Here's what RDO enthusiasts have been writing about over the past week. If you're writing about RDO, or about OpenStack on CentOS, Fedora or RHEL, and you're not on my list, please let me know! How Red Hat’s OpenStack partner Networking Solutions Offer Choice and Performance, by Jonathan Gershater Successfully implementing an OpenStack cloud is more than just choosing an OpenStack distribution. With its community approach and rich ecosystem of vendors, OpenStack represents a viable option for cloud administrators who want to offer public-cloud-like infrastructure services in their own datacenter. Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform offers pluggable storage and networking options. This open approach is contrary to closed solutions such as VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO) which only supports VMware NSX for L4-L7 networking or VMware Distributed switch for basic L2 networking ... read more at http://tm3.org/27 Analyzing awareness of MidoNet globally, by Sandro Mathys One thing that is hard to measure in open source projects is just how aware people are of your community or its software. It's even harder to find out where in the world people have heard about you so far. You might have a rough feeling, probably based on some facts like the country-specific TLDs of email addresses on your mailing lists. But that's very vague and only includes people actively participating (and there's more and less vocal people, too). ... read more at http://tm3.org/28 Kyle Mestery and the future of Neutron, by Rich Bowen At LinuxCon two weeks ago I had the privilege of chatting with Kyle about the future of Neutron. Kyle was a delight to interview, because he's obviously so passionate about his project . ... read (and listen) at http://tm3.org/29 RDO Juno DVR Deployment (Controller/Network)+Compute+Compute (ML2&OVS&VXLAN) on CentOS 7.1 by Boris Derzhavets Neutron DVR implements the fip-namespace on every Compute Node where the VMs are running. Thus VMs with FloatingIPs can forward the traffic to the External Network without routing it via Network Node. (North-South Routing). ... read more at http://tm3.org/2a Managing OpenStack: Integration Matters! by Matt Hicks With so many advantages an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud provides businesses, it’s great to see a transformation of IT happening across nearly all industries and markets. Nearly every enterprise is taking advantage of an “as-a-service” cloud in some form or another. And with this new infrastructure, it’s now more important than ever to remember the critical role that management plays within this mix. Oddly enough, it is sometimes considered a second priority when customers begin investigating the benefits of an IaaS cloud, but quickly becomes your first priority when running one. ... read more at http://tm3.org/2b -- Rich Bowen - rbowen(a)redhat.com OpenStack Community Liaison http://rdoproject.org/