578 articles from Superuser
Exploring the Open Infrastructure Blueprint: Huawei Dual Engine
Huawei Dual Engine is a solution by Huawei Technologies, co.LTD that combines Linux, OpenStack, and Kubernetes in production.
Open Infrastructure Blueprint: Atmosphere Deep Dive
Atmosphere is an open-source OpenStack deployment tool that provides a full suite of cloud infrastructure management capabilities.
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.
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.
Congratulations to the 2023 Superuser Awards Winner: Bloomberg
Bloomberg wins the 2023 Superuser Awards.
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!
2021 OpenInfra Annual Report: OpenDev
The OpenInfra Foundation annual report for 2021 is now live, including sections on open infrastructure growth, all OpenInfra projects, Foundation updates, SIG and WG updates, and more.
2021 OpenInfra Annual Report: OpenInfra Labs
The OpenInfra Foundation annual report for 2021 is now live, including sections on open infrastructure growth, all OpenInfra projects, Foundation updates, SIG and WG updates, and more.
2021 OpenInfra Annual Report: State of OpenInfra in China
The OpenInfra Foundation annual report for 2021 is now live, including sections on open infrastructure growth, all OpenInfra projects, Foundation updates, SIG and WG updates, and more.
2021 OpenInfra Annual Report: Zuul
The OpenInfra Foundation annual report for 2021 is now live, including sections on open infrastructure growth, all OpenInfra projects, Foundation updates, SIG and WG 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.
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!
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
#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!
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.
Open Infrastructure Summit 2020 Schedule is Now Live!
October event features keynotes from major users and more than 100 sessions for developers and users of open source technology
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."
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.
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."
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"
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.
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."
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."
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.”
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.
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.
Report: Open-source object storage “more mainstream than ever”
Typically employed for second-tier storage, backup and long-term archives, now it's supporting cloud-native workloads that require data to remain always and quickly accessible.
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.
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.
Check out these open infrastructure project updates
Project team leads share what’s next in the development cycle.
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.
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.
What’s next for Zuul
The project, which recently graduated, asks poignant questions about its future.
Firecracker and Kata Containers: Sparking more open collaboration
Meet the new collaborative project rust-vmm.
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.
Open Infrastructure Community Contributor Awards: Denver Summit edition
A lot of behind-the-scenes work goes on in the community–these awards put a medal on it.
And the Superuser Award goes to…
VEXXHOST takes home the prize from this edition.
Get involved with diversity and inclusion events at the Denver Summit
Check out the Diversity & Inclusion Working Group, try speed mentoring and a networking lunch.
What to expect from the upcoming Forum
At the Forum participants will bring feedback, pain points and proposals following April's Stein release. Here's an overview of what happens.
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.
Inside container infrastructure: Must-see sessions at the Open Infrastructure Summit
Hear from experts at Intel, CERN, AWS Mesosphere and more at the upcoming Summit.
Inside HPC, artificial intelligence and machine learning: Must-see sessions at the Open Infrastructure Summit
Learn about facial recognition, super computers, neural networks and more.
How open source hackathons are fast-tracking growth
These popular events featuring OpenStack, Kubernetes and Ceph are fast-tracking open source growth in China.
Inside edge computing: Must-see sessions at the Open Infrastructure Summit
Hear from experts at Ericsson, Dell, Red Hat, Cisco and more.
How the StarlingX project opens new doors for telecoms
Companies will leverage StarlingX to capitalize on opportunities enabled by distributed edge clouds, including connected vehicles, augmented reality, telemedicine and drones.
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.
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.
Inside CI/CD: Must see sessions at the Open Infrastructure Summit
Learn more about Zuul, Tungsten Fabric, Airship and improving CI at the upcoming conference.
How Kata Containers boost security in Docker containers
Nils Magnus of Open Telekom Cloud shows how it's done.
Meet the newest members of the OpenStack Technical Committee
More on the new members of the TC.
Inside private and hybrid cloud: Must-see sessions at the Open Infrastructure Summit
Hear from experts at CERN, Cisco, Boeing and more.
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.
A new partnership aims to push forward artificial intelligence and machine learning with OpenStack
“As the government invests in cloud migration, there will be significant value in being able to analyze data stored in the cloud,” says Vault CEO and founder Rupert Taylor-Price.
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.
Community Contributor Awards Open for Denver Summit
Nominate your unsung heroes before April 14.
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.
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.
Diversity in tech: Make your voice heard
Answer this short survey before February 28, 2019.
How to get production-ready Kubernetes in OpenStack public clouds
OpenStack and Kubernetes are becoming a standard that allows users to benefit from both virtual machines and containers for their cloud-native applications, says Catalyst Cloud's Feilong Wang.
Superuser Awards nominations open for Open Infrastructure Summit
Are you making a difference with open infrastructure? Nominate your team by March 22.
Cloud native computing at scale: Avoid becoming the next cryto-mine for hackers
A couple of tools available on GitHub to keep crypto-miners out of your containers.
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.
Check out these open infrastructure project updates
Project team leads share what’s next in the development cycle.
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.
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.
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.
One to rule them all: OpenStack projects unify mailing lists
Here's what you need to know to get started with the new list.
How you can contribute to the Four Opens book
Here's how you can add insight and context to this ongoing effort.
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.
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.
And the Superuser Award goes to…
City Network takes home the prize from this edition.
OpenStack and Kubernetes: Competing or complementary?
Mihaela Constantinescu of Sardina Systems shares her perspective.
Get involved with diversity events at the Berlin Summit
Check out the Diversity & Inclusion Working Group, try speed mentoring and a networking lunch.
How to automatically deploy Zenko and MetalK8s on OpenStack
Using Heat scripts and a Murano app to get up and running quickly.
