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2024 Superuser Awards Nominations Now Open
Are you making a difference with open infrastructure? Nominate your team by July 31.
Congratulations to the 2023 Superuser Awards Winner: Bloomberg
Bloomberg wins the 2023 Superuser Awards.
Meet the 2023 Superuser Awards Nominees
Check out the highlights of the incredible 2023 Superuser Awards nominees that we have and vote for your favorite one!
2023 Superuser Awards Nominee: China Telecom – eSurfing Cloud
Meet China Telecom - eSurfing Cloud, one of the 10 nominees for the Superuser Awards in 2023.
2023 Superuser Awards Nominee: Workday
Meet Workday, one of the 10 nominees for the Superuser Awards in 2023.
2023 Superuser Awards Nominee: Acme Gating
Meet Acme Gating, one of the 10 nominees for the Superuser Awards in 2023.
2023 Superuser Awards Nominee: Encora
Meet Encora, one of the 10 nominees for the Superuser Awards in 2023.
2023 Superuser Awards Nominee: TPG Telecom
Meet TPG Telecom, one of the 10 nominees for the Superuser Awards in 2023.
2023 Superuser Awards Nominee: Hubei Jointour Technology Co., LTD
Meet Hubei Jointour Technology, one of the 10 nominees for the Superuser Awards in 2023.
2023 Superuser Awards Nominee: KeepSec Technologies
Meet KeepSec Technologies, one of the 10 nominees for the Superuser Awards in 2023.
2023 Superuser Awards Nominee: Bloomberg
Meet Bloomberg, one of the 10 nominees for the Superuser Awards in 2023.
2023 Superuser Awards Nominee: OpenMetal
Meet OpenMetal, one of the 10 nominees for the Superuser Awards in 2023.
Tips for Applying for the 2023 Superuser Awards
Check out some tips and tricks in order to get your Superuser Awards nominations in before the deadline, May 5 at 11:59 p.m. PST.
2023 Superuser Awards Nominations Now Open
Are you making a difference with open infrastructure? Nominate your team by May 5.
Congratulations to the 2022 Superuser Awards Winners: OVHcloud, Ant Group
OVHcloud, Ant Group win Superuser Awards for large-scale deployment of OpenStack, innovative use of Kata Containers to reduce carbon emissions, respectively.
2022 Superuser Awards Nominee: Inspur
Meet the Department Information Technology of Agricultural Development Bank of China, a customer of Inspur who is one of the 11 nominees for the Superuser Awards in 2022
2022 Superuser Awards Nominee: Ant Group
Meet Ant Group, one of the 11 nominees for the Superuser Awards in 2022
2022 Superuser Awards Nominee: OpenMetal
Meet OpenMetal, one of the 11 nominees for the Superuser Awards in 2022
2022 Superuser Awards Nominee: CanaryBit
Meet CanaryBit, one of the 11 nominees for the Superuser Awards in 2022
2022 Superuser Awards Nominee: Volvo Cars Corporation
Meet Volvo Cars Corporation, one of the 11 nominees for the Superuser Awards in 2022
2022 Superuser Awards Nominee: Fairbanks
Meet Fairbanks, one of the 11 nominees for the Superuser Awards in 2022
2022 Superuser Awards Nominee: Zhejiang Expressway Co, IT Team
Meet Zhejiang Expressway Co, IT Team, one of the 11 nominees for the Superuser Awards in 2022
2022 Superuser Awards Nominee: Jiangsu Suzhong Construction Group, IT team
Meet Jiangsu Suzhong Construction Group, IT team, one of the 11 nominees for the Superuser Awards in 2022
2022 Superuser Awards Nominee: Daniel Byström
Meet Daniel Byström, one of the 11 nominees for the Superuser Awards in 2022
2022 Superuser Awards Nominee: OVHcloud
Meet OVHcloud, one of the 11 nominees for the Superuser Awards in 2022
Meet the 2022 Superuser Awards Nominees
Check out the highlights of the incredible 2022 Superuser Awards nominees that we have!
2022 Superuser Awards Nominations Now Open
Are you making a difference with open infrastructure? Nominate your team by May 2.
Yahoo wins Superuser Awards at OpenInfra Live: Keynotes
The Yahoo! Datacenter Infrastructure Cloud Engineering (DICE) team deploys around 4 million OpenStack cores across thousands of compute nodes and hundreds of thousands of physical servers in around 18 clusters
2021 Superuser Awards Nominee: The R&D, operations and engineering teams of Binero Group AB
The R&D, operations and engineering teams of Binero Group AB is one of 11 nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the OpenInfra Live: Keynotes.
2021 Superuser Awards Nominee: ORock Technologies
ORock Technologies is one of 11 nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the OpenInfra Live: Keynotes.
2021 Superuser Awards Nominee: OneQode
OneQode is one of 11 nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the OpenInfra Live: Keynotes.
2021 Superuser Awards Nominee: Yahoo! Datacenter Infrastructure Cloud Engineering (DICE)
Yahoo! Datacenter Infrastructure Cloud Engineering (DICE) is one of 11 nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the OpenInfra Live: Keynotes.
2021 Superuser Awards Nominee: OSISM GmbH
OSISM GmbH is one of 11 nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the OpenInfra Live: Keynotes.
2021 Superuser Awards Nominee: InMotion Hosting
InMotion Hosting is one of 11 nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the OpenInfra Live: Keynotes.
2021 Superuser Awards Nominee: Coredge.io
Coredge.io is one of 11 nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the OpenInfra Live: Keynotes.
2021 Superuser Awards Nominee: Cloud Team at Bloomberg
Cloud Team at Bloomberg is one of 11 nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the OpenInfra Live: Keynotes.
2021 Superuser Awards Nominee: Catalyst Cloud
Catalyst Cloud is one of 11 nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the OpenInfra Live: Keynotes.
2021 Superuser Awards Nominee: Component Soft
Component Soft is one of 11 nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the OpenInfra Live: Keynotes.
2021 Superuser Awards Nominee: CloudFire
CloudFire is one of 11 nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the OpenInfra Live: Keynotes.
Meet the 2021 Superuser Awards Nominees
Learn more about the 11 Superuser Awards nominees and support by sharing them with your audience on Twitter!
Superusers: Where are they Now | OpenInfra Live Recap
The latest episode of OpenInfra Live, the weekly show hosted by the OpenInfra Foundation, is now available on-demand.
2021 Superuser Awards Nominations Open
Are you making a difference with open infrastructure? Nominate your team by October 15.
SK Telecom 5GX Cloud Labs wins the 2020 Superuser Awards
SK Telecom 5GX Labs wins the Superuser Awards for their Airship use case.
Meet the 2020 Superuser Awards nominees
Learn more about the eight nominees and rate them by September 28.
2020 Superuser Awards Nominee: StackHPC
StackHPC is one of eight nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the 2020 Open Infrastructure Summit. Rate them by September 28.
2020 Superuser Awards Nominee: Trendyol Tech
Trendyol Tech is one of eight nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the 2020 Open Infrastructure Summit. Rate them by September 28.
2020 Superuser Awards Nominee: Leboncoin
Leboncoin is one of seven nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the 2020 Open Infrastructure Summit. Rate them by September 28.
2020 Superuser Awards Nominee: LINE
LINE is one of eight nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the 2020 Open Infrastructure Summit. Rate them by September 28.
2020 Superuser Awards Nominee: SK Telecom 5GX Cloud Labs
SK Telecom is one of eight nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the 2020 Open Infrastructure Summit. Rate them by September 28.
2020 Superuser Awards Nominee: China Mobile Network Cloud Integration Team
China Mobile Network Cloud Integration Team is one of eight nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the 2020 Open Infrastructure Summit. Rate them by September 28.
2020 Superuser Awards Nominee: Adobe Platform Infrastructure Team
The Adobe Platform Infrastructure Team is one of eight nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the 2020 Open Infrastructure Summit. Rate them by September 28.
2020 Superuser Awards Nominee: Workday Private Cloud Team
Workday Private Cloud Team is one of eight nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the 2020 Open Infrastructure Summit. Rate them by September 28.
Where are they now? Superuser Awards winner: VEXXHOST
The latest on VEXXHOST, who manages over 100,000 cores across public and private clouds powered by OpenStack.
Where are they now? Superuser Awards winner: NTT Group
Here we catch up with NTT Group and hear how they continue to be on the front lines deploying OpenStack in their organization to drive business success.
Where are they now? Superuser Awards: City Network
City Network is all in on OpenStack, serving over 1,200 public cloud customers across the globe.
Where are they now? Superuser Awards winner: China Mobile
Here we catch up with China Mobile and hear how they carry out in-depth practice of OpenStack as the cloud infrastructure, to build their NFV/SDN network.
Annual Superuser Awards Open!
Are you making a difference with open infrastructure? Nominate your team before September 15.
Where are they now? Superuser Awards winner: CERN
Over 90% of the infrastructure in the CERN computer center is managed and provisioned by OpenStack.
From Tutorials to Case Studies, Share your Open Infrastructure Wisdom with Superuser
The Superuser editorial team wants to encourage contributions from everyone, upholding its goals to serve as a publication for the community, by the community.
Baidu wins Superuser Award at Open Infrastructure Summit Shanghai
The Baidu ABC Cloud Group and Edge Security Team integrated Kata Containers into their fundamental platform for the entire Baidu internal and external cloud services with OpenStack and Kubernetes.
Meet the Shanghai Open Infrastructure Superuser Award nominees
Learn more about the five nominees and rate them by October 8.
Shanghai Superuser Award Nominee – FortNebula
FortNebula is one of five nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the Open Infrastructure Summit Shanghai. Rate them by October 8.
Shanghai Superuser Award Nominee: Baidu ABC Cloud Group & Security Edge teams
Baidu ABC Cloud Group & Security Edge team is one of five nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the Open Infrastructure Summit Shanghai. Rate them by October 8.
Shanghai Superuser Award Nominee: Information Management Department of Wuxi Metro
Information Management Department of Wuxi Metro is one of five nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the Open Infrastructure Summit Shanghai. Rate them by October 8.
Shanghai Superuser Award Nominee: InCloud OpenStack Team
InCloud OpenStack Team is one of five nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the Open Infrastructure Summit Shanghai. Check out their story and rate their nomination by October 8.
Shanghai Superuser Award Nominee – Rakuten Mobile Network Organization
Rakuten Mobile Network Organization is one of five nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the Open Infrastructure Summit Shanghai. Check out their story and rate their nomination by October 8.
Superuser Awards open for Open Infrastructure Summit Shanghai
Are you making a difference with open infrastructure? Nominate your team before September 27.
And the Superuser Award goes to…
VEXXHOST takes home the prize from this edition.
Superuser Awards: Make your opinion count!
Rate the four nominees for this edition by April 2 at 11:59 p.m. pacific standard time.
Meet the Denver Open Infrastructure Superuser Award nominees
Learn more about the four nominees and rate them by April 2.
Denver Superuser Awards Nominee: EnterCloudSuite
The EnterCloudSuite Team is one of four nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the OpenStack Summit Denver. Rate them by April 2.
Denver Superuser Awards Nominee: National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou, Sun Yat-Sen University
National Supercomputer Centre in Guangzhou, Sun Yat-Sen University is one of four nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the OpenStack Summit Denver. You have until April 2 to rate them.
Denver Superuser Awards Nominee: VEXXHOST
VEXXHOST is one of four nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the OpenStack Summit Denver. You have until April 2 to rate them.
Denver Superuser Awards Nominee: Whitestack
Whitestack is one of four nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the OpenStack Summit Denver. Voting closes April 2.
Tips for applying for the Superuser Award
How to make your application for the Superuser Awards stand out. Deadline for applications for the Denver Summit is March 22.
Superuser Awards nominations open for Open Infrastructure Summit
Are you making a difference with open infrastructure? Nominate your team by March 22.
And the Superuser Award goes to…
City Network takes home the prize from this edition.
Vote now for the Berlin Summit Superuser Award
Community members have until Oct. 21 to weigh in on five nominees.
Berlin Superuser Awards Nominee: Adform, CloudServices Team
Adform, CloudServices Team is one of five nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the OpenStack Summit Berlin. Voting closes October 21.
Berlin Superuser Awards Nominee: City Network
City Network's R&D professional services, education and engineering teams are one of five nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the OpenStack Summit Berlin. Voting closes October 21.
Berlin Superuser Awards Nominee: Linaro Datacenter and Cloud Group (LDCG)
Linaro is one of five nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the OpenStack Summit Berlin. Voting closes October 21.
Berlin Superuser Awards Nominee: ScaleUp Technologies
ScaleUp Technologies is one of five nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the OpenStack Summit Berlin. Voting closes October 21.
Meet the newest members of the Superuser Editorial Advisory Board
Three new members will be weighing in on the Superuser Awards and shaping editorial content.
Join the Superuser Editorial Advisory Board
Have your say in what aspects of open infrastructure to cover now.
Superuser Award nominations open for the Berlin Summit
Nominations for ninth edition are open until October 5.
And the Superuser Award goes to…
The Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) wins the Superuser Award at the OpenStack Summit Vancouver.
Vancouver Superuser Award Nominee: City Network
City Networks is one of the nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the OpenStack Summit Vancouver, May 21-24.
Vancouver Superuser Award Nominee: Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR)
Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) is one of the nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the OpenStack Summit Vancouver, May 21-24.
Vancouver Superuser Award Nominee: SmartMe
SmartMe is one of the nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the OpenStack Summit Vancouver, May 21-24.
Vancouver Superuser Award Nominee: Telia
Telia is one of the nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the OpenStack Summit Vancouver, May 21-24.
Vancouver Superuser Award Nominee: T-Mobile
T-mobile is one of the nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the OpenStack Summit Vancouver, May 21-24.
Vancouver Superuser Awards Nominee: VEXXHOST
VEXXHOST is one of the nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the OpenStack Summit Vancouver, May 21-24.
Vancouver Superuser Award Nominee: Wingu
Wingu is one of the nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the OpenStack Summit Vancouver, May 21-24.
Superuser Awards nominations open for OpenStack Summit
Superuser Awards nominations are open for the Vancouver Summit.
And the Superuser Award goes to…
The Tencent TStack team won the Superuser Award at the OpenStack Summit Sydney.
It’s that time again! Cast your vote for the Sydney Superuser Awards
Review the nominees by Wednesday, September 20 to influence the Sydney Summit Superuser Awards winner.
Sydney Superuser Award Nominee: China Railway Corporation
China Railway Corporation is one of the nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the OpenStack Summit Sydney, November 6-8.
Sydney Superuser Awards Nominee: China UnionPay
China UnionPay is one of the nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the OpenStack Summit Sydney, November 6-8.
Sydney Superuser Award Nominee: City Network
City Network is one of the nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the OpenStack Summit Sydney, November 6-8.
Sydney Superuser Award Nominee: Insurance Australia Group (IAG) Data Team
The IAG Data Team is one of the nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the OpenStack Summit Sydney, November 6-8.
Sydney Superuser Award Nominee: Memset Hosting – OpenStack Public Cloud Team
Memset Hosting is one of the nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the OpenStack Summit Sydney, November 6-8.
Sydney Superuser Awards Nominee: Tencent TStack Team
The Tencent TStack Team is one of the nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the OpenStack Summit Sydney, November 6-8.
Sydney Superuser Award Nominee: VEXXHOST
VEXXHOST is one of the nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the OpenStack Summit Sydney, November 6-8.
Superuser Best of Sydney Summit Guide
There's plenty to learn about edge, multi-cloud and Kubernetes at the Sydney Summit.
And the Superuser Award goes to…
It's a tie: Paddy Power Betfair and UKCloud won the Superuser Award at the OpenStack Summit Boston.
It’s your chance to rate the Superuser Awards nominees for the OpenStack Summit Boston
Review the nominees by Tuesday, April 4 to influence the Boston Summit Superuser Awards winner.
Boston Superuser Awards Nominee: City Network
City Network is a nominee for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the OpenStack Summit Boston, May 8-11.
Boston Superuser Awards Nominee: MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) is a nominee for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the OpenStack Summit Boston, May 8-11.
Boston Superuser Awards Nominee: Ocado Technology
Ocado Technologies is one of the nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the OpenStack Summit Boston, May 8-11.
Boston Superuser Awards Nominee: Paddy Power Betfair
Paddy Power Betfair is one of the nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the OpenStack Summit Boston, May 8-11.
Boston Superuser Awards Nominee: Snapdeal
Snapdeal is one of the nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the OpenStack Summit Boston, May 8-11.
Boston Superuser Awards Nominee: UKCloud
UKCloud is one of the nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the OpenStack Summit Boston, May 8-11.
Boston Superuser Awards Nominee: VMware
VMware is one of the nominees for the Superuser Awards to be presented at the OpenStack Summit Boston, May 8-11.
And the Superuser Award goes to…
12 teams competed. China Mobile walked away with the award.
Catch Superuser Magazine at the Barcelona Summit
Wrap your hands around the print edition for exclusive info and fantastic user stories.
It’s your chance to rate the Superuser Awards nominees
Review the 12 nominees across four categories to influence the Barcelona Summit Superuser Awards winner.
And the Superuser Award goes to…
AT&T takes the fourth annual Superuser Award.
Austin Superuser Awards: your vote counts
Vote for one of the four finalists: AT&T, Betfair, DreamHost, Workday Inc. The winner will be announced at the Austin Summit.
Austin Superuser Awards Finalist: AT&T
The legacy telecom is in the top 20 percent for upstream contributions with plans to increase this significantly in 2016.
Austin Superuser Awards finalist: Betfair
OpenStack is responsible for a cultural shift as the organization moves to an "everything-as-code" approach.
Austin Superuser Awards finalist: DreamHost
A founding member of the OpenStack Foundation, the team has collaborated as project team leads, contributed code and initiated project Astara and key API framework Pecan.
Austin Superuser Awards finalist: Workday, Inc.
OpenStack enables Workday services to be tested at scale without increasing operational cost nor capital expenditure.
Superuser Awards nominations now open
Teams of any size who are innovating with OpenStack while contributing to the community are invited to apply.
Superuser roundtable: benefits and use cases for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)
OpenStack users share NFV experiences and recommendations for the Mitaka release cycle.
Sitting down with NTT Group, the Superuser Awards winner at the OpenStack Summit Tokyo
Shintaro Mizuno and Toshikazu Ichikawa, senior research manager supervisor and senior research manager at NTT Software Innovation Center discuss NTT Group's three production deployments and how their team extensively contributes back to the OpenStack community.
And the Superuser Award goes to…
NTT Group takes the third annual Superuser Award
Superuser facilitating the OpenStack conversation
OpenStack:Now’s Nick Chase and John Jainschigg talk with Allison Price of the OpenStack Foundation about Superuser and the importance of communicating with the community.
Coming soon: Superuser TV!
Contact [email protected] if you would like to participate.
Superuser Awards: your vote counts
Vote for one of the four finalists: FICO, Lithium Technologies, GoDaddy, or Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT Group). The winner will be announced at the Tokyo Summit.
Tokyo Superuser Awards Finalist: FICO
OpenStack has been a paradigm shift for FICO's developers and operations, empowering them with direct access to provision and destroy instances.
Tokyo Superuser Awards Finalist: NTT Group
NTT Group has three OpenStack use cases in production and its team has contributed 1,054 total commits, ranking 18 out of 263 total organizations
Tokyo Superuser Awards Finalist: GoDaddy
GoDaddy serves over 13 million customers and virtual machines with month-to-month growth of over 25 percent.
Tokyo Superuser Awards Finalist: Lithium Technologies
Current OpenStack deployment is about 1,000 virtual machines expected to double by year-end and developers are 'aggressively' deploying new microservices using containers.
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Superuser weekend reading
OpenStack explained to teens, the architecture of Alanis Morisette, and yes, everything you know is wrong...
Superuser weekend reading
Playing peek-a-boo with search terms, OpenStack birthday celebrations and Godzilla...
Superuser weekend reading
The role of consumers vs. contributors in OpenStack, Cinder 101 and cloud deployment, Ikea style.
Superuser weekend reading
Why OpenStack is a big dog (but still a friendly one) and tackling the meaty question of whether there are too many cooks in the open-source kitchen...
Superuser weekend reading
The Matrix, Mars vs. Venus and what's keeping you up at night...
Superuser weekend reading
Cloud company consolidation, whether OpenStack is kryptonite or catnip for startups and more...
Superuser weekend reading
Big buys, Swift and separating the froth from the milk...
Superuser weekend reading: Summit Vancouver edition
Decomposing OpenStack myths, time for prime time and goslings: there's a lot going this week...
And the Superuser Award goes to…
Comcast takes the second annual Superuser award, in a close race with finalists eBay, the National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou and Walmart.
Superuser weekend reading
Heading to the Vancouver Summit, a technology layer cake and the scramble for IP addresses...
Superuser weekend reading
Keeping OpenStack from getting lost in translation, how Docker plus OpenStack equals cloud powerhouse and why it's 1996 all over again...
Superuser weekend reading
The weight behind the Kilo release, Geocaching in Vancouver and how the cloud could save you from foolish pursuits.
OpenStack superusers deliver the goods at CONNECT
The one-day conference in Melbourne featured some of the top thought leaders in open-source cloud computing from Aptira, EMC, Rackspace, Red Hat, SUSE and more.
Superuser weekend reading
How a small team can deliver big impact with OpenStack, foodie picks for the Vancouver Summit and whether is cloud computing is the next mass-market car industry...
Superuser weekend reading
OpenStack playbooks, picking the new user group logos, serious Star Wars discussions and more...
Vancouver Superuser Awards Finalist: Comcast
Contributors of more than 36,000 lines of code to OpenStack, the Comcast team has increased its infrastructure by more than 500 percent in the last year
Vancouver Superuser Awards Finalist: eBay Inc.
Powering 100 percent of PayPal's 2014 holiday web traffic, the eBay Inc. cloud is continuing to scale, with plans to boost the number of hypervisors by 17 percent.
Superuser Awards Finalist: National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou
The science and technology project team actively contributes commits, ranking 22 in the OpenStack Juno cycle.
Superuser Awards Finalist: Walmart
The retail giant with 100,000 cores and a desire to give back to the community.
Superuser weekend reading
OpenStack in the classroom, back to the future with storage tape, what happens when the haters meet for sushi and more.
Superuser Awards
The Superuser Awards recognize teams using Open Infrastructure to meaningfully improve business and differentiate in a competitive industry, while also contributing back to the open source communities. They aim to cover the same mix of open technologies as our publication, namely OpenStack, Kubernetes, Kata Containers, Airship, StarlingX, Ceph, Tungsten Fabric, Open vSwitch, Zuul, Ansible and […]
Heading to the OpenStack Summit Austin? Take Superuser with you
The iOS and Android app for Superuser will help keep up you up-to-date during the conference.
Superuser weekend reading
The finish line for Kilo is in sight after another successful sprint! This week’s roundup also covers the news about Nebula going dark, Wall Street victories from Go Daddy and Red Hat and more.
Superuser weekend reading
It's your turn to design the shirts on our back! Also in this week's round-up, PayPal powers its private cloud with OpenStack, CERN's Tim Bell gets to the core of matters and more.
