or on the RDO mailing
list<br>
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://red.ht/12XFRiy">http://red.ht/12XFRiy</a> )<br>
<br>
Until next month ...<br>
<br>
Rich and Dave, for the RDO community
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