[rdo-users] [newsletter] May 2020 RDO Community Newsletter

Rain Leander rleander at redhat.com
Thu May 14 08:57:56 UTC 2020 

Having difficulty with the format of this message? See it online at
http://rdoproject.org/newsletter/2020/may/
--

Is it time for an upgrade? The definition of DONE! OpenStack Foundation
announces the 21st version of the most widely deployed open source cloud
infrastructure software! And we send off our OpenStack Community Liaison
with love. Welcome to RDO Project's May 2020 Newsletter.
Housekeeping ItemsAll Your Repos Are Belong To Us

Ocata and Pike are in the Extended Maintenance Phase
<https://releases.openstack.org/> for more than a year now, The promotion
jobs <https://review.rdoproject.org/r/#/q/topic:remove_pike> used to test
these repos were dropped long ago
<http://rdoproject.org/newsletter/2020/may/>
https://review.rdoproject.org/r/#/c/16485/. Now we are planning to drop the
Okata <http://trunk.rdoproject.org/centos7-ocata/> and Pike
<http://trunk.rdoproject.org/centos7-pike/> trunk repos by the first week
of June 2020. We have already stopped building new commits
<https://softwarefactory-project.io/r/#/c/18347/> for both repos.

If anyone is still using these repos, please consider an upgrade to queens
or any later releases. If something is blocking you from an upgrade or
migration away from ocata or pike, please respond to this email thread
<https://lists.rdoproject.org/pipermail/dev/2020-May/009380.html> so we may
consider it before June.
RDO ChangesWhat’s Done is Done

For the past few releases, we’ve been waiting until the trailing projects
TripleO <https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/TripleO> and Kolla
<https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Kolla> were completed and published before
sending out the official Release Announcement. Once upon a time, we
officially posted the technical definition of done
<https://blogs.rdoproject.org/2016/05/technical-definition-of-done/> for
the Mitaka release and we’ve decided in the RDO Community meeting yesterday
to officially incorporate a ‘definition of done’ for each release cycle in
the future starting with Ussuri <https://docs.openstack.org/ussuri/>.

To that end, the RDO Project agrees that before announcing a new release to
the community formally, the following specific criteria must be confirmed
within the CloudSIG builds:

   - The three packstack all-in-one upstream scenarios can be executed
   successfully.
   - The four puppet-openstack-integration scenarios can be executed
   successfully.
   - TripleO container images can be built.
   - TripleO standalone scenario001 can be deployed with the containers
   from CloudSIG builds.

This also needs to be completed before the next major event following the
OpenStack release. In the case of Ussuri, since announcements cannot happen
on a Friday, Saturday, or Sunday, the announcement will happen no later
than Thursday, 28 May because the virtual PTG is 01-05 June. This criteria
has been agreed for Ussuri GA and may be updated for next releases. If you
would like to contribute, comment or commend this change, please feel free
to join us on Wednesdays at 14:00 UTC for the weekly *RDO community meeting*
 on Freenode IRC channel #RDO.
Community NewsWe Wish You All The Best

RDO Project’s OpenStack Community Liaison, Rain Leander, is leaving Red Hat
and the RDO Project as a technical community manager. In their own words,
“this is not actually a good bye. ASIDE: I’m terrible at goodbyes. This is
“I’ll See You Around”. Because the next chapter is within open source.
Within cloud computing. Within edge. And while I absolutely cannot wait to
tell you about it, this is not the time for looking forward, but for
looking back. This is a time for celebrating the past. For thanking my
beautiful collaboraters. Maybe for shedding a tear or two. Definitely for
expressing those difficult emotions. I love you, RDO Project. Thank you.
And I'll see you around.”
Community Meetings

Every Tuesday at 13:30 UTC, we have a weekly *TripleO CI community meeting*
on https://meet.google.com/bqx-xwht-wky with the agenda on
https://hackmd.io/IhMCTNMBSF6xtqiEd9Z0Kw. The TripleO CI meeting focuses on
a group of people focusing on Continuous Integration tooling and system who
would like to provide a comprehensive testing framework that is easily
reproducible for TripleO contributors. This framework should also be
consumable by other CI systems (OPNFV, RDO, vendor CI, etc.), so that
TripleO can be tested the same way everywhere. This is NOT a place for
TripleO usage questions, rather, check out the next meeting listed just
below.