Superuser weekend reading
Why OpenStack is as disruptive as Velcro pockets on sneakers, the final agenda for the Vancouver Summit and more in this week's round-up...
Deadline for Superuser Awards: March 22
We've extended the deadline for the second annual awards. Winners will take the stage at the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver, Canada in May.
Superuser weekend reading
How far you can go with asking for forgiveness rather than permission, the future of OpenStack's core mission and more.
Superuser weekend reading
VMware + Telcos snuggle up to OpenStack, hiring managers seek OpenStack expertise and free upstream training...
Superuser weekend reading
Whether you shouldn't touch OpenStack with a barge pole, Kubernetes integration, what hiring managers want and more...
Superuser Weekend Reading
“Like a lemming at the proverbial sea cliff, however, the enterprise would do well to avoid blindly following the group. With data infrastructure becoming so fungible these days, the ability to craft optimized solutions is cheaper and easier than ever, even on traditional data center infrastructure." Arthur Cole, Tesora.
Superuser Weekend Reading
How to draw an owl, a pitch for "Liberty" T-shirts and the potential of Panelist-as-a-Service in this week's round-up of what's going on in the OpenStack community...
Superuser Weekend Reading
Will there ever be a 'Vanilla' OpenStack? What about eating your competitor's lunch? This and more musings to whet your appetite from the OpenStack community this week...
Musings and Predictions from Superuser’s Editorial Advisors
"I really believe that the new features in the Kilo release will be focused not only on adjusting the code, but on the architecture behind it." - Alejandro Comisario, Nubeliu
OpenStack Superuser Reader for iOS
Get the latest Superuser articles on your mobile iOS device. Android version coming soon.
And the Superuser Award goes to…
The winning team is presented the very first Superuser Award alongside fellow nominees and Honorable Mention.
[Update: Deadline Extended!] Superuser Awards Submissions Close Tuesday, September 23
You've got all weekend to polish up your submissions. Submit your application by 11:59 PM CT on Tuesday, September 23rd. Don’t miss out!
OpenStack Unveils Inaugural Superuser Awards
Award winners will be announced on stage at the OpenStack Paris Summit in November
VIDEO: Superuser Testimonials —Benefits of Competitive Advantage
Superusers at the Atlanta Summit reveal the competitive advantages they experience as part of the OpenStack community
Catching up with the Original Superusers
An in-depth look at a Cisco, CERN, Bloomberg and new OpenStack user DigitalFilm Tree, and what got them to where they are today
Welcome, Superuser
What makes a superuser a superuser? By Jonathan Bryce
Migrating from VMware to OpenStack with Migratekit
Meet Migratekit, an open source CLI tool from VEXXHOST designed to simplify the process of migrating from VMware to OpenStack with minimal disruption.
Migrating from VMware to OpenStack with Coriolis
Coriolis is a fully distributed and scalable system that provides both “lift-and-shift” migration services (CMaaS) and cross-site disaster recovery features
OpenInfra Asia Summit 2024 Recap
The OpenInfra Summit Asia 2024 highlighted the critical role of the open-source community in driving innovation within the cloud industry.
China Mobile’s Use of the Open Infrastructure Blueprint
China Mobile Cloud is a solution by China Mobile that combines Linux, OpenStack, and Kubernetes in production.
Inside Open Infrastructure: October 2024
Hear the latest around the upcoming PTG, the arrival of OpenStack's 30th release, OpenInfra events and more!
Datacomm’s Success Story: Launching A New Data Center Seamlessly With FishOS
Explore how Sardina Systems, an OpenInfra Foundation silver member, helped deploy Datacomm Diangraha's largest data center yet, DC4, enhancing their infrastructure.
Revolution in Cloud Economy: How FishOS – Integrated Solution Reduced Enterprise’s Cloud Costs by 50%
Learn how GRASS-MERKUR, a major player in German data center services, reduced their service costs by half by implementing FishOS – Integrated Solution designed with Vespertec’s hardware.
Inside Open Infrastructure: June 2024
Particpate in the OpenInfra User Survey, meet the newest OpenInfra Foundation Members, join us at the OpenInfra Summit Asia and more!
From Student to Full time Contributor: Meet Ashley Rodriguez
Ashley Rodriguez share how the OpenInfra University Partnership Program prepared her for her professional career.
Collaboration of Open Radio Access Network Software Community and OpenStack Tacker Delivers vRAN Advancements
OpenStack Tacker has contributed to O-RAN SC for realizing a reference implementation of vRAN based service systems.
Inside Open Infrastructure: April 2024
Learn the latest on OpenStack's 29th release, Caracal 2024.1, OpenInfra event updates and more ways to get involved in the global OpenInfra community.
Tacker’s Contributions to ETSI-NFV Standards
OpenStack Tacker is an open source project for realizing a reference implementation of ETSI-NFV-compliant Generic Virtual Network Function Manager (G-VNFM) and NFV Orchestrator (NFVO).
Inside Open Infrastructure: January 2024
2023 OpenInfra Annual Report, project updates and the latest news from the OpenInfra community!
OpenStack Neutron – Networking In Cloud Demystified
Check out this step-by-step article that talks about the behind-the-scenes of networking and how virtual machines are connected to the outside world (internet).
Advantages of 5G Localization Services
In this article, we will discuss the mechanisms of how we can leverage 5G cellular technologies to help accurately detect the user location and explore the different use cases for enabling this feature.
Bioinformatics on OpenStack at CSC
Learn how Finnish non-profit, CSC is using OpenStack on bioinformatics.
Inside Open Infrastructure: October 2023 PTG Recap
PTG Recap, project updates and the latest news from the OpenInfra community!
Identifying and Mitigating Compromised Tenant VMs in OpenStack Using Network Analysis
Learn how to identify a compromised tenant VM in an OpenStack environment and take action using network analysis tools like tcpdump and Wireshark.
Inside Open Infrastructure: OpenInfra Event Strategy Update
The latest news from the OpenInfra community!
StackHPC at Vancouver OpenInfra Summit
Check out StackHPC's OpenInfra Summit recap!
Complex Openstack Inventory – A Nightmare!
Learn how to use the 'inventory-manage.py' script to manage your OpenStack inventory effectively, including adding and removing hosts, generating inventory files, and customizing your inventory configuration.
New View on Interoperability in OpenStack
Learn about a new view on interoperability in OpenStack.
Cloud in a Box (CiaB) – Running on a Laptop
Learn how to run Cloud in a Box (CiaB) on a laptop.
Inside Open Infrastructure: The Next Virtual PTG is Happening in October!
The latest news from the OpenInfra community!
Exploring OpenStack Rally and Tempest Tools for Seamless Cloud Testing
OpenStack has become a go-to solution for organizations seeking to deploy and manage their own private cloud infrastructure. As cloud environments grow in complexity, the need for robust testing tools becomes increasingly vital to ensure stability, reliability, and performance.
Scaling OpenStack-Ansible Deployment: RabbitMQ and MariaDB – Option Three
Learn about one option when scaling your OpenStack-Ansible deployment with RabbitMQ and MariaDB.
Scaling OpenStack-Ansible Deployment: RabbitMQ and MariaDB – Option Two
Learn about one option when scaling your OpenStack-Ansible deployment with RabbitMQ and MariaDB.
Scaling OpenStack-Ansible Deployment: RabbitMQ and MariaDB – Option One
Learn about one option when scaling your OpenStack-Ansible deployment with RabbitMQ and MariaDB.
Cloud Platform Monitoring, Digital Twins and a Real-time Context Broker – Part 2
Learn more about cloud platform monitoring, digital twins and a real-time context broker.
Enhancing Kubernetes Security with Kyverno, RuntimeClass and Kata Containers
Flexibility without Compromise.
Deploying MicroVM on Top of Kubernetes
Learn how to deploy a microVM on top of Kubernetes, using Kata Containers runtime to run the microVM.
Inside Open Infrastructure: OpenInfra Summit Vancouver Recap!
The latest news from the OpenInfra community!
Demystifying Confidential Containers with a Live Kata Containers Demo
On Jun 13, 2023, during the Openinfra Summit Vancouver keynote, Xu Wang and Tao Peng, two engineers from Ant Group, co-presented a session on explaining Confidential Containers with a live Kata Containers demo.
OpenInfra Summit Vancouver Recap: 50 things You Need to Know
If you didn’t attend—or if you did and want a replay—Superuser collected the announcements, user stories and Forum discussions you may have missed.
South Korean Company, Okestro, Announces Gold Membership
OpenInfra Foundation announces Okestro's Gold Membership at this year's OpenInfra Summit.
Meet the Computing Force Network Working Group at the OpenInfra Summit!
Curious to learn more about what the Computing Force Network working group is doing? Check out these sessions at the OpenInfra Summit in Vancouver, Canada, June 13-15!
Meet the Premier Sponsor: Okestro
Check out the following sessions to learn more about our premier sponsor, Okestro!
China Telecom eSurfing Cloud Showcases openEuler Whitepaper
Superuser Nominee, China Telecom eSurfing Cloud shares whitepaper for new project, openEuler.
What Engineers Can Expect at PlatformCon
Excited for the OpenInfra Summit Vancouver, but eager to learn a little before? Check out this free virtual conference hosted by Humanitec!
Kata Containers Integrated with Microsoft’s AKS Offering for Improved Container Security | KubeCon EU
Good news, everyone! Kata catches on at KubeCon!
Learn How To Upgrade From OpenStack Experts
Meet the experts who have successfully upgraded their OpenStack deployments at the OpenInfra Summit, happening June 13-15 in Vancouver, CA.
Join me for the PTG and Forum at the OpenInfra Summit!
Check out the list of PTG teams that will be at OpenInfra Summit, happening June 13-15 in Vancouver, CA!
Inside Open Infrastructure: The OpenInfra Summit Keynotes
The latest news from the OpenInfra community!
LOKI at the OpenInfra Summit
Check out these LOKI talks at the OpenInfra Summit in Vancouver, CA, June 13-15!
Let’s Take a Trip Back to 2018
Remember 2018, when we were still the OpenStack Foundation and we hosted the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver?
StarlingX at the OpenInfra Summit
Check out these talks at the OpenInfra Summit in Vancouver, CA, June 13-15!
OpenStack Operators Edition: Who’s Speaking at the OpenInfra Summit?
Interested in learning more about how OpenStack operators are growing their OpenStack deployments? Check out these talks at the OpenInfra Summit in Vancouver, CA, June 13-15!
Kata at the OpenInfra Summit
Check out these talks at the OpenInfra Summit in Vancouver, CA, June 13-15!
Zuul at the OpenInfra Summit
Check out these talks at the OpenInfra Summit in Vancouver, CA, June 13-15!
Working with Swift, the Object Storage service in OpenStack
This article is part of a series of blog posts published by Luis Ramirez, who is on the path to becoming a Certified OpenStack Administrator.
Aligning with Kata Confidential Containers to achieve zero trust operator deployments with AKS
Confidential containers on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) leveraging Kata confidential containers open-source project are coming soon to Azure.
Deploying Istio on OpenStack: A Practical Guide
Learn how to deploy Istio on OpenStack.
Inside Open Infrastructure: Continue the Fist-Bump Chain at the OpenInfra Summit
Join us for a fist bump in at the OpenInfra Summit, June 13-15, in Vancouver, Canada
Augusta OpenInfra User Group Meetup
The Augusta OpenInfra User Group held its first meetup in Augusta, Georgia on March 16, 2023.
A Comprehensive Guide to Configuring GPU Passthrough in OpenStack for High-Performance Computing
Learn how to configure GPU passthrough in OpenStack for high-performance computing.
Viet OpenInfra User Group Holds Its 30th Meetup
The Viet OpenInfra User Group held its 30th meetup in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on March 11, 2023.
Part 2 – How to Restore Volumes and Snapshots in OpenStack
This article is part of a series of blog posts published by Luis Ramirez, who is on the path to becoming a Certified OpenStack Administrator.
Part 1 – How to Back Up in OpenStack
This article is part of a series of blog posts published by Luis Ramirez, who is on the path to becoming a Certified OpenStack Administrator.
Inside Open Infrastructure: The Latest OpenInfra Software Releases
Kata Containers 3.1.0-rc0, OpenStack Antelope, StarlingX 8.0, Zuul 8.2.0, Nodepool 8.2.0 and more!
How to Attach a New Volume to a VM in OpenStack
This article is part of a series of blog posts published by Luis Ramirez, who is on the path to becoming a Certified OpenStack Administrator.
Inject Workloads with Kata Containers in Istio
Learn how to inject workloads with Kata Containers in Istio.
Inside Open Infrastructure: The OpenInfra Summit Schedule is Live!
The OpenInfra Summit Schedule is Live, project updates and more!
Is It Edge or Just a Piece of a Large Distributed System? – Part 2
This article is part of a series of blog posts published by the OpenInfra Edge Computing Group, to address some of the thornier aspects of edge computing as it enters the mainstream adoption cycle.
OpenInfra User Group Sweden, OpenInfra Forum #13
Check out the latest in what local OpenInfra groups in Sweden have been up to.
Inside Open Infrastructure: The Latest from the OpenInfra Foundation
The 2022 OpenStack user survey, OpenInfra Summit 2023 CFP is live and more!
October 2022 Virtual PTG Summary
Over 700 developers, operators and community members throughout the week across the 46 teams that participated in this virtual PTG.
Inside Open Infrastructure: The Latest from the OpenInfra Foundation
Project Teams Gathering, upcoming releases, and more!
12 Years of OpenStack | OpenInfra Live Recap
OpenStack's 12th Birthday, OpenInfra Days & the OpenStack Antelope release!
Inside Open Infrastructure: The Latest from the OpenInfra Foundation
OpenInfra Summit Recap, upcoming events, project updates, and more!
OpenInfra Summit Berlin, I love it!
Here’s a snapshot covering the three-day OpenInfra Summit Berlin with 800+ attendees, 100+ sessions, 23 sponsors and one global OpenInfra community.
OpenStack is Blooming!
Check out the latest in what local OpenInfra groups in Thailand have been up to!
What does it take to bring and operate your edge in production? — Day 2
This article is part of a series of blog posts published by the OpenInfra Edge Computing Group, to address some of the thornier aspects of edge computing as it enters the mainstream adoption cycle.
What does it take to bring and operate your edge in production? — Day 1
This article is part of a series of blog posts published by the OpenInfra Edge Computing Group, to address some of the thornier aspects of edge computing as it enters the mainstream adoption cycle.
What can you expect to learn about OpenStack at the OpenInfra Summit?
Your most pressing questions about the past, present, and future of the OpenStack project answered at the OpenInfra Summit.
Inside Open Infrastructure: The Latest from the OpenInfra Foundation
The OpenInfra Summit, project updates, and more!
DevIntOps – How Telco Achieve Agility
How China Mobile applies DevOps and achieves agility in the telco cloud network.
Inside Open Infrastructure: The Latest from the OpenInfra Foundation
OpenStack Yoga, what to expect at the OpenInfra Summit, project updates, and more!
OpenInfra User Group Sweden, OpenInfra Forum #11!
Check out the latest in what local OpenInfra groups in Sweden have been up to!
See the OpenInfra Community Back in Berlin!
A tribute to the OpenInfra community.
Inside Open Infrastructure: The Latest from the OpenInfra Foundation
The OpenInfra Summit schedule, project updates, and more!
Zuul Sessions Featured at OpenInfra Summit Berlin
Join the Zuul community in Berlin for the OpenInfra Summit, June 7-9!
Benefits of running LOKI
If you combine Linux, OpenStack, and Kubernetes, you get the most awesome Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud: LOKI.
Reimagining a Telco Using Open Technologies
Through the right use of open technologies, operators are recovering efficiency and regaining control of their cloud and networking infrastructure, something we are actively seeing in the field!
Environmental Reporting Dashboards for OpenStack from BBC R&D
We make environmental reporting possible for operators of OpenStack cloud deployments.
20 Talks to Feel Inspired When You Submit to the Berlin Summit CFP
It's time to put your thinking cap on, and here are 20 talks that are loved by the OpenInfra community from the previous Summits.
Inside Open Infrastructure: The Latest from the OpenInfra Foundation
Zuul 5.0 and StarlingX 6.0, The OpenInfra Summit, project updates, and more!
Inside Open Infrastructure: The Latest from the OpenInfra Foundation
The OpenInfra Summit CFP is open, project updates, and more!
Your Berlin OpenInfra Summit Alerts Are Here
Join the programming committee and influence the Summit!
Large Scale OpenStack: Operators’ Tricks and Tools | OpenInfra Live Recap
This new episode of the “Large Scale OpenStack” show will discuss operators' tricks and tools.
Inside Open Infrastructure: The Latest from the OpenInfra Foundation
OpenInfra Live: Keynotes Recap, the OpenInfra Summit is back, project updates, and more!
OpenInfra Live: Keynotes Highlight Energy, Momentum Across Open Infrastructure
The two-day event highlighted the latest innovation, trends, and production use cases from several global open source communities.
Inside Open Infrastructure: The Latest from the OpenInfra Foundation
Hybrid cloud use cases, news members, projects updates and more
Inside Open Infrastructure: The Latest from the OpenInfra Foundation
The 2022 Berlin Summit returns, PTG, OpenInfra Live: Keynotes, project updates, and more!
OpenStack is Alive: Explosive Growth Among Production Deployments | OpenInfra Live Recap
The latest episode of OpenInfra Live, the weekly show hosted by the OpenInfra Foundation, is now available on-demand.
OpenInfra in Production: Hybrid Cloud | OpenInfra Live Recap
The latest episode of OpenInfra Live, the weekly show hosted by the OpenInfra Foundation, is now available on-demand.
Key OpenStack Capabilities for 5G Networks
Nine out of ten leading telco networks across the world are deploying OpenStack. Learn why OpenStack is crucial in 5G solutions.
Large Scale OpenStack: Neutron Scaling Best Practices | OpenInfra Live Recap
The latest episode of OpenInfra Live, the weekly show hosted by the OpenInfra Foundation, is now available on-demand.
OpenStack Xena Release | OpenInfra Live Recap
The latest episode of OpenInfra Live, the weekly show hosted by the OpenInfra Foundation, is now available on-demand.
Inside Open Infrastructure: The Latest from the OpenInfra Foundation
The 2022 Berlin Summit returns, PTG, OpenInfra Live: Keynotes, project updates, and more!
OpenStack and Ceph | OpenInfra Live Recap
The latest episode of OpenInfra Live, the weekly show hosted by the OpenInfra Foundation, is now available on-demand.
OpenInfra Days 2021 | OpenInfra Live Recap
The latest episode of OpenInfra Live, the weekly show hosted by the OpenInfra Foundation, is now available on-demand.
Open Source Job Openings (and how to land them) Round Two | OpenInfra Live Recap
The latest episode of OpenInfra Live, the weekly show hosted by the OpenInfra Foundation, is now available on-demand.
Inside Open Infrastructure: The Latest from the OpenInfra Foundation
Announcing the OpenInfra Live: Keynotes, welcome new members, project updates, and more!
Open Source Training Opportunities | OpenInfra Live Recap
The latest episode of OpenInfra Live, the weekly show hosted by the OpenInfra Foundation, is now available on-demand.
Large Scale OpenStack: Discussing Software-Defined Supercomputers | OpenInfra Live Recap
The latest episode of OpenInfra Live, the weekly show hosted by the OpenInfra Foundation, is now available on-demand.
OpenStack Basics | OpenInfra Live Recap
The latest episode of OpenInfra Live, the weekly show hosted by the OpenInfra Foundation, is now available on-demand.
Bare Metal: Ironic in Production | OpenInfra Live Recap
The latest episode of OpenInfra Live, the weekly show hosted by the OpenInfra Foundation, is now available on-demand.
Inside Open Infrastructure: The Latest from the OpenInfra Foundation
OpenStack user survey, OpenInfra Live, project updates, and more
Kata Containers Use Cases | OpenInfra Live Recap
The latest episode of OpenInfra Live, the weekly show hosted by the OpenInfra Foundation, is now available on-demand.
Lenovo IT’s Active-Active Private Cloud Build-up Based on OpenStack
ICS successfully set up an OpenStack-based private cloud using an active-active redundancy model to provide 100% availability to applications in 2020
OpenInfra Foundation: Building the Next Decade of Open Infrastructure
OpenInfra Foundation meets with Ant Group, Fiberhome, Huawei, Red Hat and Tencent and discuss the latest development of the OpenInfra communities in China
Inside Open Infrastructure: The Latest from the OpenInfra Foundation
2021 OpenInfra Events, the lastest about the projects, and more
Open Source Job Openings (and How to Land Them) | OpenInfra Live Recap
The latest episode of OpenInfra Live, the weekly show hosted by the OpenInfra Foundation, is now available on-demand.
How to Start Contributing Upstream to OpenInfra | OpenInfra Live Recap
The tenth episode of OpenInfra Live, the weekly show hosted by the OpenInfra Foundation, is now available on-demand.
Students of OpenInfra: Archana Kumari | Accurate Institute of Management and Technology
Check out how Archana got started working with the OpenStack Manila project as part of her Outreachy internship.
Experts Discuss Tradeoffs, Frequency, and more around Upgrades of Large Scale OpenStack Deployments | OpenInfra Live Recap
The ninth episode of OpenInfra Live, the weekly show hosted by the OpenInfra Foundation, is now available on-demand
Inside Open Infrastructure: The Latest from the OpenInfra Foundation
StarlingX 5.0, OpenInfra Live episodes, projects updates and more
OpenInfra Leadership Tackles Questions Live | OpenInfra Live Recap
The eighth episode of OpenInfra Live, the weekly show hosted by the OpenInfra Foundation, is streaming live every Thursday!
Large Scale Open Source CI Featuring Zuul | OpenInfra Live Recap
This week’s OpenInfra Live episode is brought to you by the experts from the Zuul community, discussing what Zuul is, the community, getting started, what’s next, and more.
Upgrades in Large Scale OpenStack Infrastructure | OpenInfra Live Recap
This week’s OpenInfra Live episode is brought to you by the experts from the OpenStack community, discussing their stories of upgrading in large scale OpenStack infrastructure.
Open Edge Infrastructure Conundrums and Solutions | OpenInfra Live Recap
This week’s OpenInfra Live episode is brought to you by the OpenInfra Edge Computing Group and the StarlingX community
OpenStack Multi-Arch SIG Making Progress Addressing Hardware Diversification Requirements
The OpenStack Multi-Arch SIG published a report detailing the development work occurring so OpenStack can have better integration with different CPU architectures.
NTT and KDDI Challenges for Sustainable Infrastructure Transformation
Meet requirements for large-scale telco services on mixed environment of VNF (Virtual Network Function) and CNF (Container Network Function) with OpenStack Tacker.
The Challenges and Opportunities of Bringing Open Source Infrastructure to a Wider Market
Mark Collier from OpenInfra Foundation and Todd Robinson from InMotion Hosting discuss the growth of open source infrastructure and tapping into the power of OpenStack.
Run Your Kubernetes cluster on OpenStack in production
Check out the lessons learned when running Kubernetes clusters on OpenStack in production and new challenges to bring in new services and high performance datapath.
