[Rdo-newsletter] RDO Community Newsletter - July 2015

Thanks for being part of the RDO community! Quick links: * Quick Start - http://rdoproject.org/quickstart * Mailing Lists - http://rdoproject.org/Mailing_lists * RDO packages - http://rdoproject.org/repos/ * RDO blog - http://rdoproject.org/blog * Q&A - http://ask.openstack.org/ * Open Tickets - http://tm3.org/rdobugs * Twitter - http://twitter.com/rdocommunity Mailing List Update =================== Here's what's been going on in the RDO world since you last heard from me. It's pretty common to want to integrate an OpenStack deployment with your existing external network. The documentation for how to accomplish this has been updated to reflect the current state of OpenStack. That document is at https://www.rdoproject.org/Neutron_with_existing_external_network and we welcome your feedback and corrections to that doc. With the conversation happening in upstream OpenStack about the 'Big Tent' (See more about this idea at http://tm3.org/big-tent), it's worth discussing what this means to RDO. Specifically, what do we want to package in RDO? While the simple answer to this is "whatever the community makes happen", there are other things to consider. You can read this conversation in the archives at https://www.redhat.com/archives/rdo-list/2015-June/msg00044.html and https://www.redhat.com/archives/rdo-list/2015-May/msg00284.html Also, out of this conversation has come a document - still a work in progress - that documents what's in RDO right now. That's at https://www.rdoproject.org/ProjectsInRDO The folks from Trystack gave an update on their plans for the near future. In particular, there was discussion of moving off of Facebook-based authenticaion to openstack.org-based authentication. You can read that conversation at https://www.redhat.com/archives/rdo-list/2015-June/msg00045.html As of this writing, x86.trystack.org is offline due to DC/network issues. You can check in #trystack, on the Freenode IRC network, for updates. Boris Derzhavets did a nice writeup of switching to Spice console in RDO Kilo, which you read at http://tm3.org/spice There was further discussion of this on the list, which you can read at https://www.redhat.com/archives/rdo-list/2015-June/msg00064.html The RDO-Manager team announced that work on HA support had been completed: https://www.redhat.com/archives/rdo-list/2015-June/msg00070.html You can see more about RDO-Manager at https://www.rdoproject.org/RDO-Manager In response to conversations in the upstream about packaging, Mark McLoughlin wrote a blog post discussing his ideas about upstream packaging, and how it would affect the RDO project. That post is at https://blogs.gnome.org/markmc/2015/06/12/rdo-and-upstream-packaging/ and the ensuing discussion may be found at https://www.redhat.com/archives/rdo-list/2015-June/msg00062.html Jakub drew up a diagram to explain the packaging workflow, which you can see at https://www.rdoproject.org/packaging/rdo-packaging.html And there was a little discussion at https://www.redhat.com/archives/rdo-list/2015-June/msg00081.html One of the CentOS Google Summer of Code projects is closely related to RDO. GSoC student Asad asked some questions about how to handle his Cloud In A Box project, and got some good advice. We look forward to seeing his end product. You can read that conversation at https://www.redhat.com/archives/rdo-list/2015-June/msg00090.html And Jakub also posted about the new rdopkg requirements management documentation which you can see at the following places in the packaging doc: * https://www.rdoproject.org/packaging/rdopkg/rdopkg-adv-requirements.7.html * https://www.rdoproject.org/packaging/rdopkg/rdopkg.1.html#_action_query * https://www.rdoproject.org/packaging/rdo-packaging.html#_requirements_man... This discussion may be seen at https://www.redhat.com/archives/rdo-list/2015-June/msg00157.html You can always find the archives at https://www.redhat.com/archives/rdo-list/, or join the list yourself at https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rdo-list Packaging updates ================= Remember that every week there are two IRC meetings on the topic of packaging. The RDO-specific meeting is every Wednesday at 15:00 UTC. And on Thursdays at 15:00 UTC, the CentOS Cloud SIG discusses issues related to the CentOS CI and packaging infrastructure, as well as other cloud projects that are using those resources. We welcome your participation in either (or both!) of these meetings. The meetings from the latest RDO packaging meeting may be found at https://www.redhat.com/archives/rdo-list/2015-June/msg00087.html and the minutes from the latest Cloud SIG meeting are at https://www.redhat.com/archives/rdo-list/2015-June/msg00100.html Meetups and Events ================== Each week we post the upcoming OpenStack meetups to the rdo-list mailing list, and also on the RDO website at http://rdoproject.org/Events If you have events that you'd like for us to help you publicize, please let me know at rbowen(a)redhat.com Last week, RDO had a presence at the Red Hat Summit in Boston, where we gave out hundreds of RDO tshirts and demoed RDO, RDO-Manager, ManageIQ, and various other related things. https://plus.google.com/+RichBowen/posts/6bSD6p3x35G There were several presentations in the Community Theater about RDO, which will be on YouTube very soon. Watch @rdocommunity on Twitter to see them when they're available. In the coming months, RDO will have a presence at several other events: * OSCon in Portland - July 20-24 - http://www.oscon.com/open-source-2015 * LinuxCon in Seattle - August 17-19 - http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-north-america * LinuxCon in Dublin - October 5-7 - http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-europe * OpenStack Summit in Tokyo - October 27-30 - https://www.openstack.org/summit/tokyo-2015/ If you're going to be at any of these events, please drop by and see us. Keep in touch ============= There's lots of ways to stay in in touch with what's going on in the RDO community. The best ways are ... WWW * RDO - http://rdoproject.org/ * OpenStack Q&A - http://ask.openstack.org/ Mailing Lists: * rdo-list mailing list - http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rdo-list * This newsletter - http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rdo-newsletter IRC * IRC - #rdo on Freenode.irc.net * Puppet module development - #rdo-puppet Social Media: * Follow us on Twitter - http://twitter.com/rdocommunity * Google+ - http://tm3.org/rdogplus * Facebook - http://facebook.com/rdocommunity Thanks again for being part of the RDO community! -- Rich Bowen - rbowen(a)redhat.com OpenStack Community Liaison http://rdoproject.org/