Every Tuesday at 14:00 UTC, immediately following the TripleO CI meeting is
the weekly *TripleO Community meeting* on the #TripleO channel on Freenode
IRC. The agenda for this meeting is posted each week in a public etherpad
<https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/tripleo-meeting-items>. This is for
addressing anything to do with TripleO, including usage, feature requests,
and bug reports.

Every Wednesday at 14:00 UTC, we have a weekly *RDO community meeting* on
the #RDO channel on Freenode IRC. The agenda for this meeting is posted
each week in a public etherpad
<https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/RDO-Meeting> and the minutes from the
meeting are posted on the RDO website
<https://www.rdoproject.org/community/community-meeting/>. If there's
something you'd like to see happen in RDO - a package that is missing, a
tool that you'd like to see included, or a change in how things are
governed - this is the best time and place to help make that happen.

Every Thursday at 15:00 UTC, there is a weekly *CentOS Cloud SIG meeting* on
the #centos-devel channel on Freenode IRC. The agenda for this meeting is
posted each week in a public etherpad
<https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/centos-cloud-sig> and the minutes from
the meeting are posted on the RDO website
<https://www.rdoproject.org/contribute/cloud-sig-meeting/>. This meeting
makes sense for people that are involved in packaging OpenStack for CentOS
and for people that are packaging OTHER cloud infra things (OpenNebula,
CloudStack, Euca, etc) for CentOS. “Alone we can do so little; together we
can do so much.” - Helen Keller
OpenStack NewsOpenStack Ussuri Release Delivers Automation for Intelligent
Open Infrastructure

*AUSTIN, Texas - May 13, 2020* The OpenStack community today released Ussuri
<https://www.openstack.org/software/ussuri/>, the 21st version of the most
widely deployed open source cloud infrastructure software. The release
delivers advancements in three core areas:

   - Ongoing improvements to the reliability of the core infrastructure
   layer
   - Enhancements to security and encryption capabilities
   - Extended versatility to deliver support for new and emerging use cases

These improvements were designed and delivered by a global community of
upstream developers and operators. OpenStack software now powers more than
75 public cloud data centers and thousands of private clouds at a scale of
more than 10 million compute cores. OpenStack is the one infrastructure
platform uniquely suited to deployments of diverse architectures—bare
metal, virtual machines (VMs), graphics processing units (GPUs) and
containers.

For the Ussuri release, OpenStack received over 24,000 code changes by
1,003 developers from 188 different organizations and over 50 countries.
OpenStack is supported by a large, global open source community and is one
of the top three open source projects in the world in terms of active
contributions, along with the Linux kernel and Chromium.

Learn more about the 21st release of this open source cloud software
platform at
https://www.openstack.org/news/view/453/openstack-ussuri-release-lands-today-delivering-automation-for-intelligent-open-infrastructure
Recent and Upcoming EventsVirtual Project Teams Gathering

The June Project Teams Gathering is going virtual since it is critical to
producing the next release. The virtual event will be held from Monday,
June 1 to Friday, June 5.

The event is open to all OSF projects, and teams are currently signing up
for their time slots. Find participating teams below, and the schedule will
be posted in the upcoming weeks.

Registration is now open! <https://virtualptgjune2020.eventbrite.com/>

Participating Teams include Airship, Automation SIG, Cinder, Edge Computing
Group, First Contact SIG, Interop WG, Ironic, Glance, Heat, Horizon, Kata
Containers, Kolla, Manila, Monasca, Multi-Arch SIG, Neutron, Nova, Octavia,
OpenDev, OpenStackAnsible, OpenStackAnsibleModules, OpenStack-Helm, Oslo,
QA, Scientific SIG, Security SIG, Tacker, and TripleO!

