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Inside open infrastructure: The latest from the OpenStack Foundation

This month’s OSF newsletter features the Certified OpenStack Administrator (COA) exam, projects update, upcoming events and more.

February 27, 2020
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The updated OpenStack Certified OpenStack Administrator (COA) exam became available in October 2019, and we have seen a resurgence in interest by both the global community and our training partners. Thousands of Stackers have demonstrated their skills and proven their expertise, helping organizations identify top talent in the industry. The COA exam remains a critical and respected certification for anyone working on OpenStack.

New to OpenStack? Has your certification expired? Do you want to prove your OpenStack skills? Take a look at the OpenStack Docs, then head over to the OpenStack Training Marketplace and find one of our qualified Training Partners. They will help guide you through all of the critical pieces you need to succeed in taking the COA. The current exam is based on OpenStack Rocky and this is an opportunity to not only get a certification, but also get familiar with one of the more recent OpenStack releases.

The exam itself covers all of the core compute, storage, image, and networking services necessary to run OpenStack. To kickstart your preparation for the COA exam, we are offering a 20% discount when you purchase through the OpenStack website. Use code COARECERT2020 through February 29, 2020.

Once you’ve completed the exam, it’s time to get involved with the OpenStack Community:

  • Go to openstack.org/community to learn how you can be a part of the community through code contribution, user groups, or even becoming a mentor for new users.
  • Meet other community members at one of our upcoming events. OpenDev+PTG in Vancouver and the Open Infrastructure Summit in Berlin provide an opportunity to share thoughts about the software, swap war stories, and generally get to know folks working on OpenStack.

The OpenStack Foundation would like to thank Mirantis for administering the exam and the dozens of global training partners who are supporting the next wave of OpenStack talent.

OpenStack Foundation (OSF)

Airship: Elevate your infrastructure

  • Congrats to the newest members of the Airship Technical and Working Committees, Andrew Leasck (TC) and Ian Pittwood (WC)!
  • Airship Blog Series 6 – Armada Growing Pains is out! Armada provides a way to synchronize a Helm (Tiller) target with an operator’s intended state, consisting of several charts, dependencies, tests, and overrides using a single file or directory with a collection of Armada declarations. This allows operators to define many charts, potentially with different namespaces for those releases, and their overrides in a central place. With a single command, they can deploy and/or upgrade all of them where applicable.
  • Catch up on the latest Airship news, including 2.0 plans on the blog.

Kata Containers: The speed of containers, the security of VMs

OpenStack: Open source software for creating private and public clouds

  • Brian Rosmaita reported an issue that, in rare conditions, may cause data loss in Cinder volumes for the OpenStack Train release. Train deployments are advised to deploy the described workaround to avoid any issue.
  • The project teams have just passed the ussuri-2 milestone, in preparation for a final Ussuri release on May 13. Please read this release countdown email from Sean McGinnis for information on upcoming release cycle deadlines!
  • Every cycle, our community sets common goals for the next OpenStack release. Ghanshyam Mann just started the process for the Victoria development cycle, which will start after Ussuri is released in May. We are interested in goals that have user-visible impact and make OpenStack easier to operate. If you are interested in proposing a goal, please write down your idea on the Victoria goals etherpad!
  • Interested in investing in OpenStack development, but don’t know where to maximize impact and returns? The OpenStack Technical Committee just refreshed its Investment opportunities list for 2020. Please have a look and don’t hesitate to reach out!

StarlingX: A fully featured cloud for the distributed edge

  • The next StarlingX Contributor Meetup is approaching fast! The event will be held on March 3-4 in Chandler, Arizona. Sign up on the etherpad if you are interested in joining or monitor the starlingx-discuss mailing list for updates if you cannot make it this time.

Zuul: Stop merging broken code

  • Learn about the history and evolution of Zuul in a recently featured article at opensource.com.
  • Zuul is working to become the official gating CI for the Gerrit project; you can follow the progress on their repo-discuss list, and help if you’re interested.

Find OSF at these Open Infrastructure Community Events

March

  • March 17: OpenInfra Day Turkey
    • Don’t miss the session that will be presented by Thierry Carrez, VP of Engineering at OpenStack Foundation
    • CFP will be closing on March 1st
  • March 27-28: HDC.Cloud – OSF Booth

April

May

June

October

For more information about these events, please contact [email protected]

Questions / feedback / contribute

This newsletter is written and edited by the OSF staff to highlight open infrastructure communities. We want to hear from you! If you have feedback, news or stories that you want to share, reach us through [email protected] . To receive the newsletter, sign up here.

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