Here's yet more great blog posts over the last few weeks from the RDO community" Videos from the CentOS Dojo, Brussels, 2017 by Rich Bowen Last Friday in Brussels, CentOS enthusiasts gathered for the annual CentOS Dojo, right before FOSDEM. Read more at http://tm3.org/dp FOSDEM Day 0 - CentOS Dojo by Rich Bowen FOSDEM starts tomorrow in Brussels, but there's always a number of events the day before. Read more at http://tm3.org/dq Gnocchi 3.1 unleashed by Julien Danjou It's always difficult to know when to release, and we really wanted to do it earlier. But it seems that each week more awesome work was being done in Gnocchi, so we kept delaying it while having no pressure to push it out. Read more at http://tm3.org/dr Testing RDO with Tempest: new features in Ocata by ltoscano The release of Ocata, with its shorter release cycle, is close and it is time to start a broader testing (even if one could argue that it is always time for testing!). Read more at http://tm3.org/ds Barely Functional Keystone Deployment with Docker by Adam Young My eventual goal is to deploy Keystone using Kubernetes. However, I want to understand things from the lowest level on up. Since Kubernetes will be driving Docker for my deployment, I wanted to get things working for a single node Docker deployment before I move on to Kubernetes. As such, you’ll notice I took a few short cuts. Mostly, these involve configuration changes. Since I will need to use Kubernetes for deployment and configuration, I’ll postpone doing it right until I get to that layer. With that caveat, let’s begin. Read more at http://tm3.org/dt RDO at FOSDEM this week by Rich Bowen This week, RDO will have a presence at the FOSDEM conference, in Brussels, Belgium. Read more at http://tm3.org/du Standalone Cinder: The definitive SDS by geguileo Are you looking for the best Software Defined Storage in the market? Look no further, Standalone Cinder is here! Let’s have an overview of the Standalone Cinder service, see some specific configurations, and find out how to make requests with no other OpenStack service is deployed. Cinder Until not so long ago Cinder was always […] Read more at http://tm3.org/dh ANNOUNCE: new libvirt console proxy project by Daniel Berrange This post is to announce the existence of a new small project to provide a websockets proxy explicitly targeting virtual machines serial consoles and SPICE/VNC graphical displays. Read more at http://tm3.org/di OpenStack and services for BigData applications by Carlos Camacho Yesterday I had the opportunity of presenting together with Daniel Mellado a brief talk about OpenStack and it’s integration with services to support Big Data tools (OpenStack Sahara). Read more at http://tm3.org/dj OpenStack Use Cases – New Analyst Papers and Webinar Now Available by Peter Pawelski, Product Marketing Manager, Red Hat OpenStack Platform As the OpenStack market continues to mature, some organizations have made the move and put OpenStack projects into production. They have done this in a variety of ways for a variety of reasons. However, other organizations have waited to see what these first-movers are doing with it and whether or not they are successful before exploring for themselves. Read more at http://tm3.org/dk We'll be at DevConf this weekend! by Rich Bowen Come see us this weekend at DevConf.cz,in Brno, Czechia. Like last year, we'll be just inside the entrance, with stickers, command-line cheat sheets, RDO tshirts, and people to answer all of your RDO and OpenStack questions. Read more at http://tm3.org/dl What are Clouds? by Zane Bitter Like many in the community, I am often called upon to explain what OpenStack is to somebody completely unfamiliar with it. Usually this goes one of two ways: they turn out to be familiar enough with cloud computing to quickly grasp it by analogy, or their eyes glaze over at the mention of the words ‘cloud computing’ and no further explanation is sought or offered. When faced with someone who is persistently curious but not an industry insider, you immediately know you’re in trouble. Read more at http://tm3.org/dm Update on TripleO with already provisioned servers by slagle In a previous post, I talked about using TripleO with already deployed and provisioned servers. Since that was published, TripleO has made a lot of progress in this area. I figured it was about time for an update on where the project is with this feature. Read more at http://tm3.org/do -- Rich Bowen - rbowen(a)redhat.com RDO Community Liaison http://rdoproject.org @RDOCommunity