Inside Open Infrastructure: The latest from the OpenInfra Foundation
Check out what happened at the Magma Developers Conference, PTG registration, project updates, and more
Open Infrastructure Foundation Silver Member Establishes a New Foothold in Private Cloud
InMotion Hosting, an Open Infrastructure Foundation Silver Member, launches a platform that supports the rapid deployment of small OpenStack private clouds.
Connecting Tribal Nations and Rural Towns with Magma
At the Magma Developers Conference, organizations talked about how they were bridging the digital divide with the open source mobile packet core technology.
The Progress for Cloud Computing on Arm Architecture
Latest progress for the software ecosystem of Arm architecture, the challenges for landing Arm-based servers, and the experience of production readiness.
You Know Nothing, Jon Snow! OpenStack Troubleshooting From a Beginner’s Perspective
There is no silver bullet to solve any OpenStack problem, but here are some tips that will help you "deal with the Wildlings" and become an OpenStack expert
2020 Annual Report: OpenInfra Event Highlights
OpenInfra in 2020: Take a look at some of the event highlights from the Annual Report for 2020, brought to you by the Open Infrastructure (OpenInfra) Foundation.
2020 Annual Report: OpenInfra Community Highlights
OpenInfra in 2020: Take a look at some of the OpenInfra community highlights from the Annual Report for 2020, brought to you by the Open Infrastructure (OpenInfra) Foundation.
Enhancement of Kubernetes Controller Pattern in Python with CRD
Kuryr benefits, architecture, Kuryr controller integration with Custom Resources and more
Auto-scaling in Viettel Networks Without OpenStack Telemetry
Find out how Faythe works as a bridge between the OpenStack Cloud platform and the Prometheus Monitoring system to solve the auto-scale problem in Viettel
New in OpenInfra: VEXXHOST’s Public Cloud Revamp Includes a Lot More Than the New Data Center in Amsterdam
Learn about the growth trajectory of a former Superuser Awards winner and a major contributor to the open source community
Enhancement of New Heterogeneous Accelerators Based on Cyborg
Cyborg architecture, Nova & Cyborg interaction mechanism, accelerator performance optimization, Cyborg's benefits to the cloud platform and more
Scaling Bare Metal Provisioning with Nova and Ironic at CERN: Challenges & Solutions
From 3 hours to 15 minutes, how to scale bare metal deployment with Nova and Ironic to several thousand nodes.
Digital Sovereignty – Why Open Infrastructure Matters
Find out why digital sovereignty and the goals of the GAIA-X initiative can be achieved with open infrastructure.
OpenStack in Production and Integration with Ceph: A European Weather Cloud User Story
Ceph, Nvidia GPUs, OpenStack upgrades from Rocky to Ussuri, and the Cloud’s interfaces with other European Projects and initiatives
Embarking on a New Venture: Creating a Private Cloud with OpenStack for Under $1700
Learn how you can build your own private cloud that #RunsOnOpenStack
Running Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster with Kata Containers
Find out how to run Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC Operator) using Kata containers
Virtual Open Infrastructure Summit Recap
Here’s a snapshot covering five days, over 100 sessions, two software releases, and a Foundation announcement backed by over 60 organizations.
#OpenInfraSummit Track: Security
We are featuring one of the seven Summit tracks—Security. Get your Summit tickets for free and add these sessions to your Summit calendar!
#OpenInfraSummit Track: Private & Hybrid Cloud
We are featuring one of the seven Summit tracks—Private & Hybrid Cloud. Get your Summit tickets for free and add these sessions to your Summit calendar!
#OpenInfraSummit Track: Public Cloud
We are featuring one of the seven Summit tracks—Public Cloud. Get your Summit tickets for free and add these sessions to your Summit calendar!
#OpenInfraSummit Track: Container Infrastructure
We are featuring one of the seven Summit tracks—Container Infrastructure. Get your Summit tickets for free and add these sessions to your Summit calendar!
#OpenInfraSummit Track: CI/CD
We are featuring one of the seven Summit tracks—CI/CD. Get your Summit tickets for free and add these sessions to your Summit calendar!
#OpenInfraSummit Track: 5G, NFV & Edge
We are featuring one of the seven Summit tracks—5G, NFV & Edge. Get your Summit tickets for free and add these sessions to your Summit calendar!
#OpenInfraSummit Track: AI / Machine Learning, HPC
We are featuring one of the seven Summit tracks—AI / Machine Learning, HPC. Get your Summit tickets for free and add these sessions to your Summit calendar!
Inside Open Infrastructure: The latest from the OpenStack Foundation
Open Infrastructure Summit schedule, project update and more
Inside open infrastructure: The latest from the OpenStack Foundation
Virtual OpenDev recap, upcoming OSF events, project update and more
OpenDev: Containers in Production, that’s a wrap!
Over 700 participants located in more than 70 countries representing 470 companies tuned in at OpenDev: Containers in Production
Contributor Q&A: A college student’s experience contributing to the OpenStack Ussuri release
Dawson Coleman, one of four students helping to add support for configuring TLS ciphers and protocols on Octavia load balancers, shares his experience collaborating with the OpenStack community on the Ussuri release.
Women of Open Infrastructure: Meet Amy Marrich on the OpenStack Foundation Board
"Find a mentor and an ally who you can ask questions but will also support you if you do speak out and someone tries to speak over you."
OpenDev Hardware Automation Recap and Next Steps
Over 400 participants located in more than 60 countries representing 200+ companies tuned in at OpenDev: Hardware Automation
Submission Tips for the Virtual Open Infrastructure Summit
The Summit Programming Committee has shared topics by Track for community members interested in speaking at the upcoming Summit, October 19 - 23.
Inside open infrastructure: The latest from the OpenStack Foundation
10 Years of OpenStack, OSF events, project updates and more
Thank You to the Last Decade, Hello to the Next!
Thank you for the 10 incredible years of contribution and support. We absolutely couldn’t have done it without you!
Women of Open Infrastructure: Meet Yumeng Bao from the OpenStack Cyborg Project
"We all make mistakes. You might see it as a mistake, while others see it as your engagement."
Takeaways and next steps from OpenDev: Large Scale Usage of Open Infrastructure
Participants from over 70 countries collaborated to discuss common challenges, solutions, and next steps for scaling open source technologies.
Inside open infrastructure: The latest from the OpenStack Foundation
OpenStack Ussuri release, OSF events, project updates and more
Project Teams Gathering (PTG) Recap
That's a wrap for the first virtual Project Teams Gathering!
Women of Open Infrastructure: Meet Victoria Martinez de la Cruz from the OpenStack Manila Project
"And the Open Infrastructure community? 10/10 would recommend to a friend"
Zuul: A T-Systems Case Study
Learn why gloabl IT company T-Systems, leverages Zuul’s ability to easily test workflows.
Inside open infrastructure: The latest from the OpenStack Foundation
OpenStack Ussuri release, OSF events, project updates and more
Inside open infrastructure: The latest from the OpenStack Foundation
Upcoming OSF virtual events, project updates and more
Women of Open Infrastructure: Meet Melanie from the OpenStack Nova Project
"Communities are mostly about people, not only code, so there is an element of match-making personalities and styles involved."
OpenStack Ironic Bare Metal Program case study: Red Hat
"Ironic provides a more efficient way to consume bare metal-managed nodes for our customers who were asking for a more simplified and cost effective way to deploy and manage large numbers of bare metal nodes with OpenStack."
Women of Open Infrastructure: Meet Amy Wheelus at AT&T
"There are no limits to what can be achieved if we bring the best minds of the world together to solve common problems."
Women of Open Infrastructure – Growing with the Open Source Community
"Open source culture is never just reusing free code on GitHub to enhance and promote their products." It's a community, from learning to mentorship offering.
Inside open infrastructure: The latest from the OpenStack Foundation
OpenStack is turning 10 this year! Celebrate 10 years of OpenStack with the global community.
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Women of Open Infrastructure – Reflections on Women’s History Month
"although this is a male-dominated industry, this is still an open space for everyone to join in. People are going to respect and listen to your ideas no matter what gender you are..."
StarlingX community interview: how StarlingX shines in the starry sky of open-source projects in China
“To overcome these obstacles, … , we made some initiatives, such as engaging with other Chinese community members at the meet-ups, hands-on workshops ad-hoc tech meetings in Chinese, translating some documents to Chinese..."
Collaborations cross industries: OpenStack Neutron and Discovery Open Science Initiative
Identify potential bottlenecks in the Neutron API, plan a performance testing and more
Introducing Zuul for improved CI/CD
A quick history of how and why Zuul is replacing Jenkins in CI testing in the OpenStack community.
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.
OpenStack Case Study: CloudVPS
“... OpenStack’s stability and maturity are particularly important to us right now. Upgradability is also a key factor for our team….”
The 10th China Open Source Hackathon Recap: Projects, Talks, and More
On December 15 -16 this week, the 10th China Open Source Hackathon officially started in Beijing, featuring OpenStack, Kata Containers and StarlingX.
Ethernet VPN Deployment Automation with OpenStack and ODL Controller
Check out a proposed SDN based architecture that shows how OpenStack and OpenDaylight can be used to automate the deployment of VPN instances.
A Guide to Kubernetes Etcd: All You Need to Know to Set up Etcd Clusters
Learn more about how etcd is a distributed database that co-align with distributed Kubernetes clusters from Sagar Nangare.
Inside open infrastructure: The latest from the OpenStack Foundation
This month's OSF newsletter features a Open Infrastructure Summit recap and project updates, including notes from the Shanghai Project Teams Gathering.
Using GitHub and Gerrit with Zuul: A leboncoin case study
Learn why leboncoin, one of the top ten most searched websites in France, leverages Zuul's flexibility to incorporate code from multiple sources.
Collaboration across Boundaries: Open Culture Drives Evolving Tech
Communities comprised of diverse individuals and companies united around the globe to celebrate OpenStack's ninth birthday, from Silicon Valley to the Pacific Northwest to the Far East.
Open Infrastructure in Germany: Hitting the Road with New and Growing OpenStack Use Cases
The OpenStack Day in Berlin featured open infrastructure deployments from leading local automakers and IT organizations.
OpenStack Ironic Bare Metal Program case study: VEXXHOST
“...we knew that choosing Ironic would resolve these difficulties, with the benefits being passed on to our users...”
OpenStack Ironic Bare Metal Program case study: China Mobile
“Originally, what took a day or even weeks, now takes half an hour to one hour.”
Review of Pod-to-Pod Communications in Kubernetes
Matt Zand dives into Pod-to-Pod communications by showing you ways in which Pods within a Kubernetes network can communicate with one another.
Unleashing the Open Infrastructure Potentials at OpenInfra Days Vietnam 2019
The second OpenInfra Day event in Vietnam gathered attendees from 90 companies to discuss how they're using open infrastructure to unleash the potential to increase flexibility, efficiency, and ease of management.
Tapping into Roots to Accelerate Open Infrastructure Growth in Japan
The latest event in Tokyo showed how OpenStack's deep roots in Japan have blossomed into a vast network of companies who contribute and operate open infrastructure at scale.
Analysis of Kubernetes and OpenStack Combination for Modern Data Centers
How do Kubernetes and OpenStack integrate and what are the benefits? Sagar Nangare has the answers.
A Global Celebration “For The Love of Open!”
OpenStack celebrates 9 years while the OSF celebrates 7 years of helping people build and operate open infrastructure.
Inside open infrastructure: The latest from the OpenStack Foundation
Check out the agenda for the Shanghai Summit, what's new in Kata Containers 1.8, and more of the latest updates from the Open Infrastructure community.
OpenStack Homebrew Club: Meet the sausage cloud
Kitting out an ex-nuclear bunker with a public cloud in a weekend.
Building a virtuous circle with open infrastructure: Inclusive, global, adaptable
Today’s groundwork shapes tomorrow’s innovation.
How to run a packaged function with Qinling
Gaëtan Trellu, technical operations manager at Ormuco, takes you to infinity and beyond.
OpenStack Ironic Bare Metal Program case study: StackHPC
"Ironic enables our clients to deploy on-premise high-performance computing infrastructure using the same methods they would use to deploy infrastructure in the cloud."
Help bring key contributors to the Open Infrastructure Summit with the Travel Support Program
Donate to the program for the Shanghai event.
Running an OpenStack cloud? Check out the next Operators Meetup
The next gathering, taking place in September 3-4 in New York City, is a chance for operators to share best practices and war stories.
How to run a simple function with Qinling
Gaëtan Trellu, technical operations manager at Ormuco, shows you how.
The ABCs of open-source license compliance
Consider compliance from the start -- no one thinks they'll be asked for the bill of material for their software until lawyers step in.
How to test your developer workflow with TripleO
Develop and test any OpenStack Python-based project in under 20 minutes -- Red Hat's Emilien Macchi shows you how.
Inside open infrastructure: The latest from the OpenStack Foundation
Get involved upstream with Glance, Airship TC elections open, Zuul 3.9.0 lands and more.
When less open source is more: Report finds that fewer components work best
“We’ve long advised organizations to rely on the fewest open-source components suppliers with the best track records,'' says Wayne Jackson, Sonatype CEO.
A quickstart guide to deploying Qinling in production
Gaëtan Trellu, technical operations manager at Ormuco, offers this guide.
Meet magnum-auto-healer: A solution for OpenStack Magnum clusters
This solution runs periodic health checks on Kubernetes nodes, searching for unhealthy instances and triggering replacements when needed.
Takeaways from OpenInfra Days Krakow 2019
Heating up the cross-project collaboration in Krakow.
What Programming Committee members are looking for in 5G, NFV & edge content for the Open Infra Summit Shanghai
Recommended topics and content ideas for the November Summit.
How to perfect your talk pitch for the Open Infra Summit Shanghai
Open Infrastructure Summit Programming Committee members share recommended topics and content ideas for the November Summit.
Openstack Ironic: Outreachy project works to extend sushy support
Varsha Verma shares her work on this project.
What your open-source project can learn from how OpenStack communicates
Automattic's Nicola Heald on strengthening ties between developers and users.
Inside open infrastructure: The latest from the OpenStack Foundation
News on Train development goals, takeaways from Kubecon EU and where to find us next.
Tasty hack: Make this Kubernetes cluster with five Raspberry Pis
Scality's Salim Salaues on how to set up a small, physically portable cluster and test the filling out of K3s.
Running Relax-and-Recover to save your OpenStack deployment
Carlos Camacho of Red Hat walks you through this disaster recovery solution for Linux.
Takeaways from the truly awesome OpenStack Days CERN
When a place literally blows your hair back: Kendall Nelson reports on her visit to The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).
What’s next for OpenStack Keystone
Colleen Murphy and Lance Bragstad share stats for the Stein cycle and talk about what's onboard for Train.
Edge computing takeaways from the Project Teams Gathering
What's happening with StarlingX, TripleO, Ironic and how you can get involved.
Travel Support Program launches for the Open Infrastructure Summit Shanghai
Deadline for applications: August 8, 2019.
What’s next for OpenStack compute: Nova updates
Melanie Witt and Eric Fried talk about what's new in this release and what to expect from the next one.
Inside open infrastructure: The latest from the OpenStack Foundation
What’s new with StarlingX, Zuu the Train release and where to find the open infra community next.
Accelerating science with OpenStack
Global research organizations gathered at OpenStack Day CERN to share how OpenStack and open collaboration support scientists answering the universe’s big questions.
The OpenStack Travel Support Program: Why face-to-face connection matters
Takeaways from recipients who attended the Open Infrastructure Summit Denver.
Tips for making your next “as-a-service” project a success
Twilio SendGrid's Mike Dorman on iterative improvements, minding metrics and leading the capacity curve.
Open Infrastructure, the virtual machine debate and open source in China: Shane Wang’s take
"OpenStack is simply more mature than Kubernetes. If your family has a new baby, all the attention will be focused on the new baby because the new baby needs more care than older siblings! In the future, I suspect we'll have new technologies to satisfy new scenarios..."
OpenStack Homebrew Club: Swift in the closet
John Dickinson's solution can store about 25,000 movies and in the future may monitor the San Francisco sky.
What’s next: 5G network slicing with ETSI OSM 5 and OpenStack
CalSoft's Sagar Nangare on the capabilities of this exciting tech.
Takeaways from the first open multi-vendor NFV showcase
Whitestack's Gianpietro Lavado reports on the event that shows carriers how they benefit from a horizontal NFV platform, instead of monolithic solutions from a single vendor.
Inside open infrastructure: The latest from the OpenStack Foundation
Check out videos from the Open Infra Summit, pitch your talk for Shanghai and dive into the new Zuul and Nodepool releases.
How Verizon Media rocks bare metal
How the media giant manages four million cores of infrastructure on OpenStack Ironic.
The Open Infrastructure Denver Summit: What you need to know
From new users to product launches, updates and case studies, the first Open Infra Summit covered a lot of ground. Here’s a news roundup.
The Open Infrastructure Summit: What we’ve built and where we’re headed
Despite freezing temps, Jonathan Bryce kept things warm and friendly by recounting his personal story and how it fits in with the future of open infrastructure.
OpenStack Ironic Bare Metal Program case study: Platform9
"With Ironic, the time to provision bare metal servers is orders of magnitude faster, from weeks or months to just under 20 minutes."
OpenStack Ironic Bare Metal Program case study: CERN
Managing 2,000 nodes with 10,000 servers to come for the world's largest machine.
It’s showtime for the OpenStack Ironic Bare Metal Program
Ironic offers many benefits to cloud architects and administrators who manage bare metal instances. Here's a look at how some of the 30 organizations in the OpenStack Ironic Bare Metal Program are using it.
Go stack outside: A quirky guide to Denver
City hikes, flea market finds and more adventures outside the Open Infrastructure Summit.
Growing the next generation of contributors: Open Infra Institute Day Hyderabad
Around 200 engineering students learned more about bare metal, container networking and automated deployments.
Take a deep dive into Ceph block storage
The object storage system allows users to mount Ceph as a thin-provisioned block device known as RADOS block Device (RBD). Intel’s Mahati Chamarthy offers this overview.
Testing cloud-native applications
Testing is critical for creating robust, reliable and scalable applications says author Onur Yilmaz. Here's a tutorial to get started.
Get started with Oracle Container Runtime for Kata Containers
An overview of how Kata Containers enhance the deployment of containerized applications.
Putting down roots in education: Open Infra Institute Day Pune
The one-day event introduced students to experts.
What’s next in OpenStack networking: Smart NIC support, Cyborg and guaranteed minimum bandwidth
On tap for the Stein release: Better scalability, SR-IOV VF-to-VF mirroring, and tighter community integration.
Report: 5G will run on open source, virtualization and edge
500 telecom insiders talk ambitious rollouts and challenges.
How Kata Containers boost security in Docker containers
Nils Magnus of Open Telekom Cloud shows how it's done.
How OpenStack and Ceph team up for distributed hyper-converged edge deployments
A look inside Red Hat's innovative solution.
Inside open infrastructure: The latest from the OpenStack Foundation
The latest releases from Zuul and Nodepool plus a spotlight on the upcoming PTG.
Strengthening open infrastructure: Integrating OpenStack and Kubernetes
A solution that allows cloud providers to offer both a container deployment platform based on Kubernetes and IaaS services provided by OpenStack accessible through a single set of credentials.
Takeaways from the latest OpenStack Ops Meetup
Frank Kloeker on the two-day event featuring architecture lightning talks and war stories.
Why you should master Rook for Ceph storage on Kubernetes
Alexander Trost, one of the project maintainers, gives an overview of Rook and its architecture.
How you can influence the Open Infrastructure Forum
Got pain points or pet projects? The deadline for proposing sessions is March 10.
How to rock your talk at the Open Infrastructure Summit
The editor of Superuser on avoiding buzzword bingo and minding your memes.
Meet the latest release of Kayobe: Even easier deployment of containerized OpenStack to bare metal
Added support for Docker registry, a Python package with Ansible playbooks and how you can get involved.
Inside open infrastructure: The latest from the OpenStack Foundation
Airship's treasure map, Zuul feature updates and upcoming events where you’ll find the OSF.
5G projects building strong use cases for Open Source MANO NFV
Whitestack's Gianpietro Lavado reports from the first OSM 5G day held in Spain.
End-to-end tracing with Ceph and Jaeger
A group of Boston University students with mentors from Red Hat and the Massachusetts Open Cloud share their project.
Architecting edge for self-driving cars with OpenStack and ETSI Open Source MANO
Researchers found 50 percent speed increase in a proof-of-concept.
Open Infrastructure Summit brings together people from over 30 open source projects
The agenda for the April Summit in Denver features experts on AI, machine learning, containers, edge and more.
Community Contributor Awards Open for Denver Summit
Nominate your unsung heroes before April 14.
Inside open infrastructure: The latest from the OpenStack Foundation
Common release goals for the next cycle, getting started with Airship and upcoming events where you'll find the OSF.
How the Vienna Biocenter powers HPC with OpenStack
The goal of the cloud computing project is to consolidate siloed computing environments and HPC infrastructures into a common platform for 500 scientists.
Walking the walk: Why it’s a crooked path for free software activists
Bradley M. Kuhn and Karen Sandler share the pitfalls and "farce" of trying not to use proprietary software.
Private Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) with OpenStack Cinder volumes for hybrid and multi-cloud
Check out this STaaS overview from students at PES University.
Continuous integration wanted: How a large online classified company uses Zuul
Build times at LeBonCoin went from 45 minutes to just five thanks to the open source CI/CD service.
Diversity in tech: Make your voice heard
Answer this short survey before February 28, 2019.
Takeaways from the first StarlingX contributor meetup
Ildiko Vancsa offers this recap of the two-day meetup.
Acting fast: Disaster recovery-as-a-service with OpenStack Keystone
In under 10 minutes an overview of DRaaS using open infrastructure.
Testing, one two three: How these OPNFV tools can help any open infrastructure project
The Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV) community spent about four years developing testing tools that can also help other open-source projects.
How to get a travel grant to the Open Infrastructure Summit
Contributors to open infrastructure projects are invited to apply by February 27.
EBSCO: A quick case study in OpenStack and managed Kubernetes
How Platform9 is helping the tech company make a “big push” to transform their stack.
Tips for the Open Infrastructure Summit
Open Infrastructure Summit Programming Committee members are sharing recommended topics and content ideas for the April Summit.
Tips for talks on the Public Cloud Track for the Denver Summit
Open Infrastructure Summit Programming Committee member Tobias Rydberg shares recommended topics and content ideas for the April Summit.
Inside open infrastructure: The latest from the OpenStack Foundation
Call for presentations for the Open Infrastructure Summit, a diversity survey and updates from Zuul, Airship, Kata Containers and StarlingX.
Going by the Ansible playbook: How eBay Classifieds survived Spectre and Meltdown
The open-source software helped reboot 80,000 cores over about seven months.
TripleO networks: From simplest to not-so-simple
Red Hat's Adam Young demystifies the eight network options.
Buffer your open infrastructure knowledge: Upcoming training & webinars
Whether you're looking to learn about security in Istio or re-vamping your data center with open source, these upcoming webinars are for you.
Tips for talks on the Open Development Track for the Denver Summit
Open Infrastructure Summit Programming Committee members share recommended topics and content ideas for the April Summit.
How open infrastructure drives the “empowered edge”
Gartner calls the latest edge driving 5G and internet of things a strategic tech trend for 2019.
