[Rdo-list] RDO blog roundup, week of September 21

[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!


Red Hat Confirms Speaking Sessions at OpenStack Summit Tokyo by Jeff Jameson

As this Fall’s OpenStack Summit in Tokyo approaches, the Foundation has 
posted the session agenda, outlining the final schedule of events. I am 
happy to report that Red Hat has 15 sessions that will be included in 
the weeks agenda, along with a few more as waiting alternates. With the 
limited space and shortened event this time around, I am please to see 
that Red Hat continues to remain in sync with the current topics, 
projects, and technologies the OpenStack community and customers are 
most interested in.
... read more at http://tm3.org/2g


Driving in the Fast Lane: Huge Page support in OpenStack Compute by 
Steve Gordon

In a previous “Driving in the Fast Lane” blog post we focused on 
optimization of instance CPU resources. This time around let’s take a 
dive into the handling of system memory, and more specifically 
configurable page sizes. We will reuse the environment from the previous 
post, but add huge page support to our performance flavor.
... read more at http://tm3.org/2h


Reviewing Puppet OpenStack patches by Emilien Macchi

Reviewing code takes to me 20% of my work. It’s a lot of time, but not 
too much when you look at OpenStack velocity. To be efficient, you need 
to understand how review process works and have the right tools in hand.
... read more at http://tm3.org/2i


Horizon Performance Optimizations by Silver Sky

ome notes on Open Stack Horizon Performance optimizations on CentOS 7.1 
install: 4 vCPU (2.3 GHz Intel Xeon E5 v3), 2 GB – 4 GB RAM, SSD backed 
40 GB RAW image.
... read more at http://tm3.org/2j


Python 3 Status in OpenStack Liberty by Victor Stinner

The Python 3 support in OpenStack Liberty made huge visible progress. 
Blocking libraries have been ported. Six OpenStack applications are now 
compatible with Python3: Aodh, Ceilometer, Gnocchi, Ironic, Rally and 
Sahara. Thanks to voting python34 check jobs, the Python 3 support can 
only increase, Python 2 only code cannot be reintroduced by mistake in 
tested code.
... read more at http://tm3.org/2k


Analyzing the performance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 
using Rally by Roger Lopez and Joe Talerico

In our recent blog post, we’ve discussed the steps involved in 
determining the performance and scalability of a Red Hat Enterprise 
Linux OpenStack Platform environment. To recap, we’ve recommended the 
following:
... read more at http://tm3.org/2l



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