Author: Nicole Martinelli
Source: Planet OpenStack

Built an App on OpenStack at QCon NY 2015

Developers building apps on top of OpenStack get more tutorials to play with. Everett Toews published abstract, slides and code from his talk at QCon in New York on how to get started building and deploying an application on OpenStack.

OpenStack Networking with Neutron: What Plugin Should I Deploy?

Nir Yechiel published a summary of the talk he gave at OpenStack Israel event on June 15th: what is a Neutron plugin, what plugins are available and how to choose one.

OpenStack’s Volume Backup Status

When working in the Cloud the idea of doing backups like in the old days may seen counter intuitive. After all, the main reasons for having backups are recovering data after it’s lost, by deletion or corruption, and recovering it from an earlier time, and you have those covered with fast volume snapshots and the use of fault tolerant back-ends like Ceph, that replicate data, for your volumes. So, why would you still need old school backups? Find out on Gorka Eguileor‘s post.

The Road to Tokyo

• Interested in being a Tokyo Summit Sponsor?
• Accepting presentation submissions until July 15th, 2015, 11:59 pm PDT

Reports from Previous Events

• Another Iran OpenStack Meetup

Relevant Conversations

• Standing on the shoulders of giants – Linux Bridge testing at the gate
• [Fuel] Improvement of the blueprint specs template

Deadlines and Contributors Notifications

• Nova’s Liberty Priorties Merged
• Liberty Process, Deadlines and Dates for Nova
• Getting rid of suds, which is unmaintained, and which we want out of Debian
• [puppet] preparing Kilo release (6.0.0)
• Neutron micro-versioning update

Security Advisories and Notices

• [OSSA 2015-011.1] Cinder host file disclosure through qcow2 backing file (CVE-2015-1851)

Tips ‘n Tricks

• By Steve Martinelli: Use WebSphere Liberty as an OpenID Connect Provider for OpenStack
• By Julien Danjou: Timezones and Python
• By Aurélien Maury: 5 minutes stacks episode one: LAMP, episode two : WordPress, episode three : MEAN

Open Call for Proposals

• OpenStack Summit Tokyo, open until July 15

Recently Merged Specs

Subject	Owner	Project
Track cinder capacity notifications	XinXiaohui	openstack/ceilometer-specs
Improve Install Guide Liberty RST spec	Andreas Jaeger	openstack/docs-specs
Add side-by-side comparison of v2 and v3 APIs	Diane Fleming	openstack/keystone-specs
[EDP] Allow editing job binaries	Trevor McKay	openstack/sahara-specs
[EDP] Allow editing datasource objects	Trevor McKay	openstack/sahara-specs
Minor grammar cleanup of enroll-node-state	John L. Villalovos	openstack/ironic-specs
libvirt: rename ‘parallels’ virt_type to ‘vz’	Maxim Nestratov	openstack/nova-specs
Updates designate spec Domain properties	Kanagaraj Manickam	openstack/heat-specs
Add unit tests for Trove specs	Nikhil Manchanda	openstack/trove-specs
Service group spec re-proposed from kilo-backlog to liberty	badveli_vishnuus	openstack/neutron-specs
Add support for external resources	Angus Salkeld	openstack/heat-specs
Spec to remove the pipeline from the api server	Chris Dent	openstack/ceilometer-specs
service: Adds Windows Oslo Service Workers spec	Claudiu Belu	openstack/oslo-specs
Nested Quota Driver	Vilobh Meshram	openstack/cinder-specs
Symlinks in Swift	Samuel Merritt	openstack/swift-specs
Add “enroll” state to the state machine	Dmitry Tantsur	openstack/ironic-specs
Conditionally expose resources based on roles	Pavlo Shchelokovskyy	openstack/heat-specs
Conditionally expose resources based on services	Pavlo Shchelokovskyy	openstack/heat-specs
Add blueprint for tempest cli improvements	David Paterson	openstack/qa-specs
Dynamic pipeline configuration using file reloading	Rohit Jaiswal	openstack/ceilometer-specs
Sort instances if possible inside an host aggregate	Jean-Daniel Bonnetot	openstack/nova-specs
Move rearrange-schemas spec to implemented	Ghanshyam Mann	openstack/qa-specs
Spec for using a aggregation pipeline in MongoDB	Ilya Tyaptin	openstack/ceilometer-specs
Correct resource name for consolidate console API	Alex Xu	openstack/nova-specs
Hyper-V: Add storage QoS support	Petrut Lucian	openstack/nova-specs