Where to connect with OpenStack in 2019
Connect with the open infrastructure community near you.
Get schooled: Open infrastructure tutorials
If you made a resolution to learn more, here are some ideas for getting started.
What you’re doing with open infrastructure: Top user stories
From a micro-installation at a California seminary to CERN's massive open data portal.
A primer on service-to-service communication
Author Paul Osman offers this overview.
Inside open infrastructure: The latest from the OpenStack Foundation
Project updates from Zuul, Airship prepares to land the next release and Kata Containers celebrates a milestone.
Rev your engines: Open Infrastructure Summit seeks use cases, workshops for Denver
The call for presentations for the first Open Infrastructure Summit is open until January 23. Here's what's new.
How your feedback sparked what’s next for Cinder
Jay Bryant offers these updates from the Cinder team and how you can get involved.
Why evolving tech is powered by new, diverse contributors
As complexities heighten, collaboration across many, diverse communities is key.
How to use Alexa to keep an eye on your virtual machines
With about 100 lines of code, Amazon’s virtual assistant can check up on your data center.
Contain your excitement: Kata turns one!
The open-source project working to build a standard implementation of lightweight virtual machines (VMs) celebrates its one-year anniversary. Find out what's next and how you can get involved.
Inside open infrastructure: News Bulletin from the OpenStack Foundation
Here's the first edition of the bi-weekly newsletter on open infrastructure newsletter with highlights from the Berlin Summit and project updates.
How you can contribute to the Four Opens book
Here's how you can add insight and context to this ongoing effort.
What the OpenStack Upstream Institute is all about
An inside look on the free training and how you can get involved.
How to use Kiali to monitor micro-services in your Istio service mesh
Daniel Oh offers this tutorial on how to set up Kiali, which provides oversight on micro-services in Istio.
Zuul case study: Tungsten Fabric
Tungsten Fabric uses Zuul to gate changes made in over 70 source-code repositories. More from Jarek Łukow on challenges and benefits.
Why Monasca and Kolla are a match made in monitoring heaven
StackHPC's Doug Szumski on why the two work well together and how to get started.
OpenStack Summit Berlin recap: 51 things you need to know
From new users to product launches, updates and case studies, the OpenStack Summit Berlin covered a lot of ground. Here’s a news roundup from the Summit.
How code merged with fabric for a tribute to the OpenStack community
OSF's Kendall Nelson wore a code skirt onstage at the Berlin Summit. Here's the story behind it.
How to navigate the OpenStack Summit Berlin agenda
Find tips for navigating the November Summit's 100+ sessions covering open infrastructure use cases.
Get involved with diversity events at the Berlin Summit
Check out the Diversity & Inclusion Working Group, try speed mentoring and a networking lunch.
Yes it blends: Vanilla Forums and private clouds
Private cloud bolsters growth for the online community software company.
Performance benchmarking of OpenStack-based VIM and VNFs for NFV environments
Calsoft’s Sagar Nangare shares tips and test results.
Hallo, Stackers! How to get the most from the Berlin Summit
Superuser Editorial Advisory Board member Mark Korondi offers these tips.
How to create a self trust In Keystone
A tutorial from Adam Young shows how to set up a self trust for a reduced set of roles on your token.
Rocking the innovation revolution with open source
OVH hits the right notes at their annual Summit in Paris.
Inspiring the next generation of contributors to open infrastructure
Speed mentoring workshops offer a high-value, lightweight way to unite top-notch mentors and mentees
What’s the value of contributing to open source?
Nordix is a new initiative to help the Nordic region drive innovation through open source.
Kayobe and Rundeck: Operational hygiene for infrastructure as code
Stack HPC's Nick Jones pairs infrastructure automation tool Rundeck with Kayobe, a deployment of containerized OpenStack to bare metal.
How one of Sweden’s largest online lenders optimizes for speed
City Network customer SBAB talks microservices, agile team structure and OpenStack compliant cloud.
How to get high performance for network connected solid-state drives with NVMe over fabrics
OpenStack provides an ideal environment to implement efficient NVMe-based storage model for high throughput says Calsoft's Sagar Nangare.
Modern cloud native architectures: Microservices, Containers and Serverless – Part 2
Author Mina Andrawos offers this overview in a the second part of the series.
How open source projects are pushing the shift to edge computing
Cutting edge open source projects are driving this architectural shift even further, says AT&T's Gnanavelkandan Kathirvel.
Why now is the time to automate faster than evil
Manual methods to detect, investigate and respond to threats will guarantee failure in the future, according to a Forrester analysis.
Zuul case study: Packet Host
"Working with the OpenStack Infra team has really opened my eyes up to the capabilities of Zuul and the frameworks they’ve put together," says John Studarus.
Zuul case study: The OpenStack project
The OSF has been using Zuul for about six years. Superuser gets the origin story from Clark Boylan and Doug Hellman.
How to make your open source project more inclusive
Some fundamentals for creating a welcoming, productive environment.
Why now’s the time to revive the Searchlight project
Searchlight dramatically improves search capabilities and performance for various OpenStack cloud services. Trinh Nguyen talks about why it's time to turn it back on and how to get involved.
Modern cloud native architecture: What you need to know about micro-services, containers and serverless
Author Mina Andrawos offers this overview in a two-part series.
How better infrastructure security can stop fires before they start
Only you can prevent the brush fires in the on-prem prairies that become towering infernos in the cloud, says Oracle’s Greg Marsden.
Find your direction on the long and winding road to dev-ops
A new survey of 30,000 tech professionals outlines the non-linear paths companies take - and which roads lead to failure.
How to manage micro-services with Istio
IBM's Olaph Wagoner on how the open-source project meshes with Kubernetes and OpenStack.
How Arm is becoming a first class citizen in OpenStack
Gema Gomez recounts how her team delivered a fully-interoperable cloud running on Arm 64 hardware.
Spot the difference: Tenant, provider and external Neutron networks
Assaf Muller offers a few thoughts and a handy chart to clear up the confusion.
Why it’s time to get serious about NFV
The direction should be set by open-source projects like Open Source MANO and ONAP for a future of "horizontal" deployments, says Whitestack's Gianpietro Lavado.
Talking to the women of “Chasing Grace”: Nithya Ruff
“It’s important to have people around who push us to do more than we believe we can,” says Comcast's head of open source.
Zuul case study: Software Factory
Here's how the team employs the continuous integration, delivery and deployment system.
A passion for sharing and collaboration makes OpenInfra Days Vietnam a success
The first edition offers a fascinating snapshot of what's in national production.
What you need to know about the OpenStack Rocky release
Check out the high-impact features for bare metal clouds, fast forward upgrades and hardware accelerators.
How AI and IoT drive open infrastructure in Taiwan
A new cloud-computing platform in the works will pack seven petaflops of computing power with a storage capacity of 50 petabytes.
Expanding the horizons of the Community Contributor Awards
Nominate your unsung heroes for the spotlight!
How to run a Kubernetes cluster in OpenStack
"Extending OpenStack" author Omar Khedher offers this tutorial.
Contribution—not just consumption—is the message from OpenStack Days Tokyo
While expanding to bring together more open infrastructure and cloud native communities, a timely reminder about giving back.
Getting to know StarlingX: The high-performance edge cloud software stack
A peek inside the architecture and what's ahead at the Berlin Summit.
Igniting the great serverless debate
Serverless won't kill the data center. Or virtual machines. Or containers. Some thoughts on the problems it does solve and what the future looks like.
Banking on a cloud native future
"I moved all of my money to a new bank that's digitally native," says Abby Kearns of the Cloud Foundry Foundation.
Building and recognizing a more active user community
The OpenStack User Committee expanded the criteria for operators to qualify as an AUC leading up to the Berlin Summit.
How to integrate Qinling with OpenStack Swift
Outreachy intern Neerja Narayanappa offers this four-step tutorial.
OpenStack User Committee elections: Time to nominate and vote!
Active user contributors (AUCs) — including operators, contributors, event organizers and working group members — are invited to apply by August 17.
From cryptocurrency mining to public GPU cloud: a transformation story
Two million customers. Data centers in over 15 countries. More than a million GPUs for cryptocurrency mining. A look inside Genesis Mining and Genesis Cloud.
Inside the latest edition of “Learning OpenStack Networking”
The third edition offers updates on load balancing and new content on role-based access control and VLAN-aware virtual machines.
The Certified OpenStack Administrator exam: Why it matters for your career and how to pass it
Amy Marrich and Gianpietro Lavado offer tips for making the right moves.
How to deploy Windows on OpenStack
Fuga Cloud's Yuri Sijtema offers this tutorial.
Why Python is more popular than Kim Kardashian
Google searches for the open-source project outstripped those for the reality star in the last 12 months, according to The Economist.
How Red Hat and OpenShift navigate a hybrid cloud world
"We need to remember that open infrastructure is a non-zero sum game,” says Red Hat’s Mark McLoughlin.
Why dev-ops is still a hands-on job
A large global survey reveals a surprising amount of artisanal work.
How I design custom icons
The magic behind the OpenStack project logos.
How to set up container-based OpenStack with Open Virtual Network
This tutorial offers an overview of system architecture and troubleshoots some common issues.
Zuul case study: BMW
More testing in less time with faster development and integration are the main benefits, says Tobias Henkel.
Building new foundations: OpenInfra Days Korea
A number of use-cases were shared with OpenStack, Kubernetes and CI/CD.
Airship: Making life cycle management repeatable and predictable
A stem-to-stern rundown of what it is and what it can do for you.
The power of a moment: Making a difference through mentoring
Ell Marquez on asking for help and strengthening relationships.
Integrating Tungsten Fabric with OpenStack-Ansible
Tungsten Fabric and Contrail can replace and augment many of the networking components of a standard OpenStack cloud, James Denton offers this tutorial on how to stitch it together.
How to create an effective developer experience with Kubernetes
Tips on infrastructure, workflow and platforms.
How to get your talk accepted for the next OpenStack Summit
What's new and time-tested tips for the July 17 deadline.
Driving innovation through data: The Progressive Insurance journey
One of the largest car insurers in the country is powered by Kubernetes, OpenShift and OpenStack.
Revamping retail for the online age at Target
How the retailer is using OpenStack on a massive scale: 10,000 cores and 350,000 virtual machines in production.
The open source job market: Cloudy with no signs of containment, report says
Cloud computing and virtualization skills are king, with container know-how catching up, says the 2018 Open Source Jobs Report.
Why free software needs free tools
"Our contemporary free and open source software world’s continued reliance on proprietary tools and services suggests that we failed to learn from our experience with Linux and BitKeeper,” says Benjamin Mako Hill.
Project update: What’s next for Neutron
See what's new in the latest OpenStack release, and what you can expect to see from the project in the upcoming release.
Project update: What’s next for Cyborg
What's new, what's next and how to get involved.
How open source projects start, grow and flourish
Pros and cons for structuring projects, from a team at Mozilla.
Rebooting the OpenStack Mentorship program
What's new and how to get involved.
Integrating ONAP and MEF 3.0: A proof-of-concept
Talking with Datavision COO Mark Abolafia about the importance of ONAP and persuading service providers to embrace virtualization.
What’s next for OpenStack compute: Nova updates
Matt Riedemann and Melanie Witt talk about what's new in this release and what to expect from the next one.
Forecasting the future of cloud computing in China
"The acceptance of open-source technology is at a relatively high level in China," says researcher Fei Ma who also talks about containers, multi-cloud and more.
Latest gender diversity report highlights the importance of mentorship programs
Research establishes a baseline for diversity and inclusion, marking a starting point for insight into mentoring best practices.
Project update: What’s next for Kata Containers
The Kata Containers Architecture Committee talks about what they're working on and the roadmap for what's ahead.
Use cases, growing scale and open infrastructure at OpenStack Days Budapest
Lauren Sell reports on bitcoin infrastructure, innovation at CERN and Nokia's entry to the 100K core club.
Magical cloud native infrastructure with Kubicorn
Create, manage, snapshot and scale Kubernetes infrastructure in the public cloud with this unique open-source project.
Cracking the code: How a volunteer team translated 2.7 million words
Bringing open infrastructure to 32 languages around the world.
Operator spotlight: St. Photios Orthodox Theological Seminary
An inside look at a micro-installation of OpenStack at a California seminary: Three nodes and five or six instances at a time.
Dovetail: a new open-source test project for NFVI compliance validation
This project is responsible for the technical realization of the OPNFV Verified Program (OVP) and acts as a technical baseline for other compliance verification projects.
Meet Aptomi: An application delivery engine for Kubernetes
The open-source project simplifies roll out and operation of container-based applications on Kubernetes.
OpenStack Vancouver Summit recap: 40 things you need to know
From new users to product launches, updates and case studies, the OpenStack Summit Vancouver covered a lot of ground. Here’s a news roundup from the Summit.
Beyond data center cloud: The future of the OpenStack Foundation
Thierry Carrez on the strategic decisions that shape the path forward.
OpenStack Community Contributor Awards: Vancouver Summit edition
A lot of behind-the-scenes work goes on in the community--these awards put a medal on it.
OpenStack in production at CERN: Mysteries, challenges, setbacks and achievements
Researchers aren't the only ones trying to unravel a few sticky questions, says Arne Wiebalck.
Say hello to Kata Containers 1.0
The release merges Intel® Clear Containers and Hyper runV technologies to provide a single runtime for virtualized containers.
Zuul case study: GoDaddy
Clint Byrum on how they've replaced slow, brittle Jenkins jobs with highly parallelized, more realistic Zuul test jobs.
How OpenLab is using Zuul
"The benefit we see is the ease of integration with other projects," says Melvin Hillsman who works at Huawei on OpenLab.
Meeting the challenges of next-generation workloads: The OpenStack User Committee
Yih Leong Sun on multi-cloud, upcoming challenges for users and how you can get involved.
OpenStack billing: Meet CloudKitty
Superuser talks to Christophe Sauthier about CloudKitty the rating-as-a-service project.
How to start your journey to OpenStack deployment
Trilio's Katie Lyon walks you through what questions to ask and how to plan for the trasformative road ahead.
OpenStack upgrades on a massive scale: Inside Yahoo
"Upgrading from Juno to Ocata seems like climbing Everest, when in reality it’s more like walking up stairs," says Yahoo's James Penick.
Meet the newest members of the OpenStack Technical Committee
More on the seven new members of the TC.
Open source “critical” to UNICEF Innovation Labs
Avoiding vendor lock-in and replicable projects are two key reasons for choosing open source, says UNICEF Innovation's Erica Kochi.
Build your knowledge with “Containers in OpenStack” book
Superuser talked to authors about building your foundation, Kata containers and how to become a core reviewer.
Seeding the future of Extended Maintenance in OpenStack
Matt Riedemann walks you through the past, present and possible future of extended maintenance.
Return to the City of Glass: A guide to the Vancouver OpenStack Summit
Summit veteran Ben Silverman on scheduling, footwear and why staring out the windows of the conference center is a power move.
What’s next in CI/CD
Hear experts from Huawei, Ericsson, Mirantis, Cisco and more at OpenDev May 22-23, 2018 in Vancouver.
A million playbooks a month: Scaling Ansible Run Analysis
Red Hat's David Moreau Simard walks you through this "awesome" new feature.
Kubernetes and Keystone: An integration test passed with flying colors
Lingxian Kong, senior developer at Catalyst Cloud, offers this tutorial.
Why open is the future of public and private cloud
“Open allows for collaboration between public and private cloud, creating needed flexibility,” says Johan Christenson of City Network Hosting.
Get started with big data analytics
A tutorial for designing your extract, transform, load workflow with OpenStack Sahara.
An introduction to OpenStack fast forward upgrades
How to stay on the fast track with upstream features every six months or keep the course on a designated release, easing the upgrade treadmill.
How to set up notifications for OpenStack Monasca
Here's how to configure the monitoring and logging as-a-service solution to exchange information with Jira, Slack and HipChat.
How you can influence the next OpenStack Forum
Got pain points or pet projects? Deadline to propose sessions is April 15.
OpenStack community updates for new contributors
Kendall Nelson offers these updates on the contributor guide, Upstream Institute and more from the Project Teams Gathering.
Network Function Virtualization test results: Management and Orchestration solutions
Whitestack's Gianpietro Lavado reports that MANO solutions also passed recent tests by global experts.
What’s new at the Vancouver Summit
As the OSF focuses on open infrastructure, get ready to experience a new Summit.
How to develop a new Horizon dashboard without DevStack
With three basic steps, Trinh Nguyen shows how to get a Horizon dashboard on your laptop.
Pushing embedded devices closer to the edge
"AI and the cloud is old news - the future is in edge," says Lattice Semiconductor's Deepak Boppana.
OpenStack Community Contributor Awards now open for nominations
Nominate your unsung OpenStack heroes for the spotlight with the Community Contributor Awards.
Standards tests show that network functions virtualization has VIM
Some 95 percent of the 189 interoperability test sessions were successful, reports Gianpietro Lavado, a network solutions architect at Whitestack.
A close-up on the Queens release
Some common questions answered about the 17th edition of OpenStack.
Why cyborgs need free software
Implanted medical devices are more connected than ever. Karen Sandler says we should all have access to the software they run.
5G and the really smart self-driving car
SK telecom's most recent experiments show how low latency can improve safety.
Getting Network Function Virtualization ready for prime time: Inside the standards tests
Whitestack's Gianpietro Lavado reports on the latest series of tests held by global experts.
Inside CERN’s Open Data portal
The current amount of released data is more than 1,400 terabytes, here's what's behind it.
What you need to know about cloud edge computing
Use cases, challenges and how you can get involved.
For a happier open source community, give recognition
Focusing on negative feedback can lead contributors to frustration and burnout - here are ways to give thanks.
Keystone authentication for your Kubernetes cluster
How to use an existing OpenStack username and password to authenticate a Kubernetes cluster.
Taking the OpenStack ops manuals to the next level
Where there's a Wiki, there's a way says Canonical's David A. Desrosiers.
Intro to networking-vector packet processing
Get up to speed with this demo from Cisco's Jérôme Tollet at FOSDEM.
Making cities smarter with internet of things
How sensors and the data streaming from them are improving quality of life in the Italian city of Messina.
Operator spotlight: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
How OpenStack is powering research at BarcelonaTech.
Using JSON home on a Keystone server
Red Hat’s Adam Young offers this tutorial.
Looking ahead to the next version of Firewall-as-a-Service in OpenStack
The V2 version has been evolving, here’s what to expect.
Get started with “OpenStack Bootcamp”
Time for some basic training with this book.
Tips for contributing to OpenStack
OpenStack Foundation Community managers offer a ton of tips on moving forward.
Running an OpenStack cloud? Go to the next Operators Meetup
The Meetup, held in Tokyo March 7-8, is a chance for operators to share best practices and war stories.
Carnegie Mellon’s clear view on 5G cloudlets
Mark Shuttleworth from Canonical and Joseph Wang from Inwinstack talk about the new initiatives at Carnegie Mellon University around 5G and OpenStack.
New ways to build and test additions to OpenStack
CloudLab, OpenLab and the OpenStack Foundation team up to improve integration testing.
Challenges and battle scars from OpenStack deployments
It can be a struggle to deploy OpenStack in a large company like American Airlines, here are some strategies on how to win it.
Why hybrid cloud is the new black for an ad tech company
Global ad tech company Amobee partners with Platform9 and OpenStack.
How to get your talk accepted for the next OpenStack Summit
What's new and time-tested tips for the February 8 deadline.
New TripleO quick start cheatsheet
Carlos Camacho offers this guide to TripleO.
Tips for getting travel grants to OpenStack events
Key contributors can apply for travel, hotel and conference grants to attend the Project Team Gathering and the Vancouver Summit. Deadlines are January 25 (PTG) and March 22 (Summit).
Building the Middle East’s largest OpenStack-based public cloud
Talal AlBakr explains how a $38 billion telecom company in Saudi Arabia used OpenStack to create a massive public cloud.
Where to connect with OpenStack in 2018
Find OpenStack events near you this year to connect with the community.
OpenStack User Group Spotlight: Uganda
Organizer Diarmuid O Briain on the state of the current cloud and the promise of 5G.
Inside Kata Containers
James Kulina of Hyper.sh on taking the headache out of working in the cloud.
Resources for getting started with OpenStack
Looking to get started with OpenStack? Here are some of our most recent resources.
Kickstart your OpenStack know-how with these tutorials
Ready to get started or take it farther with OpenStack? Here are some of our most popular tutorials.
What you’re doing with OpenStack: Top user stories
Here are some of our favorite user stories from 2017 -- we want to tell yours, too.
Getting a clear view on multi-cloud
Some of our top resources on multi-cloud.
A year in containers: tutorials and user stories
It's been a busy year in the container world - here are some of Superuser's top stories and tutorials.
Looking closer at gender diversity in the OpenStack community
Intel and Bitergia collaborated to release the second version of the OpenStack community gender diversity report.
The skinny on edge computing
Edge was one of the hottest topics in cloud computing in 2017. Here are some of our top resources for ramping up your knowledge.
How to move a massive hyperscale insfrastructure to OpenStack
Oath's James Penick reminds us that migrating a massive hyperscale infrastructure to OpenStack is doable, but it does take time and some social strategies.
How the French government uses OpenStack
Two applications and 150 to come in the next five years.
Composing open source cloud technologies in the “wild”
One of the largest banks in the world, Australia's Commonwealth, uses OpenStack as the basis of its entire data management platform.
Rio de Janeiro hackers build smarter cities
Over 160 participants competed to create apps in the areas of accessibility, public health, childhood education, safety or mobility.
Pinterest’s journey from virtual machines to containers
“We were on the cloud since day one,” says Michael Benedict. "VMs served their purpose but we're moving everything to Kubernetes."
Travel grants support global community to attend OpenStack Summit
Key contributors attended the recent OpenStack Summit in Sydney. The deadline for Travel Support to the Vancouver Summit is March 22, 2018.
Making your first contact with OpenStack
Exploring OpenStack? This new group aims to help out. Here's where to find the First Contact Special Interest Group and how to get involved.
KubeCon scales up, sticks to script
News from the first day of keynotes: huge community growth and lots of projects to show for it.
Check out these OpenStack project updates
Project team leads share what's new and what's next in the development cycle.
Building out OpenStack’s integration engine
Meeting users needs through open infrastructure integration.
Working together: OpenStack and Kubernetes
This week at KubeCon North America, get plugged in to collaborative initiatives between the OpenStack and Kubernetes communities.
What’s next for OpenStack container orchestration: Magnum updates
Spyros Trigazis, the project team lead, offers these updates and a look ahead.
What’s next for OpenStack container networking: Kuryr updates
Antoni Segura Puimedon, project team lead, offers these updates and a preview of what's ahead.
What’s next for OpenStack compute: Nova updates
Matt Riedemann and Melanie Witt talk about what's new in this release and what to expect from the next one.
What’s next for OpenStack networking: Neutron updates
Project team leads Armando Migliaccio and Miguel Lavalle offered updates and insight into what's next.
Why atmail chose OpenStack for email-as-a-service
More than 15 percent of the Australian company's infrastructure runs on an OpenStack-powered DreamHost Cloud.