Continue to check https://www.openstack.org/ptg/ for event updates and if
you have any questions, please email ptg at openstack.org.
OpenDev: Three Part Virtual Event Series

OpenDev events bring together the developers and users of the open source
software powering today's infrastructure, to share best practices, identify
gaps, and advance the state of the art in open infrastructure. OpenDev
events focused on Edge Computing
<https://superuser.openstack.org/articles/report-cloud-edge-computing/> in
2017 and CI/CD in 2018. In 2020, OpenDev is a virtual series of three
separate events, each covering a different open infrastructure topic.
Participants can expect discussion oriented, collaborative sessions
exploring challenges, sharing common architectures, and collaborating
around potential solutions.

*Event #1: Large Scale Usage of Open Infrastructure* *June 29 - July 1,
2020*

Operating open infrastructure at scale presents common challenges and
constraints. During this event, users will share case studies and
architectures, discuss problem areas impacting their environments, and
collaborate around open source requirements directly with upstream
developers.

Topics include:

   - Scaling user stories with the goal of pushing back cluster scaling
   limits
   - Upgrades
   - Centralized compute vs distributed compute for NFV and edge computing
   use case
   - User Stories - challenges based on size of the deployment

Register at
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/opendev-large-scale-usage-of-open-infrastructure-software-registration-102899719832

*Event #2: Hardware Automation topics* *July 20 - 22, 2020*

>From hardware acceleration to running applications directly on bare metal,
hardware automation enables organizations to save resources and increase
productivity. During this OpenDev event, operators will discuss hardware
limitations for cloud provisioning, share networking challenges, and
collaborate on open source requirements directly with upstream developers.

Topics include:

   - End-to-end hardware provisioning lifecycle for bare metal / cradle to
   grave for hypervisors
   - Networking
   - Consuming bare metal infrastructure to provision cloud based workloads

Register at
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/opendev-hardware-automation-registration-104569991660

*Event #3: Containers in Production topics* *August 10 - 12, 2020*

Whether you want to run containerized applications on bare metal or VMs,
organizations are developing architectures for a variety of workloads.
During this event, users will discuss the infrastructure requirements to
support containers, share challenges from their production environments,
and collaborate on open source requirements directly with upstream
developers.

Topics include:

   - Using OpenStack and containers together
   - Security and Isolation
   - Telco and Network Functions
   - Bare metal and containers
   - Acceleration and optimization

Register at
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/opendev-containers-in-production-registration-105020424918
Other Events

Other RDO events, including the many OpenStack meetups around the world,
are always listed on the RDO events page <http://rdoproject.org/events>. If
you have an RDO-related event, please feel free to add it by submitting a
pull request on Github
<https://github.com/OSAS/rh-events/blob/master/2018/RDO-Meetups.yml>.
Keep in Touch

There are 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

   - Dev List <https://lists.rdoproject.org/mailman/listinfo/dev>
   - Users List <https://lists.rdoproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users>
   - This newsletter
   <https://lists.rdoproject.org/mailman/listinfo/newsletter>
   - CentOS Cloud SIG List
   <https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel>
   - OpenShift on OpenStack SIG List
   <https://commons.openshift.org/sig/OpenshiftOpenstack.html>

IRC on Freenode.irc.net

   - RDO Project #rdo
   - TripleO #tripleo
   - CentOS Cloud SIG #centos-devel

Social Media

   - Twitter <http://twitter.com/rdocommunity>
   - Facebook <http://facebook.com/rdocommunity>
   - Youtube <https://www.youtube.com/RDOcommunity>

As always, thanks for being part of the RDO community!

-- 
K Rain Leander
OpenStack Community Liaison
Open Source Program Office
https://www.rdoproject.org/
http://community.redhat.com
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.rdoproject.org/pipermail/users/attachments/20200514/3d4b8358/attachment-0001.html>
-------------- next part --------------
_______________________________________________
newsletter mailing list
newsletter at lists.rdoproject.org
http://lists.rdoproject.org/mailman/listinfo/newsletter

To unsubscribe: newsletter-unsubscribe at lists.rdoproject.org

More information about the users mailing list