Upcoming Events

• Jun 19, 2015 OpenStack PDX Meetup
• Jun 19, 2015 SFBay OpenStack Hackathon #OSSFO Topic: Monasca and Heat
• Jun 24, 2015 Halifax Open Cloud Meetup Halifax, NS, CA
• Jun 25, 2015 OpenStack L.A. Meetup Pasadena, CA, US
• Jun 25, 2015 Continuous Integration w OpenStack Sunnyvale, California, US
• Jun 26, 2015 Discuss and Learn about OpenStack
• Jun 26, 2015 Open Stack Monthly Meetup
• Jun 26, 2015 OpenStack Seattle Meetup: Sponsored by HP Seattle, WA, US
• Jun 26, 2015 SFBay OpenStack Hackathon #OSSFO
• Jun 26 – 27, 2015 Hong Kong Open Source Conference Hong Kong, Hong Kong, HK
• Jul 01 – 02, 2015 July OpenStack Meetup – NFV Engineering & Planning on OpenStack presentation
• Jul 01, 2015 OpenStack 5th birthday party
• Jul 02, 2015 Exploring OpenStack Conference London, England, GB
• Jul 09, 2015 OpenStack Monitoring Lessons Sunnyvale, California, US
• Jul 7, 2015 July Sydney Meetup – OpenStack 5th Birthday, Sydney, Australia
• Jul 15, 2015 Tales from the Trenches’ & OpenStack 5th Birthday Sydney, Australia
• Jul 16, 2015 Newbie OpenStack Contribution & 5th Birthday Celebration, Melbourne, Australia
• Jul 17 – 18, 2015 OpenStack Thailand 2015 Bangkok, TH
• Jul 20 – 24, 2015 OSCON 2015 Portland, OR, US
• Jul 30 – 31, 2015 DCD INTERNET San Francisco, CA, US
• Aug 10 – 13, 2015 Gartner Catalyst Conference San Diego, CA, US
• Aug 11, 2015 OpenStack Day Taiwan 2015 Taipei, TW
• Aug 13 – 14, 2015 OpenStack Collective Austin, TX, US
• Aug 20, 2015 OpenStack Day Seattle 2015 Seattle, WA, US
• Aug 25, 2015 OpenStack Trove Day 2015 San Jose, CA, US
• Aug 26 – 27, 2015 OpenStack Silicon Valley Mountain View, California, US
• Aug 27, 2015 OpenStack Nova Deep Dive Meetup Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, RO
• Sep 19, 2015 OpenStack Benelux Conference 2015 Amersfoort, NL
• Sep 21 – 24, 2015 Storage Developer Conference Santa Clara, CA, CA, US

Other News

• Why LivePerson goes hand-in-hand with OpenStack
• Deustche Telekom and TDBank kick off OpenStack Day Israel
• How OpenStack keeps Nike running smoothly
• Highlights from the OpenStack User Survey in Spring 2015
• RDO and CentOS
• taskflow release 0.11.0 (liberty)
• python-openstackclient release 1.5.0 (liberty)
• oslo.service release 0.1.0 (liberty)
• keystonemiddleware release 2.0.0 (liberty)
• openstack-doc-tools release 0.29.0 (liberty)
• python-ironic-inspector-client release 1.0.1
• [puppet] New Juno (5.1.0) release  

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