A book on OpenStack for the cloud challenged
Need to explain cloud to your client? "OpenStack for Dummies," a free ebook from vScaler, sets out to do just that.
OpenStack basics: An overview for the absolute beginner
Ben Silverman, author of "OpenStack for Architects," gets newbies started with OpenStack.
OpenStack Summit Sydney recap: 50 things you need to know
From new users to product launches, updates and demos, the OpenStack Summit Sydney was a race to the finish line. Here’s a news roundup from the Summit.
Get involved with the OpenStack Community Financial Services Team
Financial institutions count on OpenStack for a future of innovation.
How OpenStack powers genomics research
"We started using OpenStack because we saw the value of segregating hardware resources and the opportunity to isolate and simplify the infrastructure configuration," Manuel Sopena Ballesteros says.
OpenStack at the crossroads of cloud and high-performance computing
New case studies and research cloud federation are featured in version two.
How to build OpenStack on Kubernetes
How Workday uses Kubernetes to achieve zero downtime for large-scale production software-as-a-service.
Your passport to what’s next in OpenStack
Updates from the Sydney Summit keynotes.
Five users stories to catch at the Sydney Summit
Dozens of users will take the stage in Sydney to tell their stories about working with OpenStack. Catch them live or on video.
Spark your interest with OpenStack lightning talks
Talks on containers, NFV and best practices will keep you moving at the OpenStack Summit Sydney.
OpenStack Days Nordic 2017: On the move
About 250 people met in Copenhagen for this two-day event.
Meet the OpenStack Scientific Special Interest Group
How to get your science on at the Sydney Summit and beyond with the SIG.
OpenStack at Bloomberg
Chris Morgan, cloud services team leader, on disappearing documentation and upstreaming long-term support releases.
Meet the newest members of the OpenStack Technical Committee
More on the six new members of the TC.
OpenStack Project Teams Gathering: What gets done and why you should attend
Superuser talked to PTG attendees about their experience and looks ahead to the next one in Dublin, Ireland.
How to deploy multi-cloud serverless and Cloud Foundry APIs at scale
"Micro-services and APIs are products and we need to think about them that way," says IBM's Ken Parmelee.
OpenStack delivers services to thousands of Workday customers
The human resources leader deploys private clouds in every data center, with virtual machines (VMs) and bare metal.
The five most common OpenStack questions, answered
Aviv Lichtigstein of Loom Systems answers the most common questions he gets from newbies.
How to install the Openstack Horizon Dashboard
This brief tutorial from LearnIT Guide shows you how to get started.
How to get more involved with OpenStack
John Garbutt shares his thoughts on how to boost your involvement in the community.
How to deliver network services at the edge
Verizon’s Beth Cohen talks about the hard work and, yes, magic involved in edge computing.
How to upgrade to Pike using Kolla and Kayobe
A short guide from OpenStack Scientific Working Group co-chair Stig Telfer.
Kickstart your OpenStack skills with an Outreachy internship
These three-month internships are a great way for people from underrepresented groups to get started.
Navigating Kubernetes and edge computing
Some key takeaways from the working session at OpenDev.
OpenStack operator spotlight: Paddy Power Betfair
The Superuser Awards winner placing is betting on Kubernetes and bare metal.
What to expect from the upcoming OpenStack Forum
OpenStack community manager Tom Fifield answers your most common questions about the upcoming Forum.
Four ways to build open source community in your company
Takeaways from the recent Open Community Conference track at the Open Source Summit North America.
Building a collaborative community around open source
Community innovation and collaboration serve as the inspiration for the first Open Source Summit.
Interested in reading up on OpenStack? Check out these books
The OpenStack Marketplace now features a selection of books from the community...
How to rock dirty clouds done cheap
Veteran OpenStack community member Matthew Treinish takes you through his setup.
Collaboration and code beat hype and ego every time
The LAMP stack model sheds light on what’s next in open infrastructure.
How edge computing can take the pain out of daily life
From eldercare to taking the anguish from building Ikea furniture, one computer science pioneer outlines how edge computing will change our days for the better.
Not just a road: The computing history behind “Pike”
Take a ride through tech history with OpenStack's latest release.
OpenStack operator spotlight: Adobe Advertising Cloud
Adobe's Advertising cloud runs OpenStack in production across six data centers in the US, Europe and Asia says cloud platform manager Joseph Sandoval.
Getting started with OpenStack? Check out this cheat sheet
Common commands for services Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron and Cinder in a one-page guide.
Now’s the time to end the dev-ops culture clash
There's still a cultural difference between devs and ops, says OpenStack User Committee member Saverio Proto. Now's the time to improve it...
OpenStack operator spotlight: NTT
The Japanese telecom giant runs over 10,000 virtual machines, 1,000 hypervisors in eight regions. Two team members talk about what's next and the importance of testing.
How to deploy Manila in a multi-node Devstack environment
Dreamhost's Caleb Boylan shows how to set up a multi-node Devstack with Manila and Ceph as a storage back end.
OpenTracing project profile
As part of our ongoing series spotlighting open-source projects, a profile of OpenTracing and how you can get involved.
Looking to the future of edge computing
Edge computing is fast approaching -- here are two upcoming events where you can learn more and work with industry experts.
Updates from the OpenStack Ops Meetup
From containers to extreme testing, Melvin Hillsman reports on hot topics from the recent event in Mexico City.
Helping global community members participate, wherever they are
How Cinder’s “AV Club” saves the day.
Growing allies in the OpenStack community
Allies can dispel the closed-minded thinking that spawned the infamous Google memo, says Women of OpenStack member Amy Marrich. Here's how to get involved.
OpenStack Days Taiwan: The intersection of software and hardware
Internet of Things and edge computing dominated the content and conversations at OpenStack Days Taiwan in July.
OpenStack User Groups spotlight: Phoenix
Just don't call it the Silicon Desert: Ben Silverman tells us what's on the rise in Phoenix...
OpenStack operator spotlight: CERN
Belmiro Moreira, cloud architect, tells Superuser how the research center went from a few hundred nodes to 280,000 cores.
Learn OpenStack: A new community site
As he was teaching himself, Geoff Rich built a site called Learn OpenStack. Here's how it can help you...
How to build clusters for scientific applications-as-a-service
Insight into the world of SLURM-as-a-Service from OpenStack Scientific Working Group co-chair Stig Telfer.
Using NFS for OpenStack with Security-Enhanced Linux
Fabian Arrotin checks out a replacement for Gluster.
Pay it forward: Become an OpenStack mentor
Emily Hugenbruch on how to get involved now.
Creating an OpenStack Ironic deploy image with Buildroot
Chris Smart offers this tutorial.
How to make successful contributions to open source projects
Kendall Nelson and Ildiko Vancsa share thoughts on the secret sauce of contributions.
OpenStack User Groups spotlight: Canada
With an eye to the OpenStack Summit's return to Vancouver, we talk to Stacy Véronneau about what the landscape looks like in Canada.
What you need to know about OpenStack’s Scientific Working Group
If you're a researcher, here's how to get involved now.
Why Kubernetes, OpenStack and OPNFV are a match made in heaven
Now's the time to forge an even closer relationship between OpenStack, OPNFV and Kubernetes, says Ericsson's Chris Price.
Deploy Kubernetes on Openstack with Ansible
Saverio Proto of SWITCH offers up this tutorial.
How tech giant Tencent uses OpenStack
One of China's largest tech companies has been running OpenStack in production for 4 years with availability of over 99.99%.
Running an OpenStack cloud? Go to the next Operators Meetup
The Meetup, held August 9-10 in Mexico City, is a chance for operators to share best practices and war stories.
Looking ahead to OpenStack Days China
This year's event is expected to break a new record for attendance - here's the backstory on why OpenStack is hot in China right now and the challenges the community faces.
OpenStack Korea: Embracing the cloud universe
A highlight: a demo deploying OpenStack in just minutes with Amazon's Alexa.
OpenStack deployment with Kolla Ansible made easy
Get your cloud environment up and running on your lunch hour with this tutorial.
OpenStack Neutron: an NFV primer
An overview of Neutron for NFV from Rossella Sblendido, core reviewer, and the OpenStack Foundation's Ildikó Vancsa.
Gender diversity in the OpenStack community: A new report
The Intel-sponsored report adds new numbers to the valuable debate about inclusion in open source projects.
What you need to know about the upcoming OpenStack User Committee Elections
Active user contributors (AUCs) -- including operators, contributors, event organizers and working group members -- are invited to apply. Nominations open July 31 - August 11.
A simple way to create OpenStack Swift reports
Giuseppe Paterno' shares tip for getting basic Swift reports.
What’s new in K8s 1.7
Ihor Dvoretskyi, member of the Kubernetes team at Mirantis, walks you through the most important new features in Kubernetes 1.7.
Laying the groundwork for an OpenStack Contributor portal
Mike Perez, cross-project developer coordinator at the OpenStack Foundation, with a few ideas on how to make newcomers to OpenStack get started fast.
Travel Support program brings key OpenStack contributors to the Summit
40 people from 18 different countries to participated in OpenStack Summit Boston with these grants. The deadline to apply for Travel Support to the Sydney Summit is August 22.
Cross-community collaboration: strengthening ties with OPNFV
Together, OPNFV and OpenStack provide a comprehensive, innovative and constantly evolving set of NFV capabilities for end users, says Brandon Wick of The Linux Foundation.
OpenStack Cramming, Part I
Kickstart your OpenStack journey with these tips from Beverly Ibarrola of Award Solutions.
Catch these updates on OpenStack community goals, strategies
Alan Clark, Thierry Carrez, Chris Price and Mike Perez are some of the 26 interviews available now.
High availability of live migration with OpenStack: a report
The OpenStack Innovation Center (OSIC) benchmark tested live migration to find the best way to move forward with non-impacting cloud maintenance, here's what they found.
A quick tip for the young, ambitious developer
Catch the wave of knowledge by finding a mentor, says former Outreachy mentee and current mentor Nisha Yadav.
How to install Cloudify 4 on AWS and OpenStack
This tutorial will walk you through the basics of provisioning your AWS or OpenStack infrastructure.
What makes OpenStack relevant in a container-driven world
Containers align nicely with OpenStack, providing infrastructure, allowing them to share networking and storage with other types of computer resources in rich environments, says Thierry Carrez.
Certified OpenStack Administrator exam upgrades to Newton
The vendor-neutral certification offered by the OpenStack Foundation receives new features and upgrades as it reaches the 1,000 test taker mark.
How to craft a successful OpenStack Summit proposal
Inspiration, tips and a kick in the pants for the July 14 deadline.
Clearing up why fog computing is important
Superuser talks to Adrien Lebre, who co-chairs the OpenStack Fog, Edge and Distributed Computing Working Group.
Deploying OpenStack Designate with Kolla
Learn how to launch OpenStack Designate and test it using Kolla in this tutorial from OpenStack contributor Eduardo Gonzalez.
How OpenSwitch is democratizing the networking market
Superuser TV talks to OpenSwitch's Albert Fishman about opening the billion-dollar networking market to more than the "elite."
Containers are easy, running them in production is something else
“Running containers in production requires something more sophisticated," says David Aronchick, manager at Google Container Engine.
Takeaways from 1,000 deployments a day: Paddy Power Betfair
They key is training devs to make the most of a self-service model, says Steven Armstrong, principal DevOps automation engineer.
Inside the first OpenStack Forum
Tom Fifield, OpenStack community manager, talks to SuperuserTV about the benefits of combining developers and operators in a new OpenStack Summit component called the Forum, which replaced the Design Summit that took place during previous Summits. This new event removes the divide between developers and users, supporting more strategic conversations, such as how OpenStack engages with adjacent communities. […]
Reduce (complexity) and deploy: a strategic focus for OpenStack
Chris Price and Mike Perez discuss how they are working with adjacent technologies and on simplifying OpenStack.
Making containers work in a siloed company: the athenahealth story
Growing healthy container ops in a siloed company isn’t easy — but they are in fine form at athenahealth. Superuser TV talked to Ryan Wallner and Kevin Scheunemann, both on the technical staff of athenahealth, at the recent OpenStack Summit Boston on how they got there. How did you get started deploying OpenStack on containers? […]
OpenStack Queens release: let your voice be heard
Mike Perez talks community-wide goals for the Queens release and how you can get involved.
How OpenStack works with adjacent technologies
The Foundation's Mark Collier talks to SuperuserTV about how users are combining OpenStack with complementary projects to solve big problems.
OpenStack Days Melbourne: a tipping point in cloud technology
We're moving from first-generation cloud architecture to second-generation clouds integrating a variety of services and technologies, says OpenStack executive director Jonathan Bryce.
CoreOS Fest day two: project updates + solar flares
Project updates, Oracle’s community commitment and, yes, solar flares.
Why now’s the time for punk rock cloud infrastructure
At the third edition of CoreOS fest, breaking free of proprietary vendors, the $25 demo and Microsoft's Draft.
A quick take on edge computing
Got five minutes? Verizon's Beth Cohen breaks down the basics of edge computing in this Superuser TV interview.
Get up to speed with the OpenStack Upstream Institute
What’s new in the free training and how to sign up.
Deploying and redeploying OpenStack in a physical server
How to use command-line tool Snapper to redeploy OpenStack in this tutorial from Arun Kumar of CloudEnablers.
OpenStack Verizon case study: The illusion of infinite capacity
At the recent OpenStack Summit Boston, Billy Felton and Andrew Hendrickson of Verizon along with Sanjay Mishra CEO of Talligent offered a look into the platform, its architecture and what's next as they deal with the challenges of edge computing.
K8s or die: Skating into the future
There’s Kubernetes this way, that way — and then there’s the “skater way,” say Ryan Beisner and Marco Ceppi. Here's how they kick it, flip it and ride it home with OpenStack.
A checklist for securing OpenStack networking
Cisco's Naveen Joy offers this 10-point checklist for keeping your OpenStack network secure.
Why blockchains are good for the cloud, too
If you’re buying diamonds or an artist hoping to get paid fairly from Spotify, thank Hyperledger.
How to: Docker containerized OpenStack Heat Translator
Sahdev P. Zala and Eduardo Patrocinio from IBM show us how they created a Docker container using Heat-Translator.
My take on the first OpenStack Forum
From my first Forum session, it was clear these sessions would be highly informative and productive, says the OpenStack Foundation's Chris Hoge.
Check out the OpenStack project updates
Over 30 project update sessions -- from Ansible to Zaqar -- took place at the recent Summit Boston. Catch up with the videos.
OpenStack Boston Summit recap: 50+ things you need to know
From new users to product launches, updates and demos, the OpenStack Summit Boston hit it out of the park. Here's a news roundup from the Summit.
For Latin America, OpenStack’s time has come
30+ attendees from 14 countries met at the Boston Summit to discuss America Movil’s OpenStack strategy.
Why developers need to ask more questions
Asking shows we don’t know things and in the culture of rock stars and ninjas shows weakness... We can build a stronger, kinder community if we admit we’re vulnerable, says Saron Yitbarek of CodeNewbie.
OpenStack Community Contributor Awards recognize unsung heroes
These awards -a little informal and quirky- recognize the valuable work from the community.
Meet Mila, OpenStack’s youngest contributor
Mila Perez, six months old, is OpenStack's newest contributor. She offers words of encouragement for newbies.
Building a cloud-native future
"All science is now essentially computer science," says OpenStack Foundation COO Mark Collier. "It's a big responsibility and we've got to rise to the challenge" he told thousands of Stackers at the day-two keynote of the Summit Boston.
Delivering the 3Cs of OpenStack
Cost, compliance and capabilities are three of the qualities OpenStack users brought to the keynote stage for the first day of the Summit Boston.
Pushing the edges with OpenStack
Verizon's cloud-in-a-box offering based on OpenStack delivers computing to the edge -- and your local coffee shop.
Get a copy of “OpenStack Application Essentials”
This booklet by the Enterprise Working Group focuses on designing, migrating and deploying applications. It's available gratis online, print on demand or you can pick one up at the OpenStack Summit Boston.
StackCity comes to Fenway: all the details on the community party
Rain or shine, head to Fenway park on Tuesday at 7 p.m. for a night to remember.
Five reasons why Fenway Park will knock your socks off
Meet the Monster, grab a seat and get up close and personal with America's most beloved ballpark.
Spark your interest with OpenStack lightning talks
Talks on Kubernetes, security and best practices will keep you moving at the OpenStack Summit Boston.
Tips for non-native English speakers working on open source projects
Follow this guide to learn how you can navigate or help a non-native English speaker navigate the open source world.
How New Zealand’s SkyTv is building a next-generation TV and media platform
Jean-Pierre Senekal of New Zealand's leading TV provider gives Superuser a sneak peak into his talk at the OpenStack Summit.
OpenStack Summit veterans share their best tips for newbies
Why pacing yourself, packing business cards and buying a few beers is crucial
IPVS direct routing on top of OpenStack
Jan Klare from Cloudbau explains how an old-school technology can still be used as a load balancer in OpenStack.
7 steps to becoming a Certified OpenStack Administrator
Author Matthew Dorn offers a peek into his forthcoming Certified OpenStack Administrator Exam book.
Enterprise Working Group celebrates three years helping businesses with OpenStack
Three years, three books and plenty more to come.
How to get the most from your first OpenStack Forum
OpenStack community manager Tom Fifield on what to expect.
OpenStack User Survey shows wider adoption, larger clouds
Widespread adoption, maturity, growth with increased user interest in innovation and agility are some of the main findings in the 2017 User Survey.
Managing port level security in OpenStack
In certain cases, you may need to change how restrictive your port security is on OpenStack; in this tutorial, GBM's Nooruddin Abbas shows us how.
A beginner’s guide to attending an OpenStack Summit
Former OpenStack intern and current OpenStack contributor Nisha Yadav recounts her experience at the Barcelona Summit and provides some tips on how you can prep for Boston.
OpenStack works best when devs and operators tailor their workloads
Monica Rodriguez gives Superuser a sneak peak into her talks at OpenStack Boston.
In Nordic countries, OpenStack feels the snowball effect
Superuser talks to the organizer of the OpenStack Denmark User group about rapid adoption in the region.
Kuryr and Kubernetes will knock your socks off
Set up your own Kuryr-Kubernetes instance with this walkthrough form Red Hat's Doug Smith.
Help your boss understand your upstream project
How to get your upstream project approved by your higher-ups using this 10-step method from Sean Roberts of WalmartLabs.
5 OpenStack user sessions you can’t miss at the Boston Summit
The official schedule has over 300 sessions, so use this guide to find new, updated OpenStack case studies.
Let’s heat things up with Cinder and Heat
Nooruddin Abbas, solution architect at GBM, adds Cinder and Heat in the final part of this three-part OpenStack series.
How to balance corporate and community to build better open source
Code is the currency of the open-source realm but culture is king, says veteran community manager Jono Bacon.
Tips for surviving the OpenStack review process
Reviews aren't the end goal, but quality and modern code shipped on time is. Veteran Neutron contributor Ihar Hrachyshka on how to keep the end in mind.
Users need advocates to navigate the “cloudy” waters of open-source software
Melvin Hillsman of the OpenStack User Committee on advocating for users and living up to being the 'Linux of cloud computing.'
How to organize an OpenStack Operators Meetup
If you're interested in bringing a future OpenStack Operators Meetup to your town, Mariano Cunietti of Enter has a few tips.
Manage a multi-node Kubernetes deployment on a bare-metal cluster
This 12-minute demo shows you how to use OpenStack Ironic to manage a multi-node Kubernetes deployment on a bare-metal cluster.
Kubernetes 1.6: Made with stability in mind
Ihor Dvoretskyi, member of the Kubernetes team at Mirantis, walks you through the most important new features in Kubernetes 1.6.
Creature or feature? Here’s the story behind your favorite OpenStack project mascot
Discover your favorite project's mascot and the inspiration behind it.
China’s largest cable TV provider launches first private cloud with OpenStack
How Shanghai's Oriental Cable Network built a modularized, scalable and automated hosting platform without proprietary APIs thanks to OpenStack.
Automating OpenStack’s Gerrit commands with a CLI
Learn how to use a simple CLI to automate your Gerrit commands with this tutorial from OpenStack Trove PTL Amrith Kumar.
Moving OpenStack beyond borders (and possibly to Mars)
“I’d like to think that Martian life can be found with an OpenStack platform,” Rob McMahon of Red Hat told participants at the first OpenStack Days in Poland. Red Hat is currently working with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Open source management as a marathon, not a sprint
John Dickinson is one of the longest-running OpenStack project team leads. He talks about what's next for Swift and how he keeps going.
Getting to know the essential OpenStack components better
Nooruddin Abbas, solution architect from GBM, demonstrates how to get Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron and Horizon up and running in part two of this three-part series.
Pay it forward: Sign up for Speed Mentoring at the OpenStack Summit Boston
The program seeks 20 mentors with at least a year of OpenStack experience to offer technical or career guidance.
How a small team keeps Twitter’s Fail Whale at bay
Hundreds of teams running thousands of services on tens of thousands of hosts and in hundreds of thousands of containers are kept afloat by about 10 engineers, says Ian Downes, head of Twitter's compute team.
Exploring the OpenStack neighborhood: An offbeat install guide
Nooruddin Abbas, solution architect from GBM, gives you a tour of OpenStack in this three-part series.
Community leadership charts course for OpenStack
Over 40 community leaders met in Boston last week for strategic workshop to define goals and focus for 2017 and beyond.
Carrots and sticks in an open source community
Leadership is not management, says former project team lead Lana Brindley. She offers tips on motivating, incentivizing and not getting charred in flame wars.
How to set up your work environment to become an OpenStack developer
If you're a beginning OpenStack developer, contributor Nisha Yadav helps you get set up.
Containers are here to stay – until they’re not
Containers are the price of admission to the modern platform, says Google’s Kelsey Hightower, but they’re just the start.
How a research group avoids Franken-infrastructure with OpenStack
Bright Computing provides 43 compute nodes with 1,100 CPU to 30 research groups at the Van Andel Institute (VAI) with a hybrid solution of high-performance compute (HPC) grid and cluster computing and cloud computing.
How Kubernetes on OpenStack powers DreamHost’s new web builder
Don't call this a regular jam: Remixer is a click-to-edit website builder that blends Kubernetes and microservices.
Upcoming OpenStack Community Leadership Training
The second edition of this two-day training will be offered in April, here's how you can get involved.
Why open source is like a team sport
Collaborating on open source may involve a few bruises but everybody wins in the end, says OPNFV director Heather Kirksey.
Running an OpenStack cloud? Head to the Operators Meetup
The meetup, held March 15-16 in Milan, is a chance for operators to share best practices and share war stories.
Reflections on the first OpenStack Project Teams Gathering
Amrith Kumar, OpenStack Trove PTL, reflects on the inaugural PTG and shares what he hopes to see in future events.
How to disable NAT for IPv4
Shannon McFarland from Cisco Systems explains how to disable IPv4 NAT in this How-To guide.
OpenDaylight VTN Manager integration with OpenStack
How to manually configure your OpenStack environment to work with OpenDaylight VTN Manager
How the Open Networking Foundation pioneers innovation
Superuser talks to ONF’s Bill Snow about how the telcos play together and the upshot of the new Innovation Pipeline for XOS — a service management toolkit built on top of OpenStack.
