Distro News
2012.1.1 stable release
Mark McLoughlin pushed out stable tree (Essex) 2012.1.1 releases. You can drill down to the bugs and security fixes included there. All Essex packages were updated accordingly in Fedora 17 and EPEL 6
sosreport integration
Gary Kotton wrote an OpenStack plugin for sosreport to help in getting diagnostics for an OpenStack installation.
augeas integration
Dan Prince wrote a python-paste Augeas lense which allowing Augeas to manage nova and glance paste configs
Upstream News
OpenStack Grizzly
OpenStack G release is to be called "Grizzly" with the Grizzly design summit being held in San Diego, CA, October 15-19.
folsom milestone 2 released
The folsom-2 development milestone was released on July 5th, and you can drill down there to the bugs and blueprints targetted.
Bug Squashing day
Following the last very successful Bug Squashing day another is scheduled for Thursday July 12th
Red Hat contributions
Dan Prince is working on multi-tenant support for the Glance swift store
There is too much to track in detail the OpenStack upstream activity of Red Hat developers, but here is a link showing the latest Red Hat OpenStack upstream development
Red Hat summit
- Russell Bryant co-presented about OpenShift on OpenStack
- Derek Higgins and Russell Bryant led the successful OpenStack lab session
- Mark McLoughlin presented on OpenStack Architecture & Developer Introduction
- Vin Sharma presented on designing a Trusted Cloud with OpenStack
- Perry Myers presented on Introduction & Overview of OpenStack for IaaS Clouds
- Brian Stevens talked about OpenStack
- A related article on details of Red Hat's plans for OpenStack
Community engagement
OpenStack community meetup, Boston
Bob Kukura spoke about "Preparing OpenStack Quantum for the Data Center" at an OpenStack community meetup in Boston on June 21st
SouthEast LinuxFest, Charlotte, NC
Russell Bryant spoke about OpenStack on Fedora at the SouthEast LinuxFest
EuroPython, Florence, Italy
Pádraig Brady presented on OpenStack Overview - Operational details of a large python project
OSCON, Portland, OR
There are a large number of OpenStack talks at OSCON 2012 in July
OpenStack community meetup, Boston
Adam Young will talk about Openstack Keystone at an OpenStack community meetup in Boston on July 24th
OpenStack community meetup, London
Daniel Berrange will talk about libvirt usage wrt Nova + KVM/LXC at an OpenStack community meetup in London on July 25th
Related projects
OpenShift
Krishna Raman compiled instructions for setting up the OpenShift PaaS on OpenStack IaaS
cloud-init
cloud-init for RHEL (derivatives) was released and has received successful testing. Also progressing in parallel is a significant cloud-init rework (374 commits as of 27 June) focusing on Red Hat consumability.
heat API
Heat V4 was released and preparations are being made for OpenStack incubation