[Rdo-list] RDO bloggers, week of August 17th

[Rich Bowen]

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!


Flavio Percoco, PTL of the Zaqar project by Rich Bowen

Zaqar (formerly called Marconi) is the messaging service in OpenStack. I 
recently had an opportunity to interview Flavio Percoco, who is the PTL 
(Project Technical Lead) of that project, about what’s new in Kilo, and 
what’s coming in Liberty.
... read more at http://tm3.org/1x


Tokenless Keystone by Adam Young

Keystone Tokens are bearer tokens, and bearer tokens are vulnerable to 
replay attacks. What if we wanted to get rid of them?
... read more at http://tm3.org/1y

Upgrades are dying, don’t die with them, by Maxime Payant-Chartier

We live in a world that has changed the way it consumes applications. 
The last few years have seen a rapid rise in the adoption of 
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). Much of 
this can be attributed to the broad success of Amazon Web Services 
(AWS), which is said to have grown revenue from $3.1B to $5B last year 
(Forbes). More and more people, enterprise customers included, are 
consuming applications and resources that require little to no 
maintenance. And any maintenance that does happen, now goes unnoticed by 
users. This leaves traditional software vendors contending to find a way 
to adapt their distribution models to make their software easier to 
consume. Lengthy, painful upgrades are no longer acceptable to users, 
forcing vendors to create a solution to this problem.
... read more at http://tm3.org/1z


The OpenStack Big Tent, by Rich Bowen

OpenStack is big and complicated. It’s composed of many moving parts, 
and it can be somewhat intimidating to figure out what all the bits do, 
what’s required, what’s optional, and how to put all the bits together.
... read more at http://tm3.org/1-


Provider external networks (in an appropriate amount of detail) by Lars 
Kellogg-Stedman

In Quantum in Too Much Detail, I discussed the architecture of a Neutron 
deployment in detail. Since that article was published, Neutron gained 
the ability to handle multiple external networks with a single L3 agent. 
While I wrote about that back in 2014, I covered the configuration side 
of it in much more detail than I discussed the underlying network 
architecture. This post addresses the architecture side.
... read more at http://tm3.org/20


Logging configuration in OpenContrail by Numan Siddique

We know that all software components and services generate log files. 
These log files are vital in troubleshooting and debugging problems. If 
the log files are not managed properly then it can be extremely 
difficult to get a good look into them.
... read more at http://tm3.org/21


Neutron in-tree integration tests by Assaf Muller

It’s time for OpenStack projects to take ownership of their quality. 
Introducing in-tree, whitebox multinode simulated integration testing. A 
lot of work went in over the last few months by a lot of people to make 
it happen.
... read more at http://tm3.org/22


Dims talks about the Oslo project, by Rich Bowen

This is the second in what I hope is a long-running series of interviews 
with the various OpenStack PTLs (Project Technical Leads), in an effort 
to better understand what the various projects do, what's new in the 
Kilo release, and what we can expect in Liberty, and beyond.
... read (and listen) more at http://tm3.org/23


Performance and Scaling your Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 
Cloud by Joe Talerico

As OpenStack continues to grow into a mainstream 
Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform, the industry seeks to learn 
more about its performance and scalability for use in production 
environments. As recently captured in this blog, common questions that 
typically arise are: “Is my hardware vendor working with my software 
vendor?”, “How much hardware would I actually need?”, and “What are the 
best practices for scaling out my OpenStack environment?”
... read more at http://tm3.org/24

-- 
Rich Bowen - rbowen at redhat.com
OpenStack Community Liaison
http://rdoproject.org/