Deploying Ironic in OpenStack Newton with TripleO
Enable Ironic in the Overcloud in a multi-controller deployment with TripleO or the director, a new feature introduced in Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.
Containers on the CERN Cloud
Hints and tips from the CERN OpenStack cloud team
Why commercial open source is like a voyage to mars: The Kubernetes story
Craig McLuckie and Sarah Novotny on how to navigate a trip to this harsh, beautiful place.
Security expert: open source must embrace working with the government or else
”We’ve had a special right to code the world as we see fit,” says Bruce Schneier. “My guess is that we’re going to lose this right...”
Getting started with Kolla
Try out OpenStack Kolla's production-ready containers with this tutorial by cloud engineer Saverio Proto with the first of this two-part tutorial.
What’s new in the world of OpenStack Ambassadors
Latest updates on our global program and how you can get involved.
From zero to hero: Your first week as an OpenStack contributor
The documentation project team lead (PTL) walks you through the basics.
CERN’S expanding cloud universe
Research center CERN to add 100,000 cores in six months with bare metal and other services to come.
User Committee Elections are live
Active user contributors (AUCs) -- including OpenStack operators, contributors, event organizers and working group members -- are invited to apply by February 10.
How to design and implement successful private clouds with OpenStack
A new book by Michael Solberg and Ben Silverman titled "OpenStack for Architects" can show you how.
Labs-based training and performance-based certifications are keys to solving IT training needs
Seeking an IT superhero? Try a new approach to training says the vice president of content at the Linux Academy.
Create an Open vSwitch STT tunnel between KVM and Hyper-V-hosted VMs
How to manually configure an Open vSwitch STT tunnel between VMs running on Hyper-V and KVM hosts.
The beginner’s guide to contributing upstream
Kendall Nelson shares the value, steps to contributing upstream and other ways you can get involved.
Meet OpenStack big tent projects Storlets and Tricircle
Storlets offers compute inside object storage service and Tricircle provides networking automation across Neutron in multi-region clouds.
A quick introduction to OpenStack Heat
Julio Villarreal Pelegrino from Red Hat gives a brief introduction to OpenStack Heat and demonstrates how to launch a basic template.
Open source first
“Be generous with computing resources, stingy with space and encourage the messy, creative stew that results,” says Sean Roberts of WalmartLabs.
Connect KVM and Hyper-V-hosted VMs using an Open vSwitch GRE Tunnel
Manually configure an Open vSwitch GRE tunnel between VMs running on Hyper-V and KVM hosts in part three of this four-part series.
How to create a new official OpenStack project
Thierry Carrez, director of engineering at the OpenStack Foundation, helps you avoid the most obvious traps on your way to becoming an official project.
Transitioning from OpenStack hobbyist to professional
Land your first OpenStack job with these tips on how to navigate OpenStack resources to solve problems, improve your functional understanding of OpenStack basics and more!
Enable native Neutron-based networking in Kubernetes with Kuryr
Ilya Chukhnakov and Antoni Segura Puimedon give a sneak peek on how Kuryr brings datacenter-ready OpenStack Neutron networking to Kubernetes.
Ready, set, code: Make your hackathon happen
OpenStack Hackathons are a fast and furious weekend of work that rewards the best projects with fantastic prizes, here's how you can plan one.
Deploying IPv6-only tenants with OpenStack
Shannon McFarland from Cisco Systems explains how to deploy IPv6-only Neutron networks.
How a small cloud team supports big ideas
Four people run an infrastructure with 13,184 vCPU and 64 TB of ram for science researchers at the University of Zurich.
OpenStack’s Stewardship Working Group and what it can do for you
Ever walked away from a code review or mailing list because of "sticky people problems?" The OpenStack Stewardship Working Group can help.
How to get a job working with OpenStack
Michael Apostol explains how candidates looking for jobs in OpenStack can increase their chances of landing one.
Manage Hyper-V on Open vSwitch: Yes, we can!
Alin Serdean from Cloudbase Solutions describes how to manually configure a VXLAN tunnel between VMs running on Hyper-V and KVM hosts in part two of this four-part series.
How Fujitsu powers ‘human-centric’ artificial intelligence
Docker, Cloud Foundry and OpenStack are behind the revolution.
Cloud Kindergarten preps students for OpenStack careers
Apprentices at Deutsche Telekom share how they got started with OpenStack.
Navigating OpenStack: community, release cycles and events
Get to know the OpenStack community, get on board with the release cycle and get the latest on OpenStack events
Why do we open source again?
The bumpy road to contribution and how to smooth it over from the OpenStack Foundation's Kendall Nelson.
Installing Open vSwitch 2.5 on Hyper-V in an OpenStack environment
Alin Serdean from Cloudbase Solutions shows you how to deploy Open vSwitch (OVS) on Hyper-V and integrate it with OpenStack in this four-part series.
How to find your first OpenStack job
Looking for an OpenStack job? Here's how to get started, fast.
OpenStack under the radar
Three important things you missed in 2016 that will shape the coming year.
OpenStack’s design evolution
A six-year itch to innovate brings new design.
NFV, IoT identified as leading OpenStack use cases for telecoms
Research from Heavy Reading highlights drivers for industry giants.
European public clouds take hold
Three public cloud providers talk federation, flexibility and the future.
Understanding Open vSwitch, an OpenStack SDN component
This tutorial covers the basics of OpenVSwitch.
How to take a leadership role in OpenStack
"OpenStack is great for people who want to make a difference," says Vitrage PTL Ifat Afek.
Sustainable investment in open source
Mark McLoughlin, a director of engineering from Red Hat, discusses how organizations can sustainably invest in OpenStack.
Forrester: It’s time to hit the road with OpenStack
A four-page brief on OpenStack's "global traction" charts a course for infrastructure and operations leaders.
11 benefits to running your containers on OpenStack
OpenStack provides the resources and services that container platforms and applications can rely upon, says Red Hat's Lars Herrmann
The future of OpenStack and Kubernetes
News from the recent Tectonic Summit on how Kubernetes and OpenStack are working together.
How to Pass the Certified OpenStack Administrator Exam
Learn how to pass the Certified OpenStack Administrator exam from OpenStack training experts.
OpenStack, HPC and public clouds: What’s on the horizon
Ildiko Vancsa talks to Mike Kelly of DataCentred about the challenges facing the "magicians" of high performance computing.
Enabling hacking extensions: The right way
If you want to submit a patch to fix one of these hacking issues, there's a right way, says Trove project team lead (PTL) Amrith Kumar.
How to become an OpenStack Active User Contributor
There are now eight ways you can earn AUC status for the next Summit, here's how.
How virtualized networks will save us from dropped calls
OPNFV and OpenStack demonstrate how new technologies in NFV can help minimize network disruptions.
See how your OpenStack deployment compares with this new analytics tool
New insights from the OpenStack User Survey are available with live analysis tool.
What do you think of a joint Kubernetes OpenStack environment?
Container schedulers promise to reduce operational complexity and improve interoperability, but there's much work left to be done says Rob Hirschfeld.
China puts money where the cloud is, ramps up OpenStack adoption
Increased investment, adoption signal strength of the local community.
Manage resources on AWS with OpenStack Omni
Madhura Maskasky introduces OpenStack Omni, a set of drivers to manage and control resources on AWS.
OpenStack gains momentum at Supercomputing 2016
SC16 highlights growing interest and enthusiasm around OpenStack.
How Globo.com scores big with OpenStack Swift
Cost savings and an active community act as big players in the move to go open source.
What’s new with OpenStack Upstream Training
Here's what you need to know about the free, two-day course offered before each Summit and select events.
Get to grips with the latest features of OpenStack with this book
The second edition of "Mastering OpenStack" offers expert tips on tweaking your deployments.
Science institute taps OpenStack to accelerate biodiversity research
Naturalis catalogs 37 million artifacts on a private cloud to reduce costs, boost productivity.
How to integrate Ceph with OpenStack
Keith Tenzer, Red Hat solutions architect, discusses why OpenStack and Ceph are an amazing team.
Combating red tape with OpenStack
Folksam partners with City Network, lowering costs and increasing flexibility and operational efficiency.
Inside the Certified OpenStack Administrator exam
Bridging the certification-to-ability gap.
OpenStack Innovation Center trains developers, debunks operational myths
Kenny Johnston and Melvin Hillsman discuss recent testing and training initiatives conducted by OSIC.
Evolving the OpenStack Design Summit
What are the Project Teams Gathering, Forum and who should attend.
OpenStack security spotlight
Your fuzzy ally, better reviews and more.
How developers from four continents delivered an OpenStack feature
Harnessing the power of open source, on a global scale.
OpenStack Community Contributor Awards recognize unsung heroes
A lot of behind-the-scenes work goes on in the community--these medals recognize those efforts.
Here’s the story behind the OpenStack pigeon
There's a graffiti artist pigeon named Milo at the Summit. Here's his story.
Mapping OpenStack’s place in a multi-cloud world
Jonathan Bryce, OpenStack Foundation executive director, gets out his compass.
How the global community does work that matters with OpenStack
OpenStack Foundation COO Mark Collier cuts cords, deploys containers and talks "Four Opens" on day one of the Summit keynote.
Five users stories to catch at the Barcelona Summit
Dozens of superusers will take the stage in Barcelona to tell their stories about working with OpenStack. Hear these tales from the trenches as presenters detail the evaluation process, advantages and challenges encountered along the way. Below is a sample of some of the great content found across tracks. SAP’s DevOps journey: From building an […]
What I’m looking forward to at the Barcelona Summit
OpenStack Board Member Edgar Magana on goals, sessions and emotions at the upcoming event.
OpenStack User Survey shows top insights, competitive advantages
Plus: Be your own data scientist with live survey analysis tool.
Cambridge University opens new horizons with software-defined telescope, bioinformatics research
The famed research institution adopts OpenStack for high-powered computing and research.
Dive deep into the Horizon framework
Cindy Lu, software engineer from IBM, explores the newest standards and features of OpenStack Horizon.
Walmart, Comcast, Bloomberg headline at OpenStack Days East
Enterprise use cases featured for sold-out crowd in New York City.
Meet OpenStack Firehose: Your source for consuming Infra messages
This new infra service provides a single place to go for consuming messages.
OpenStack jobs are growing — and there are plenty of seats at the table
Adoption by leading companies creates opportunities for developers, architects, sysadmins & engineers to earn a living with free software.
How to use OpenStack Cinder with Docker Swarm clusters
OpenStack contributor John Griffith explains how to consume Cinder resources from a Swarm Cluster in part two of this two-part series.
OpenStack Newton: A new landmark for open source
The community takes a tour of the latest OpenStack release, named after an historic home in Texas.
How to write a Nova filter scheduler for Trove
Matt Fischer breaks the rules and shows how to use Nova to schedule instances on Trove.
Inside WalmartLabs and its OpenStack core
Sean Roberts, director of technical management at WalmartLabs, shares what's next for his team.
When OpenStack fails, don’t blame the technology
Six reasons OpenStack can fail and a few solutions to make sure it doesn’t.
How to use OpenStack Cinder for Docker
OpenStack contributor John Griffith explains how to use Cinder as a storage for Docker in part one of this two-part series.
OpenStack Contributor Awards now open
Got an unsung hero? Nominate that person for recognition at the Barcelona Summit.
Considering OpenStack? A new book shows you how to get started
A new book offers common OpenStack Deployments with real-world examples for systems administrators and engineers.
OpenStack Day Nordic highlights local financial services, scientific users
The first event of its kind featured talks from CERN, Folksam, CityNetwork, Basefarm and more.
Update on OpenStack Gerrit-StoryBoard integration
OpenStack's task tracking system for cross-team projects and code review tool now play better together.
Update on API information in OpenStack
Anne Gentle, a member of the OpenStack Technical Committee who focuses on OpenStack strategic developer enablement at Cisco, fills you in on the latest changes in the API.
How to run a load-balanced service in Docker containers
This tutorial from Cloud&Heat shows you how to set up a load-balanced service deployed on Docker containers using OpenStack VMs.
Kickstart your cloud app coding skills
Community experts to offer labs at upcoming OpenStack Summit.
OpenStack Newton release: what’s next for Horizon, Ironic and Kolla
Meet the project team leads (PTLs) and find out how to get involved.
Healthcare application wins grand prize at Hackathon
Team Sensemaya's healthcare app takes top honors in Guadalajara, earning its team a trip to the OpenStack Summit in Barcelona.
Using Ansible 2.0 to launch a server on OpenStack
Michael Solberg, Red Hat chief architect, walks you through using the new Python Shade library modules to configure a simple playbook.
How to survive your first OpenStack Hackathon
Planning, power naps and a tent will get you through the weekend.
Meet OpenStack’s upstream developer advocate, Kendall Nelson
One of the Foundation's newest staffers weighs in on the Python debate and revamping Upstream University.
20 reasons why web hosting companies should embrace OpenStack
Adrian Andreias, CEO of Fleio, explains why he believes companies that aren't on board with OpenStack should be
Enabling vCPE with OpenStack – Create the networks
Bridging virtual and physical networks in the last of this three-part series.
Meet the “gardeners” of OpenStack, the requirements team
We talk to recently elected project team lead (PTL) Tony Breeds about "awesome tomatoes" and weeding.
Enabling vCPE with OpenStack: Prepping the VNFs
Create two Glance images with part two of this three-part tutorial.
Book aims to smooth out your “Path to Cloud”
Superuser's quick take on the 39-page OpenStack Foundation publication.
Git hooks for OpenStack development take the pain out of code commits
Developers can avoid rookie mistakes with this tool.
Enabling vCPE with OpenStack: Network configuration
Part one of this three-part tutorial on virtual Customer Premises Equipment covers network configuration.
How OpenStack makes Python better (and vice versa)
Better libraries and larger paychecks for contributors: how the two communities work together
App developers: here’s more on what OpenStack can do for you
What you can expect at the next Hackathon, Summit and how to get involved
OpenStack Days Mexico highlights growing interest
Local interest soars; looking ahead to the September OpenStack hackathon.
Using OpenStack Shade to interact with all your clouds
David Flanders and Bruno Morel offer a tutorial using Shade to connect clouds around the world in under an hour.
OpenStack-Salt for workflow management in private clouds
Project team lead Ales Komarek on what this project can do for you.
OpenStack Newton release: what’s next for Sahara and Telemetry
Meet the project team leads (PTLs) and find out how to get involved.
The benefits and approach to OpenStack cloud
Why AT&T is implementing OpenStack and how they are getting it done.
Prepping for the next OpenStack app dev hackathon
From zero to launch before lunch, Intel's Travis Broughton takes you behind the scenes at these free training sessions.
OpenStack Newton release: what’s next for Designate, Glance and Trove
Meet the project team leads (PTLs) and find out how to get involved.
OpenStack Days Silicon Valley 2016: unlocking infrastructure
The third edition of the two-day conference promises retail giants and “romance”
Scaling Magnum and Kubernetes: 2 million requests per second
The CERN OpenStack cloud team walks through how you can upgrade your Mitaka requests.
OpenStack Newton release: what’s next for Heat, Keystone and Kuryr
Meet the project team leads (PTLs) and find out how to get involved.
Northern Virginia User Group scales to embrace community interest
Although the NOVA User Group recently became official, it's already outgrown venues.
How large open source projects can develop for security
As OpenStack earns the Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) Best Practices Badge, we ask a security team member how it got so far, so fast
Finding OpenStack security issues with Bandit
How to use Bandit to find and prevent security defects in your OpenStack code
OpenStack Days Ireland zeroes in on networking
From containers to network functions virtualization (NFV), participants connected the dots at Dublin's first event.
How PubMatic saved millions by cloudhopping with OpenStack
This industry-leading marketing automation platform details the move to hybrid cloud.
New York OpenStack community celebrates two 6th birthdays this year
Only blizzards stop one of the oldest user groups from getting together.
South African OpenStack community hopes to spark technological revolution
Yusuf Rajah goes door-to-door to drum up interest in the cloud in Durban.
OpenStack Newton release: what’s next for Cinder, Neutron and Nova
Meet the project team leads (PTLs) and find out how to get involved.
How State Grid Corporation of China cuts IT costs, eludes vendor lock-in with OpenStack
The world’s largest electric company has recently realized the power of OpenStack and open-source technology.
Share your OpenStack startup playbook: UnitedStack
China's first OpenStack-based startup bridged a"huge gap" in the market to earn 8,000 registered customers.
Lenovo enlists OpenStack to support enterprise clients with business innovation
The company’s agile, flexible and scalable new enterprise cloud platform delivers fresh capabilities for business partners.
A brief guide to bug smashing in OpenStack Horizon
Adding new code is probably the least useful thing a new contributor can do, says Rob Cresswell, Project Team Lead (PTL). Here's how to help out by fixing or triaging bugs.
Making OpenStack Production Ready with Kubernetes and OpenStack-Salt – Part 2
Architecture, networking and the two-minute upgrade.
How JFE Steel Corporation forged an integrated data center with help from IBM Japan and OpenStack
The Japanese steel giant relies on OpenStack to maintain business continuity, ensure stability, and drive productivity.
Global OpenStack bug smash returns for Newton
The event returns to the United States, China and Ireland July 6-8 to hunt and fix bugs for the upcoming release.
Upgrading OpenStack in eight minutes
The first OpenStack Days in the Czech Republic got rolling with a speedy upgrade from Kilo to Liberty.
Making OpenStack production ready with Kubernetes and OpenStack-Salt – Part 1
Create a continuous DevOps workflow and containers build in this tutorial.
What OpenStack and rock climbing can teach you
Talking to startup founder Madhura Maskasky as part of our Women of OpenStack series.
Monitoring a multi-region cloud based on OpenStack
FIWARE Lab covers 15 regions spread across Europe and Latin America, serving 5,000 public IP addresses, over 1,500 users and 1,500 virtual machines.
OpenStack security, piece by piece
Part two of this Stratoscale tutorial addresses common vulnerabilities and what to do about them.
Getting from couch to OpenStack
Eric Wright, VMTurbo principal solutions engineer, takes you from zero to hero in about 40 minutes.
OpenStack Days Israel 2016: government adoption highlights local adoption, innovation
Record attendance for the seventh OpenStack Days Israel in Tel Aviv, which focused on local use cases and contributions, including a keynote from the Israeli Defense Intelligence.
Tighten the security of your OpenStack Clouds
A checklist for common threats from Stratoscale in this two-part tutorial.
Build it yourself: How a small team deployed OpenStack
DIY ethos meets robust solutions for small teams.
How service optimization keeps ViaSat flying
Satellite-based internet soars with OpenStack.
A better way to track reviews for Neutron
Why every day is now ReviewDay for OpenStack's most active project.
King of the hill? Discussing practical OpenStack interoperability
Rob Hirschfeld, CEO, co-founder of RackN and former DefCore committee leader, talks second-class citizens and hybrid infrastructure after a recent meetup.
Share your OpenStack startup playbook: Cloudbase Solutions
The Romania-based startup shares tips including finding a niche market, investing in passionate talent and attending the twice-annual OpenStack Summits.
Five years of cloud building: LivePerson’s Koby Holzer
The director of cloud engineering at the online messaging, marketing and analytics company talks DevOps, migration and more.
How OpenStack keeps World of Warplanes flying high
In this case study, G-Core and Mirantis outline the game plan for keeping the MMO running on four clouds.
Travel grants bring global community members to OpenStack Summit
Key contributors from 19 countries attended the recent OpenStack Summit in Austin. Find out how the Travel Support Program could be your ticket to Barcelona.
Where the present and future meet: OpenStack Day Israel
Sharone Zitman of Cloudify on the seventh edition of this global nexus.
Everything you need to know to get started with Neutron
In this tutorial, learn how to create multiple networks and subnets and then spawn multiple virtual machines across these networks and verify network connectivity for static IP addresses.
How Ancestry.com’s open source strategy combines Kubernetes and OpenStack
Scaling storage for more than 2 million users searching for their roots.
What’s in the cards for OpenStack
Three community members talk bigger, badder startups, fewer "experimental" deployments and more.
How Burton Snowboards is carving down the OpenStack trail
Agile on the slopes and OpenStack Swift in the data center.
How OpenStack public cloud + Cloud Foundry = a winning platform for telecoms
"OpenStack is the true enabler for rapid development and delivery," says Marcel Härry of Swisscom.
Resource management: How CERN makes the best use of OpenStack clouds
Insight for scientific organizations from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).
Oh, the places you’ll go with OpenStack!
With OpenStack in tow you'll go far -- be it your house, your bank, your city or your car.
Hate the taxes, not the online platform: HMRC’s journey with OpenStack
The award-winning UK government public cloud platform stands up to tax day, leaving people with the right things to complain about.
OpenStack and Kubernetes join forces for an Internet of Things platform
Jakub Pavlik, tcp cloud CTO, offers details on his presentation at the Austin Summit keynote.
Get to know the OpenStack Security Project
Learn about the mission of the OpenStack Security Project and how they're addressing issues among developers and operators.
Opportunities for OpenStack public clouds on the rise
Regional relationships, data sovereignty and vertical requirements push global adoption.
Myth-busting the cloud: Five common OpenStack questions answered
Lauren Sell, VP of marketing and community services, responds to the most frequent questions heard at the recent Austin Summit.
Embracing data center diversity with OpenStack
Bridge the gap between traditional and cloud workloads, says executive director Jonathan Bryce.
OpenStack scientific working group launches at OpenStack Summit Austin
Stig Telfer and Blair Bethwaite discuss the priorities for Barcelona coming out of the working group's first meeting and where community members can learn more and hear updates.
Use cases identified for building applications on OpenStack
David Flanders and Craig Peters explore the different ways applications can be built on top of OpenStack, including containers.
OpenStack Community Contributor Awards recognize unsung heroes
A lot of behind-the-scenes work goes on in the community--the first edition of these awards put a medal on it.
Creating a smart conference with OpenStack and containers
Jakub Pavlik, CTO at tcp cloud outlines how the Smart City project measures temperature using OpenStack, Kubernetes and OpenContrail and how it was incorporated into the Austin Summit.
How Cambridge University and Monash University leverage OpenStack for high-performance computing
Stig Telfer and Blair Bethwaite talk HPC and the new OpenStack Scientific Research Working Group with Superuser TV.
Get an insider’s look into Workday’s OpenStack deployment and contributions
Edgar Magana, cloud operations architect at Workday and member of the OpenStack User Committee, talks about Workday's cloud ops and its team's contributions to OpenStack.
Collaborate or die: why no tech company is too big to fail
Mark Collier, OpenStack Foundation COO, lays it on the line in day two of the Summit keynote. Also, smart cities, even smarter scientists and the next Hackathon.
Women of OpenStack mentoring program launches at Austin Summit
With 66 matches already, the mentoring program launched by the Women of OpenStack is already off to a great start.
Make data center diversity work for you with OpenStack
News flash: Bimodal IT doesn't have to be a nightmare. Also, AT&T grabs the Superuser award and a vodka-drinking bear took the stage on day one of the keynotes.
Top four user talks at the OpenStack Austin Summit
Unsure which talks to pick at the upcoming conference? We've got you covered.
How to get the most from your first Design Summit
These are the most interactive sessions at the Summit, here's how to make them productive.
OpenStack Magnum on the CERN production cloud
Providing 2,000 users a self-service cloud that stands up to “extreme computing.”
Is Dope’n’Stack returning?
Superuser investigates rumors on the cloudy technopop duo.
OpenStack User Survey 2016: Key findings
Superuser's TL/DR take on the 60-page report.
The unique nature of the OpenStack Summit
Anne Gentle has attended Summits since the Bexar release, here are her tips for surviving and thriving the week.
OpenStack user story: the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN)
"Cooperation is our greatest tool," says a team behind some of the world's cutting-edge physics research.
Women of OpenStack mentoring program: a match made in the cloud
It's waiting-list only for the speed mentor event at the Austin Summit; there are still plenty of ways to get involved at the Summit and beyond...
How to architect applications for the cloud: an OpenStack primer
This 40-minute beginner session at the Austin Summit will kickstart your knowledge.
Open Daylight integration with OpenStack: a tutorial
How to deploy OpenDaylight and integrate it with OpenStack to address use cases specific to networking infrastructure.
OpenStack for NFV applications: enabling Single Root I/O virtualization and PCI-Passthrough
Ramon Acedo helps you discover these key functions.
Troubleshooting OpenStack: a new book shows you how
Tony Campbell, director of training and certification at Rackspace, guides you through the sticky spots.
Share your OpenStack startup playbook: Talligent
Talligent shares its secrets to being a successful startup including why sponsoring the Summit is important and how startups can find their value in the ecosystem.
The API Working Group is on a mission for a better experience for OpenStack users
Heeding the call to eliminate head-scratchers for developers and operators.
KakaoTalk speaks volumes about the future of cloud services
The insanely popular messaging service runs 5,000 virtual machines on OpenStack.
How to use Terraform to deploy OpenStack workloads
Stratoscale's Ronit Eliav walks you through using this open source tool.
Stretching the elastic cloud: Evolving OpenStack for scale
Updates from the award-winning team at Comcast on community milestones and contributions.
First official OpenStack Hackathon strikes a chord
38 teams competed for a grand prize trip to the Austin Summit - your local user group could be next.
Serve up your OpenStack storage with the “Ceph Cookbook”
This new book provides recipes for designing, implementing and managing the software-designed storage system used by CERN.
OpenStack operators voice key takeaways, updates from Manchester mid-cycle
Heidi Joy Tretheway and Shamail Tahir talked to OpenStack Ops Mid-Cycle attendees about project updates, top bugs and new community initiatives.
Help improve the OpenStack Swift operations runbook
Recently launched, it covers configuration, server maintenance and troubleshooting.
Using Ansible for continuous integration on OpenStack
Michael Solberg, chief field architect at Red Hat, gets you set up and keeps you running in this tutorial.
A primer on Open Platform for Network Function Virtualization (OPNFV) software-defined networks for OpenStack
What you need to know about the latest release -- Brahmaputra -- from consultant Iben Rodriguez.
What’s new under the OpenStack big tent: Tacker
Learn more about the orchestration project and how you can get involved.
Refining a cloud compute service: Why we replaced VMware NSX with Astara’s open source solution
DreamHost's Jonathan LaCour on the benefits of this "more open, less magic" approach
The OpenStack Summit Austin unveils new content, events, training
More tracks and double the workshops await Stackers in the live music capital of the world from April 25-29
Women of OpenStack launches new mentoring program
The new program aims to provide technical or career guidance, says IBM's Emily Hugenbruch.
What’s new under the OpenStack big tent: Dragonflow and Kuryr
Learn more about these projects and how you can get involved.
Tenant networks vs. provider networks in the private cloud context
Alain Swanson of Wells Fargo explains why shared provider networks are a good fit for private clouds.
Why the discovery process is the OpenStack cloud architect’s best friend
Follow these steps to design an enterprise cloud, say two Red Hat experts, and your days will be brighter
How OpenStack can ride the wave of cloud adoption in South America
With 100 percent growth in the community in Brazil, Ambassador Marcelo Dieder expects the boom to continue in the region for 2016-2017.
Working together to move mountains at the OpenStack Summit
Talking in person at design sessions makes OpenStack developers more efficient, says Marek Denis, CERN openlab research fellow.
Meet OpenStack indivudual director Shane Wang
"Enterprise readiness is one of the best approaches to increase adoption for OpenStack, it's where OpenStack can grow fast," says Wang, an engineering manager at Intel.
OpenStack Keystone: common questions answered
Red Hat's Adam Young fields questions about the tokens, use cases and the philosophy behind the identity service project.
Check out Zanata, a tool to get OpenStack speaking your language
This open-source tool makes it easier to translate your projects.
Looking to OpenStack’s future in Europe
Following the first Operator's Mid-Cycle Ops Meetup held here, thoughts on how the large research community and data sovereignty issues influence adoption on the old continent.
OpenStack upgrading tutorial: 11 pitfalls and solutions
This post contributed by Stratoscale helps you navigate common problems.
Takeaways from the OpenStack Mid-Cycle Ops Meetup: first time’s the charm
The first European event welcomed many newcomers; networking and sharing solutions were the big plusses.
Mastering containers with OpenStack: a white paper
As containers gain major ground, a report from the OpenStack Foundation highlights how to succeed with them. Catch up with us at Container World and hear about the latest deployments with Kubernetes.
Smoothing over common OpenStack pain points for operators
Attendees at the first European Operator’s Meetup talked pet peeves - and shared resources for fixing them.
OpenStack First App Guide: now with revamped Orchestration
Software developer Martin Paulo shares his Heat templates to get you started.
Kubernetes and OpenStack multi-cloud networking
Here's the first insight into usage of real bare metal Kubernetes clusters for application workloads from a networking point of view.
How to deploy a Docker cluster with OpenStack Heat
This post focuses on an orchestration package for delivering a working Docker Cluster that leverages external storage from OpenStack Cinder.
What’s new under the OpenStack big tent: Fuel
Meet project team lead Dmitry Borodaenko and learn how to get involved.
Keep your OpenStack projects on track with StoryBoard
This task tracking system will get your trains running on time.
How OpenStack is helping SK Telecom roll out the next 5G LTE network
As part of our focus on innovation, we talk to project manager Jaesuk Ahn about OpenStack's role in the mobile giant's software-defined approach.
Women of OpenStack: Meet Comcast’s Holly Bazemore
"Change what you can change, influence what you can influence, and let go of the rest," is the motto of this director of elastic cloud strategy and deployments.
Meet the OpenStack Ambassadors: Marton Kiss
Superuser talks to Marton Kiss, an OpenStack Ambassador based in Budapest and general manager, Europe at Aptira.
OpenStack keeps the buzz going at FOSDEM ’16
A packed booth kept tireless volunteers busy all weekend at the 2016 Free Open Source Developers’ European Meeting.
OpenStack in production: CERN’s cloud in Kilo
As the Large Hadron Collider runs day and night, these upgrades were done while the cloud was running and virtual machines were untouched.
Setting up OpenStack Trove to use secured sockets layer: Enabling and troubleshooting
Trove, OpenStack's database-as-a-service, provides database provisioning and life cycle management capabilities. In the final tutorial of this three-part series, Tesora's Amrith Kumar helps you troubleshoot.
Contemplating OpenStack in 2016
Shamail Tahir talks to Randy Bias of EMC and Boris Renski of Mirantis about where they see OpenStack going in 2016.
Takeaways from the OpenStack Mitaka Mid-cycle Security Meetup
Breakfast tacos, Bandit and the "most stealthy" project experts worked on.
High-performance computing lands leading role on the OpenStack stage
Get involved with efforts to create a system that pairs high performance with the flexibility of cloud.
Meet OpenStack’s community wrangler, David Flanders
Get to know the guy we call "Flanders" (yep, you can call him that, too) and why he thinks OpenStack is the next-generation open community.
Ceilometer gets major performance boost
Community teamwork improved CPU usage by 70 percent on OpenStack's data collection service, reports Julien Danjou, principle software engineer at Red Hat.
Setting up OpenStack Trove to use secured sockets layer: Authenticating with Keystone
Trove, OpenStack's database-as-a-service, provides database provisioning and life cycle management capabilities. In part two of this three-part series, Tesora's Amrith Kumar walks you through authentication.
Meet Bandit, an OpenStack tool that can sniff out security issues
Use this stand-alone tool to ferret out security flaws in your Python code
Share your OpenStack playbook: Midokura
Midokura opens its startup playbook, highlighting the importance of collaboration in the ecosystem and offering tips for fellow startups.
BillingServ guarantees 100 percent uptime for small businesses seeking reliable cloud-based billing services
OpenStack-Powered DreamCompute enables this international software-as-a-service provider to keep its promises and get the bills in on time.
Fast and furious: Inside China’s startup scene
How EasyStack and 99Cloud are scaling new heights far from Silicon Valley.
Setting up OpenStack Trove to use secured sockets layer
Trove, OpenStack's Database-as-a-Service, provides database provisioning and lifecycle management capabilities. In this three-part series, Tesora's Amrith Kumar describes how to configure and operate Trove.
Okinawa OpenStack Ops Workshop rides wave of interest
OpenStack operators from the region met during Okinawa Open Days to share insights
Making strides to boost diversity in OpenStack
The OpenStack Foundation moves forward with internships, conferences and more.
How to land a successful OpenStack Summit talk
Beth Cohen, cloud networking product manager at Verizon, outlines updates for the Austin Summit speaking submission process and tips to get your talk in by the February 1 deadline.
Moving from monolith to microservices: Lithium Technologies shares its hybrid-cloud strategy
Cloud platform engineering team lead Lachlan Evenson shares insights and resources.
Swift deployment with OpenStack Keystone authentication
Alena Holanova of tcp cloud goes on a mission to test Swift with her company's cloud - here are her tips.
Running an OpenStack cloud? Come to the first European Mid-Cycle Operators meetup
The meetup, held February 15 - 16, 2016 in Manchester, is a chance for operators to share best practices and give feedback.
OpenStack operators connecting together
To make meetups more productive and useful, Edgar Magana at Workday proposes smaller, operator-focused gatherings.
The keys to OpenStack startup success: Platform9 Systems
Platform9 Systems opens its startup playbook, highlighting ecosystem challenges and tips for fellow startups including how they differentiate their product from competitors with simplicity, choice and interoperability.
Provisioning Neutron networks with the NSX-v Plugin
This series explores working with OpenStack Neutron in conjunction with the NSX for vSphere (NSX-v) plugin. The first article focuses on how to provision different types of Neutron networks.
Travel grants bring global community members to OpenStack Summit
Key contributors from 15 countries attended the recent OpenStack Summit in Tokyo. The program for Austin is doubling - find out more about the Travel Support Program.
OpenStack Mitaka release: what’s next for Neutron, Cinder and Ceilometer
Meet the project team leads (PTLs) and find out how to get involved.
OpenStack design contest T-shirts are now available!
Joline Buscemi won the third edition of the community T-shirt design contest, held annually by the OpenStack Foundation.
Check out this tool library for OpenStack operators
These tools - contributed by and for operators - offer quick solutions to streamline your work
OpenStack Mitaka release: what’s next for Nova, Kuryr
Meet the project team leads (PTLs) and find out how to get involved.
OpenStack Glance, Murano, Community App catalog: links in a chain
Mirantis engineer Alexander Tivelkov offers his takeaways from behind the scenes at the recent Summit Tokyo.
Why no data center should be full of islands
OpenStack connects developers with new tools while leveraging a common foundation, says Foundation COO Mark Collier.
Benchmarking Gnocchi for fun and profit
Red Hat's Julien Danjou clocks the speed of time series database-as-a-service Gnocchi.
How to manage medical and health data with OpenStack, a wearable sensor and smart apps
“Our hope is to inspire you to look into open source, to think of ways to solve the data problems that you might have already," says Anne Gentle of Rackspace.
Upgrades in Nova: Database Migrations
This is a part of a series of posts on the details of how Nova supports live upgrades. This post focuses on how to do database schema changes with minimal disruption to the rest of the deployment, and with minimal downtime.
Powering one billion page views and 170 million unique visitors per month with OpenStack
NTT Resonant operates goo, one of Japan’s leading web portals and Internet search engines
OpenStack Mitaka release: what’s next for OpenStackClient and Documentation
Meet the project team leads (PTLs) and find out how to get involved.
Connect the dots on OpenStack Neutron with this updated manual
The second edition of "Learning OpenStack Networking" includes new chapters to help newbie cloud operators and administrators build OpenStack clouds.
OpenStack and OPNFV strengthen collaboration for telcos
Kathy Cacciatore, OpenStack Foundation consulting marketing manager, reports from the first OPNFV Summit.
Upgrades in OpenStack Nova: Objects
This is a part of a series of posts on the details of how Nova supports live upgrades. This post focuses on providing a versioned RPC and database-independent facade for our data.
A primer on Magnum, OpenStack containers-as-a-service
Adrian Otto, project team lead, on how Magnum works and what problems it can solve for you.
OpenStack Mitaka release: what’s next for Ansible, Oslo and Designate
Meet the project team leads (PTLs) for these OpenStack projects and find out how to get involved.
Two OpenStack operators share their latest action items
Migrations, upgrades and tweaks: these Time Warner Cable operators unpack what they learned at the Summit Tokyo and what's next.
Upgrades in OpenStack Nova: Remote Procedure Call APIs
This is a part of a series outlining how Nova, OpenStack's compute component, supports live upgrades. This post focuses on versioning and handling compatibility in your RPC APIs, a baseline requirement for supporting environments with mixed versions.
OpenStack Mitaka release: what’s next for Swift and Ironic
Meet the project team leads (PTLs) for these OpenStack projects and find out how to get involved.
OpenStack and Network Function Virtualization, the backstory
Jonathan Bryce, OpenStack executive director, gave a keynote at the OPNFV Summit where he talked about the two communities.
Fighting cloud vendor lock-in, manga style
To celebrate the OpenStack community and Liberty release, the Cloudbase Solutions team created a one-of-a-kind printed comic packed with OpenStack puns and references to manga and kaiju literature.
Kilowatts for Humanity harnesses the wind and sun to electrify rural communities
OpenStack-powered DreamCompute cloud computing helps keep rural microgrids up and running
Local users steal the spotlight at OpenStack Day Benelux
With 29 percent growth in 2015, the Amsterdam-based conference is gaining traction, attracting four local OpenStack users to share their use cases.
OpenStack user survey findings emphasize project maturity
Heidi Joy Tretheway, senior marketing manager at the OpenStack Foundation, shares how the results of the latest user survey will be used in the community and significant highlights, including how the number of production deployments doubled in the latest report.
What you need to know about Dragonflow for the OpenStack Liberty release
An overview of the software-defined networking based Distributed Virtual Router for OpenStack from Gal Sagie at Huawei.
The OpenStack Product Working Group: transforming operators’ burning issues into actionable insights
Shamail Tahir, an offering manager for OpenStack initiatives at IBM and Carol Barrett, a member of the data center planning team at Intel, dive into the process of collecting operator feedback and creating meaningful user stories to move the OpenStack project forward.
Eliminating “Not-Invented-Here” Syndrome
Why embracing this notion is the key to unlock an open data center infrastructure, according to Boris Renski, the co-founder and CMO of Mirantis.
A block storage battle and mobile eats the world
OpenStack Summit Tokyo attendees had plenty to say about what they are taking away from the recent four-day conference...
Why OpenStack Neutron just grabbed center stage
Day two of the Tokyo Summit keynotes: Rackspace launches Carina, containers a 10-year-old can deploy and, oh yeah, glow sticks
DefCore: Defining the interoperability standard for OpenStack
Chris Hoge, interoperability engineer at the OpenStack Foundation and Mark Voelker, OpenStack architect at VMware join Superuser TV to explain DefCore's missions, progress and how to get involved.
Identifying challenges and benefits of being a startup in the OpenStack ecosystem
Roopak Parikh, co-founder & head of engineering at Platform9 Systems shares with SuperuserTV his company's origin story and the pros and cons of being a startup in the community.
OpenStack Documentation: Why it’s important and how you can contribute
Anne Gentle, principal engineer at Rackspace and Lana Brindley, OpenStack Documentation PTL sat down with Superuser TV to discuss why Docs is important for the user community, the latest metrics from the Liberty release and how you can get involved.
Finding your way around OpenStack: professional certification and the project navigator
The first news out of the Summit Tokyo plus containers, crocs and the winner of the Superuser award
October 2015 user survey highlights increasing maturity of OpenStack deployments
60 percent of deployments in production and high rates of adoption of OpenStack’s core services are key findings from the report released by the User Committee.
Whipping up a frenzy in the cloud
Never a dull moment: sunsets, spin outs, releases, cash injections and more in this week's roundup.
Breaking down the Tokyo Summit for OpenStack operators
Tom Fifield, community manager at the OpenStack Foundation, shares what to expect from next week's ops sessions and where to find them on the summit schedule
Unlock OpenStack Keystone with this new book
How to snag a free copy of the manual by three IBM OpenStack pros at the Summit Tokyo…
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the OpenStack Summit Tokyo
First rule of navigating this huge conference? Don't panic! Gal Sagie, software developer at Huawei, offers these tips for survival and fun.
Testing the limits of the cloud
Keeping an eye on cloud risks, OpenStack training the CERN way and industry shifts a go-go in our weekly roundup.
OpenStack Liberty: a primer on what’s new
Liberty, the 12th OpenStack release, is due on October 15. Here are 53 new things, ranging from NFV to security and improved performance...
Success bot helps share your happy moments in the OpenStack community
Record your 'little moments of joy and progress' and share them
Break down those silos, OpenStack
"The projects need to come together to develop consistent formats, approaches and messaging," says Rochelle Grober, senior software architect at Huawei Technologies and active member of the OpenStack community.
OpenStack and Open vSwitch: from bitter love to happily-ever-after
Why there are more twists than a rom-com between OpenStack and Open vSwitch, upcoming training and how Rackspace's Amazon Web Services support may equal more jobs in this week's round up.
An OpenStack security primer
Meet the troubleshooters and firefighters of the OpenStack Security project and how you can get involved.
Why OpenStack needs to work on its core
Spinning plates, core work and Mirantis ships 7.0 in this week's roundup.
Hack hack hack the way to your first OpenStack patch
Augustina Ragwitz, senior OpenStack deployment engineer at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, shares the experience of writing, submitting, and debugging her first patch.
Using Docker Machine with OpenStack
By combining Docker Machine and OpenStack, you create a nice “consumer/provider” relationship between OpenStack and Docker, says VMware's Scott Lowe in this tutorial.
Running on retreads? OpenStack provides the platform for innovation
New OpenStack training classes, Red Hat's bottom line and more in this week's roundup.
OpenStack Day Benelux 2015
As attendance increased by 19 percent over the previous year, locals consider next steps in OpenStack adoption.
This trove of user stories highlights what people want in OpenStack
The Product Working Group recently launched a Git repository to collect requirements ranging from encrypted storage to rolling upgrades.
How storage works in containers
Nick Gerasimatos, senior director of cloud services engineering at FICO, dives into the lack of persistent storage with containers and how Docker volumes and data containers provide a fix.
Tracking the OpenStack revolution
Is OpenStack ready for prime time (again), part of a revolution or limping along? Pundits weigh in on this and more in this week's roundup.
Confused about the OpenStack release cycle? Check out this handy chart
Release manager Thierry Carrez admits that matching cycle names to versions is “non-trivial.”
Bringing NFV into OpenStack with Tacker
Madhu Kashyap, senior product manager at Brocade, offers this update on Tacker, a project to develop a general-purpose network functions virtualization orchestrator.
A starter guide to DefCore, OpenStack’s interoperability project
DefCore defines capabilities, code and must-pass tests, creating the minimum standards for products labeled OpenStack.
How to migrate from VMware and Hyper-V to OpenStack
If this sounds like a beast of a move, technical solutions architect Nathan Portegijs has you covered with this step-by-step tutorial.
Why OpenStack needs to keep it simple
Pundits say complexity and a "science project" reputation hinder OpenStack adoption and more in this week's recap.
Getting Hyper-V and OpenStack set up quickly
Ben Armstrong, principal program manager on the core virtualization team at Microsoft, gets you up and running in about an hour -- coffee break included.
Why you should take TryStack for a spin now
The free OpenStack testing sandbox is back -- and it's bigger, badder and better than ever.
How to monitor OpenStack deployments with Docker, Graphite, Grafana, collectd and Chef
IBM's Boris Kuschel offers this in-depth tutorial that will get all your signs saying yes.
What’s behind the second wave of cloud adoption
The forces behind that new wave, VMware's orbit and a quest for OpenStack instructors in our weekly roundup.
OpenStack Day Seattle tackles enterprise adoption and diversity
More than 150 attendees gathered to hear from users, including FICO and eBay Inc.
Project Kuryr brings container networking to OpenStack Neutron
Gal Sagie, an open source software architect at Huawei, introduces project Kuryr, the platform between Docker and Neutron.
The latest edition of the “OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook” offers updated recipes
Authors Kevin Jackson, Cody Bunch and Egle Sigle launch an Easter egg challenge and talk about common misconceptions and the role of the new OpenStack Innovation Center.
Why bridging the OpenStack skills gap is critical
The job market, the death of the distro and the importance of OpenStack's common culture in our weekend roundup.
OpenStack Silicon Valley zeroes in on containers
The second annual event welcomed thought leaders and users this week to discuss the current state of containers and predict what's next
OpenStack Taiwan Day: rapid growth ahead
The most anticipated local tech event of the year, as told by Joanna Huang, general manager of Aptira, an OpenStack Foundation Gold Member.
Dive in deep with a new book dedicated to Trove
Ahead of Trove Day, the authors of the first book on OpenStack's database-as-a-service talk about common errors and getting started with contributions.
Get the latest message on OpenStack’s Zaqar service
Flavio Percoco, project team lead of OpenStack's multi-tenant cloud messaging service for web developers, offers updates on improvements in deployment, storage and support.
Make your cloud sing with OpenStack’s Community App Catalog
The Catalog can get you rocking with containers in just a few clicks - how it's evolving and how your feedback can shape its future.
Getting hands-on with OpenStack
In-tree integration testing with Neutron, deploying Kilo with Puppet, getting started with CoreOS and more in our weekly roundup...
Jumpstart your OpenStack know-how with Upstream Training
Join experts for this free, fast-track course that combines work with play.
What you need to know about tags in OpenStack
This simple metadata system is great way to navigate OpenStack. Here's how they work and how to contribute new ones.
OpenStack: love it or hate it?
How your staff dictates your relationship to OpenStack, what it takes to become an expert and the latest in job moves in our weekly update...
Ceilometer, Gnocchi and Aodh: Liberty progress
What you need to know about updates to OpenStack's telemetry service from Julien Danjou, principle software engineer at Red Hat.
Forrester says: ready, set, OpenStack!
Need backup to get OpenStack firing all cylinders where you work? Here are two Forrester reports to get you on the right track.
Inside the hive: the latest OpenStack Community Activity Report
From April to June 2015, there's been an uptick in active core reviewers.
Why the structure of open-source foundations matters
Hewlett-Packard goes shopping, Intel and Rackspace join forces for the OpenStack Innovation Center and more in our weekly update.
Get your OpenStack Summit Tokyo visa in five steps
Japan requires visas from many countries, including India and China. Here's our guide to getting yours as quickly and painlessly as possible.
Crystal ball: what pundits say is next for Cloud Native Computing Foundation, OpenStack and Kubernetes
What services and capabilities are next, whether the container ecosystem is poppycock and more in our weekly update.
OpenStack and cloud native applications: two peas in a data center pod
The pairing gives the OpenStack community a solid foundation to establish its APIs as containers grow in importance.
Kubernetes community lands 1.0 release
Two users talk about running Kubernetes on OpenStack at Google’s launch event.
Global community celebrates five years of OpenStack
As OpenStack turns five, community members weigh in on how the project has impacted their career and where they see it a decade after launch.
Five years of OpenStack: A bright planet takes shape
On the eve of the fifth anniversary, Google finds a missing piece by partnering with OpenStack, how the cloud is enveloping IT careers and more in our weekly update.
What you need to know about Google joining OpenStack
As Google officially sponsors the OpenStack Foundation, the community benefits with container expertise and hyper scale know-how.
OpenStack pins down next release name: Mitaka
The town, near Tokyo, will lend its name to the upcoming "M" release.
Rising from the ashes: Ceilometer redefines its mission
An active contributor shares what you need to know about changes in OpenStack's telemetry service.
Running your own Ceph integration tests with OpenStack
Loic Dachary walks you through testing OpenStack's distributed object store and file system.
Third OpenStack CEE Day grows by 35 percent
The event in the Central and Eastern Europe region for open-source cloud software is gaining steam.
Up and running with Docker Machine and OpenStack
Want OpenStack to talk with Docker Machine? Spencer Smith, cloud engineer at Solinea, shows you how to the conversation started, then deploy a quick container.
Upgrading Nova to Kilo with minimal downtime
A high-level guide for a rolling Nova upgrade, from Dan Smith, principal software engineer at Red Hat.
Blazing the trail for OpenStack in South Korea
In a largely male-dominated industry, Nalee Jang, one of Korea’s leading experts in open-source software, hopes to empower women to pursue careers in technology.
OpenStack Essentials: a book to get you grounded in the fundamentals
Author Dan Radez talks about demystifying the cloud, TryStack and why books are still useful for learning stuff.
Why LivePerson goes hand-in-hand with OpenStack
An early adopter shares numbers and hopes for the future.
Deustche Telekom and TDBank kick off OpenStack Day Israel
Telecommunications giants and startups answer the call to innovation in Tel Aviv.
Shifting gears: how cloud is revolutionizing TV post-production
Thanks to OpenStack, DigitalFilm Tree employs multiple clouds to squeeze 3,600 hours of content into one-hour television show hits
OpenStack Turkey user group eager to make an impression on the global community
Meeting in a city that merges a storied past with a dynamic future, local users talk about what's next.
How the cloud can cut red tape
4,000 websites into just one: Mexico to launch ambitious citizen service portal with OpenStack.
What building Legos can teach you about open source
OpenStack Upstream Training unites play with open-source development
Travel grants bring global community members to OpenStack Summit
28 key contributors from 14 countries attended the recent OpenStack Summit in Vancouver thanks to the Travel Support Program.
How to get more women involved in tech? Communication, leadership and mentors
Breakfast working session highlights opportunities to accelerate women participation and visibility in OpenStack community
Think FICO is a credit scoring company? Nope: it’s about large-scale analytics
OpenStack allows us to meet scale and cut costs, says Nick Gerasimatos director of engineering and cloud services at FICO.
Revamping Ceilometer, Federated Identity for research and why OpenStack is doomed
OpenStack Summit Vancouver attendees had plenty to say about what they are taking away from the recent five-day conference...
Top 10 quotes: State of the Stack
This unofficial keynote talk from Randy Bias, vice president of technology at EMC, is always worth hearing. Here's his take on what's working in OpenStack, what's broken and how to fix it.
Expanding the reach of OpenStack to new industries
Cisco's Lew Tucker on the expanding reach of cloud computing will bring sweeping changes to OpenStack - and fewer of those dreaded phone calls to troubleshoot outages...
How to grow the OpenStack application community
The new community app catalog is step one in the organic cycle of growing a great community, says Craig Peters of Mirantis. Here's his take on what the community needs to do next for fruition.
Why OpenStack is no longer risky business
Jet Propulsion Lab, eBay, Google, Yahoo, and Intel showed how experimentation with OpenStack is bringing rewards...
Unlocking the cloud: day one of the OpenStack Summit Vancouver
Attendees soared and actual rockets flew across the stage on this exceptional launch day...
OpenStack application developers share insights
A new picture of devs emerges from the most recent user survey: hungry for accurate documentation, heavy on hybrid cloud and steady with their SDKs.
OpenStack users share how their deployments stack up
According to the most recent user survey, the oldies continue to be the goodies in terms of popular projects. However, some newer projects are climbing up the charts, too.
User survey identifies leading industries and business drivers for OpenStack adoption
Operational efficiency, speed and cost are leading business drivers for OpenStack adoption, users say.
Supersizing the OpenStack Operators Meetups
No more meeting on the sidelines for these strategic input sessions, says OpenStack Foundation community manager Tom Fifield.
Container Day launches at the OpenStack Vancouver Summit
With a whole day aimed at getting you to a happy space, we asked Magnum's project technical lead what everyone should know about this hot topic.
Top four user talks at the OpenStack Vancouver Summit
Unsure which talks to pick at the upcoming conference? We've got you covered.
Rebuilding an OpenStack instance and keeping the same fixed IP
OpenStack deployment engineer Craige McWhirter of Anchor Cloud Hosting shows how to rebuild your OpenStack instance while solving that pesky IP problem
Snapshot of the OpenStack community behind Kilo
The 11th release ushers in the era of the "continuous development community" with a record number of contributors worldwide.
China hosts OpenStack bug-fix hackathon
Intel and Huawei organized what will become a twice-yearly event
Moving from CityCloud legacy to OpenStack – Part 2
In part two, IT specialist/consultant Luc Van Steen walks you through connectivity and moving your data to the OpenStack platform.
Why you should attend an OpenStack Summit
10 top OpenStack Summit moments that will have you feeling nostalgic and wondering what’s in store for Vancouver, May 18-22
Moving from CityCloud legacy to OpenStack – Part 1
In this tutorial, IT specialist/consultant Luc Van Steen walks you through moving first generation cloud servers to the OpenStack platform.
OpenStack breaks a new record for active contributors
Active contributors, both old and new, are up 14 percent from last year, according to the most recent community activity report.
Real innovation? It means keeping cloud solutions simple
"People have deployed over-engineered solutions to problems that could have been solved very simply. Not all problems require an infinitely scalable hyper-cloud solution," says Aptira CTO Kavit Munshi.
Why OpenStack will change the way we live, work and play
Niki Acosta of Cisco on how on the cloud computing platform is good for job security and her hopes for a "Jetsons" future.
Scale & Maturity: Thoughts on the OpenStack Mid-Cycle Operators Meetup
Matt Fischer, principal engineer at Time Warner Cable, shares his takeaways from Philadelphia and a wish list for future improvements.
OpenStack at 10: different code, same collaboration?
In the next five years, Individual Director Rob Hirschfeld says that he expects the community governance and interaction models being developed now will endure beyond the code.
The joy of contributing to OpenStack
Tips, tricks and when to call it quits from the OpenStack Foundation’s developer advocate, Stefano Maffulli.
Meet AVOS: the analytics dashboard for your OpenStack cloud
If you’re looking for quick insight into your cloud’s configuration, state, performance and faults, this open-source dashboard developed by Cisco can help.
Pass the Mic User Spotlight: Jeremy Stanley, OpenStack Infrastructure Team
"When we encounter a problem with our system implementations, the extremely vibrant community of users, operators and developers is on hand to help us figure out how to fix it for ourselves and for everyone else as well."
Check out what’s under the hood at TryStack
Dan Radez uncovers the gear that will power OpenStack's free testing sandbox
Takeaways from OpenStack’s Mid-Cycle Ops Meetup: A little more conversation, a little more action
"It’s encouraging to hear the amount of experience people have and the tips and tricks they are willing to share,” says Carol Barrett of Intel.
OpenStack Mid-Cycle meetup, day two roundup
Interoperability, Nova and a session called "burning issues" were on tap for day two.
OpenStack Mid-Cycle meetup, day one roundup
Tools, tags and large deployments: Updates from the operators meetup
Five years in: Charting the OpenStack galaxy
Why a strong center of gravity is essential to our continuing mission
OpenStack User Groups get a new home
The new portal helps you keep current on OpenStack events near you, wherever you are.
CloudCamp Bangladesh sparks conversation on the future of cloud
80 percent of attendees were students eager to learn the value of open source.
OpenStack + Kubernetes = More choice and flexibility for developers
A live demo at a packed meetup shows how managing containers will become much easier
Romancing the devs: another reason Walmart Labs went open source
"There are great engineers all over the world, and your company is probably fighting to get as many of them as possible. Supply doesn’t meet demand, so it's important to do everything you can to help attract and retrain talent," says Dion Almaer of Walmart Labs.
DefCore isn’t a punk band, but if you use OpenStack, listen up
DefCore plays an important role ensuring some consistency and interoperability among OpenStack clouds, says Russell Bryant, Red Hat software engineer and individual director at OpenStack. For Bryant, it's one of the most key issues in OpenStack now.
Contributing to open cloud projects without losing your mind
Understanding the release cycle, making your first contributions count and considering the culture will go a long way.
Chris Anderson on how the cloud fosters innovation
“We’re not going to beat the competition by raising more money or being smarter than they are,” Anderson said at the Linux Collaboration Summit. “We’ll do it by being more open.”
Welcome to the wild west of networking and cloud infrastructure
“We’re at the very beginning,” says Chris Wright of Red Hat. There are "cool components" galore, but also more than a few “pain points."
Running an OpenStack cloud? Get yourself to the Mid-Cycle Operators Meetup
The free meetup, held March 9-10 in Philadelphia, is a chance for operators to share best practices and give feedback.
Three cloud computing myths, debunked
"Cloud is not a single monolithic substance that somehow just works for everyone. Neither is a particular type of cloud the answer to everything," says Egle Sigler, a principal architect with Rackspace private cloud and recently elected OpenStack Individual Director.
Creating OpenStack debs for everyday operators
Xav Paice gives us insight into how Catalyst IT in New Zealand goes about taking distro packages, and combining that with custom code built into packages ready for deployment.
How you can help refresh OpenStack’s Documentation site
The simplified markup of the new design will make it easier to use and contribute documentation.
OpenStack crowns “Liberty” its next release name
Liberty as in free beer or free software? Neither. The next release is named after a small Canadian town.
OpenStack Day in Korea 2015: to infinity and beyond!
Seoul’s sold-out event focused on next-level users
Big in Japan: OpenStack Days in Tokyo double in size
The popularity of OpenStack Days in Japan demonstrates a pivot to open source
Take these OpenStack Infrastructure tools and run!
If you're running out of steam managing patchsets, comments and test environments, these open source tools developed by OpenStack can put you back on track.
Working to bridge the developer/end-user divide in OpenStack
The Product Working Group will embark on a listening campaign to improve dialogue between developers and their managers
How OpenStack gate failures were solved
Matthew Treinish of the HP OpenStack team explains how he solved Out Of Memory failures on Neutron jobs with triage in the second part of this series.
Tales from the Trenches: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of OpenStack Operations
Two Blue Box engineers share a first-hand account of the problems and solutions that they’ve encountered in their experience operating OpenStack clouds.
eBay in Production: Migration from Nova-Network to Neutron
How the e-commerce giant performed a seamless migration from the Folsom Nova-network to Havana Neutron.
Kilo Project Update: Glance
Nikhil Komawar, Glance Project Technical Lead, explains the upcoming features we can expect in the Kilo release cycle.
Pass the Mic User Spotlight: Doug Soltesz, Budd Van Lines
"Because of the experience and success we’ve had with OpenStack, Budd Van Lines is ordering specific hardware and newer equipment that will end up in production."
Kilo Update: Keystone
Morgan Fainberg, Keystone PTL, explains the upcoming features we can expect in the Kilo release cycle.
Kilo Update: Trove
Nikhil Manchanda, Trove's PTL, details the project's plans for Kilo
Cisco’s OpenStack Strategy Detailed
Part 2 of Lew Tucker's Paris Summit session reveals the strategy guiding Cisco's corporate strategy as it relates to OpenStack.
A Guide To Testing in OpenStack
Get the basics on how to start running tests in OpenStack.
Pass the Mic: Ryan Burkhardt, GoDaddy
"Our OpenStack implementation has allowed our engineers to take an idea for an improvement or new service and begin building that idea in seconds – delivering new levels of speed and agility for the team."
Kilo Update: Ceilometer
Eoghan Glynn, Ceilometer PTL, explains the upcoming features we can expect in the Kilo release cycle.
Kilo Update: Horizon
David Lyle, OpenStack Dashboard PTL, lets us in on the updates that are planned for Horizon in the Kilo cycle.
Kilo Update: Swift
Last week, Swift PTL John Dickinson recapped the key conversations, upcoming features, and challenges surrounding object storage in the Kilo release.
Pass the Mic: Matt Haines, Time Warner Cable
"Shifting workloads to OpenStack improves reliability, reduces time to deployment, reduces costs, and enables our application teams to adopt a devops culture."
PTL Overview: Juno to Kilo Roadmap in Neutron
Kyle Mestery walks through the updates to Neutron that are planned for the next OpenStack release.
OpenStack Documentation & Review Cycle Management – Kilo Update
Anne Gentle discusses changes in the documentation process for Kilo and Thierry Carrez touches on the challenges of meeting the changing demands for release cycle management.
How Tapjoy Uses OpenStack to Deliver Billions of Daily Requests Globally
Wes Jossey, Tapjoy's Head of Operations, outlines the company's success with OpenStack during the Paris Summit
Pass the Mic User Spotlight: Álvaro López García, IFCA
"Our computing nodes are 99% running on top of OpenStack."
My Key Learning from Paris
The French food is amazing, of course, but lessons from the OpenStack Summit go beyond boeuf bourgignon. By Matt Fischer
Bridges and Tunnels: A Drive Through OpenStack Networking
At the OpenStack Summit in Paris, the Neutron Core team explains OpenStack Networking and its architecture
Lew Tucker: A World of Many (OpenStack) Clouds
At the OpenStack Summit in Paris, Cisco's own Lew Tucker discussed the next step forward in cloud computing — the Intercloud.
BBVA on OpenStack
The BBVA innovation team shared their user story at the OpenStack Summit in Paris, demonstrating how OpenStack can be used by a leading financial institution
Docker Meets Swift: A Broadcaster’s Experience
Last week Eran Rom and Alberto Messina presented on RAI - Radiotelevisione Italiana's prototype of Docker-powered Swift clusters at the OpenStack Summit.
Bringing Research to the Cloud
How the NeCTAR Research Cloud is breaking down silos, improving collaboration, and dramatically reducing the time it takes to access disparate data sources in the research community.
Paris Summit Recap, Day 3
If you're not in Paris, catch up on the OpenStack Summit here.
Paris Summit Recap, Day 2
If you're not in Paris, catch up on the OpenStack Summit here.
OpenStack User Survey Insights: November 2014
Results from the latest user survey are revealed at the OpenStack Summit in Paris.
Paris Summit Recap, Day 1
If you're not in Paris, catch up on the OpenStack Summit here.
Overstock.com’s Pet Adoption Site Gets Tails Wagging
OpenStack powers free animal rescue program
Pass the Mic User Spotlight: Shilla Saebi
"To me, open source means community, development and transparency."
Top 4 User Sessions in Paris
We've collected the top user stories you can't miss at the fall OpenStack Summit
OpenStack Workshop At Grace Hopper Open Source Day 2014
The community participated in Open Source Day this year with a six hour code-a-thon for OpenStack beginners and veterans alike
What You Should Know about the Ops Meetup in Paris
We sit down with Tom Fifield, Community Manager for the OpenStack Foundation, to talk about what the Paris Summit has to offer for operators
OpenStack Juno: Reactions
With 342 new features and more than 3,000 bug fixes, Juno is distinguished by its growing maturity
OpenStack Benelux: Four user stories from Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands
Examples of how OpenStack provides a useful cloud platform regardless of size.
How the Ada Initiative is Encouraging Diversity in the Open Source Community
...and how OpenStack is helping. By Mike Perez
Making the Case for OpenStack–You’d Be Surprised What Enterprises Overlook
Successful OpenStack deployments require more than just a strong command of the technology
Finding the right OpenStack provider
Get the basics of the OpenStack Marketplace and find a provider that fits your needs.
Ops Meetup Coming to Paris Summit Next Month
The User Committee is now taking ideas for topics from the community
OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter Sept. 26 – Oct. 3
Highlights from the weekly community newsletter
Network Function Virtualization – The Opportunity for OpenStack and Open Source
What exactly does NFV have to do with OpenStack, and is it a good thing?
Main features of Hypervisors reviewed
What you need to understand the hypervisor-support matrix.
DigitalFilm Tree Wins Engineering Award for OpenStack-based Cloud Initiative
DigitalFilm Tree’s OpenStack prowess won the company widespread industry recognition
OpenStack Juno: Continuing Enterprise Maturity
A Superuser View of the upcoming Juno Release
Report from the Mid-Cycle Meetup for Operators
Why the mid-cycle meetup is a trend to watch in the evolution of software development in the cloud era.
Dox a tool that run python (or others) tests in a docker container
Make integrating docker containers for testing easy and reliable.
Cloud&Heat brings a new kind of startup to your basement
Thanks to OpenStack, this German startup is fueling the data furnace market.
Triaging and classifying a gate failure
How to go from a failure to a fix: debugging gate failures.
Operating OpenStack: Monitoring RabbitMQ
Here's what you need to know about monitoring issues related to RabbitMQ.
Building an OpenStack Cloud for Solaris Engineering, Part 1
A look at the deployment used by the Solaris engineering organization, how they built it and what they've learned so far.
Quoted!
Why OpenStack is written in python, survey results that indicate OpenStack is a favorite among open source projects, OpenStack Barbican, and more.
Survey says: OpenStack and Docker Most Popular Open Source Projects
OpenStack is the most popular open source cloud project, according to a survey from The New Stack and Linux.com
Why a Top Automaker Adopted OpenStack
This week, the Foundation announced a top-10 automaker is using OpenStack to change the way they design products, collect data, and market and sell their vehicles. All at 1/10th the cost.
Using Ceilometer with Graphite
Get scalable, real-time compute graphs up and running.
Understanding OpenStack Heat Auto Scaling
Ramon Acedo walks us through the steps to have Heat autoscaling.
Aussie User Group Holds First-Ever Docs Swarm
The Australia OpenStack User Group, based in Brisbane, held OpenStack's first mini-sprint to compile a standalone OpenStack Networking Guide. By Lana Brindley and Brian Moss
User Group Spotlight: Iran & Atlanta
We had such an overwhelming response from user groups interested in sharing their stories with us in July, that we're extending the user group spotlights into August.
Kili Empowers Tech Startups in East Africa With Inexpensive Public Cloud
Adam Nelson speaks with Superuser about how his company is bringing cutting-edge cloud infrastructure, based on OpenStack, to Kenya and surrounding East African countries.
Splitting up Git Commits
Simplify code review with git's built in tools. Here's how.
If You Have Enough Fast, Anything Is Possible
How Disney built a modern cloud with open source.
User Group Spotlight: Brazil & North Carolina
July marks OpenStack's 4th birthday and we're celebrating this year by spotlighting user groups from around the world.
User Group Spotlight: Australia & Kenya
July marks OpenStack's 4th birthday and we're celebrating this year by spotlighting user groups from around the world.
OpenStack Community Celebrates Four Years!
Here's how you can participate in anniversary celebrations.
VIDEO: OpenStack Roadmap Software Trajectory
OpenStack Superusers discuss their influence on software trajectory.
User Group Spotlight: South Korea & Kentucky
July marks OpenStack's 4th birthday and we're celebrating this year by spotlighting user groups from around the world.
Enter Fulfills Vision of Becoming a True Open Cloud Provider
How Enter’s belief in openness has led to the continued success of the company
Ceilometer: Full-stack Monitoring for OpenStack
How to support virtual and physical resource monitoring with Ceilometer
OpenStack’s Agile Approach To Training
Get up to speed on how to contribute, and how OpenStack helps newcomers succeed.
User Group Spotlight: Greece
July marks OpenStack's 4th birthday and we're celebrating this year by spotlighting user groups from around the world.
How We Scaled OpenStack to Launch 168,000 Cloud Instances
A detailed account of Ubuntu's opportunity to test OpenStack at scale
VIDEO: OpenStack Ecosystem Partners and Vendors
Superusers at the Atlanta Summit talk about their experiences working with partners and vendors using OpenStack
VIDEO: Team Changing Cultures
Superusers open up about OpenStack community impact on their internal teams
Taking Stock of OpenStack’s Rapid Growth
Takeaways from the Atlanta Summit, By Jonathan Bryce
VIDEO: OpenStack Community Impact
Superusers discuss the benefits of getting involved within the OpenStack community
VIDEO: Mark Collier Interviews AT&T, Sony, DigitalFilm Tree
The second day of the Atlanta Summit feature keynotes from superusers about how OpenStack helps them innovate quickly and stay agile.
OpenStack in Numbers – The Real Stats
An analysis of the OpenStack User Survey results, released at the Atlanta Summit.
Summit Session: Verizon’s NFV Strategy, Lab Specs
Last week [Fred Oliveira](https://www.linkedin.com/pub/fred-oliveira/0/933/1aa) presented on Verizon’s NFV (Network Function Virtualization) strategy and related lab specs at the OpenStack Summit.
Secure Messaging with Kite
A valuable discussion around protocol for secure messaging using Kite.
Cisco’s Lew Tucker On The Cloud Of The Future
Tucker explains how the data center is being transformed in a Summit breakout session last week.
Writing the OpenStack Operations Guide
Five days, seven authors, 10,000 words a day, 340 pages and one very unique approach to writing a book.
VIDEO: Jonathan Bryce Interviews Disney, Wells Fargo
The Atlanta Summit's opening keynote featured interviews with two superusers, who talked about their role in the community and how OpenStack is helping them stay competitive, flexible, and fast.
Quoted! At The Summit
The OpenStack Summit in Atlanta is well underway and the superuser voice is being heard loud and clear.
OpenStack Unveils Marketplace to Increase Transparency, Adoption
OpenStack Marketplace allows users to browse and compare products, services and training courses related to OpenStack to more easily match services to business needs.
CERN Cloud Architecture – Update
Get the scoop on the latest changes to CERN's cloud infrastructure.
Multiple Private Networks with Open vSwitch GRE Tunnels and Libvirt
Ramon Acedo shares how to get set up on infrastructure requiring multiple networks on a typical home lab.
User Spotlight: Matt Van Winkle
Matt offers his best advice for new OpenStack users in today's Spotlight post.
User Spotlight: Charles Beadnall
Charles reveals the single most important factor for the success of OpenStack users in 2014 in today's Spotlight post.