Must-see sessions on edge computing at the Berlin Summit
Hear experts from AT&T, Verizon, Juniper Networks and more.
Inside private and hybrid cloud: Must-see sessions at the Berlin Summit
Hear from experts at CERN, Oath, Red Hat, Workday and more.
Inside HPC, GPU, AI : Must-see sessions at the Berlin Summit
Highlights you’ll want to add to your schedule about HPC, GPU and AI.
What to expect from the upcoming OpenStack Forum
Answers to your most common questions about the upcoming Forum at the Summit Berlin.
Pairing OpenStack and open source MANO for NFV deployments
Calsoft’s Sagar Nangare on how the two open-source technologies are coming together.
How open source communities are coming together to build open infrastructure
At the upcoming Summit Berlin, a large contingent of open-source projects meeting up to work together including Kubernetes, ONAP, Ansible and more.
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.
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 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.
Jump-start your cloud skills with an Outreachy internship
Deadline is Oct. 30, 2018. These three-month internships are a great way for people from underrepresented groups to get started.
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.
How to make your open source project more inclusive
Some fundamentals for creating a welcoming, productive environment.
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.
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.
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.
OpenStack Rocky case study: Flying high now
Vexxhost comes out swinging with a new region running the 18th release.
How to auto scale a self-healing cluster with Heat
Rico Lin, PTL for the orchestration project, offers this tutorial.
Finding the edge: The next OpenStack Hackathon
Got gadgets? Bring them to Berlin or hack the devices available during the free, two-day event.
Making open source work from the inside out at your company
Approach it the wrong way and people will think that "inner source is bullshit," says Isabel Drost-Fromm.
How to manage OpenStack security and networks with Ansible 2
Learn how to automate security and network in this tutorial from Aditya Patawari and Vikas Aggarwal.
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.
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.
Buffer your cloud knowledge: Upcoming training and webinars
Here are some of our top picks for upcoming ways to expand your brain, online or in person.
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.
What’s next in Ironic 11.1
New features for this release and how to get involved at the upcoming Project Teams Gathering.
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.
A look inside the OpenStack Upstream Institute
A peek into a packed class offered at OpenStack Days Brazil.
Why small, diverse teams are key to successful dev-ops
Creating new solutions to old problems is hard when you have a team of people from the same background, says Puppet's Alberta Bosco.
How to deploy Windows on OpenStack
Fuga Cloud's Yuri Sijtema offers this tutorial.
Why dev-ops is still a hands-on job
A large global survey reveals a surprising amount of artisanal work.
How to set up container-based OpenStack with Open Virtual Network
This tutorial offers an overview of system architecture and troubleshoots some common issues.
Building new foundations: OpenInfra Days Korea
A number of use-cases were shared with OpenStack, Kubernetes and CI/CD.
How to get your talk accepted for the next OpenStack Summit
What's new and time-tested tips for the July 17 deadline.
Check out these OpenStack project updates
Project team leads share what's new and what's next in the development cycle.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Kickstart your knowledge with the OpenStack Upstream Institute
Info on the next free training sessions and how you can get involved.
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.
Breezing through hybrid and multi-cloud deployments with Spinnaker
Battle-tested in production by hundreds of teams over millions of deployments, here's what the multi-cloud continuous delivery platform can do for you.
Meet Aptomi: An application delivery engine for Kubernetes
The open-source project simplifies roll out and operation of container-based applications on Kubernetes.
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.
And the Superuser Award goes to…
The Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) wins the Superuser Award at the OpenStack Summit Vancouver.
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.
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.
Inside telecom and NFV: Must-see sessions at the Vancouver Summit
Hear from experts at AT&T, Verizon, Intel, NTT and more.
What to expect from your first OpenStack Summit
Community leaders share tips and need-to-knows for the Summit-curious.
Meet the newest members of the OpenStack Technical Committee
More on the seven new members of the TC.
Architecting the cloud: How to get started with patterns
Harihara Subramanian, co-author of "Architectural Patterns," talks upskilling, microservices and trade-offs.
Inside private and hybrid cloud: Must-see sessions at the Vancouver Summit
Hear from experts at CERN, Cumulus Networks, Intel, Cisco and more.
Inside HPC, GPU, AI : Must-see sessions at the Vancouver Summit
Hear experts from CERN, Red Hat, NTT and more in May.
OpenStack Project Teams Gathering: What’s next
Red Hat's Rich Bowen talked to PTG attendees about their experience and looks ahead to the next one.
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.
What’s next in CI/CD
Hear experts from Huawei, Ericsson, Mirantis, Cisco and more at OpenDev May 22-23, 2018 in Vancouver.
Flipping the switch to 5G with open source
"Open source really helps us on two fronts: one is cost and the other speed," says AT&T CTO Andre Fuetsch.
Inside container infrastructure: Must-see sessions at the Vancouver Summit
Hear experts from Red Hat, CERN, AT&T, Nokia and more.
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.
Inside edge computing: Must-see sessions at the Vancouver Summit
Hear experts from Verizon, Ericsson, China Mobile, Intel, Cisco and more in May.
Kickstart your knowledge with the OpenStack Upstream Institute
Info on the next free training sessions and how you can get involved.
Recommendations for high-performance computing on OpenStack
Julio Villarreal Pelegrino from Red Hat offers some ideas on best practices for networking and storage.
How you can influence the next OpenStack Forum
Got pain points or pet projects? Deadline to propose sessions is April 15.
Got two minutes? Get up to speed on bare metal as-a-service
Bare metal as-a-service allows you to provision or sequel workloads or SQL workloads and treat them like cloud instances, says Platform9's Cody Hill.
What’s new at the Vancouver Summit
As the OSF focuses on open infrastructure, get ready to experience a new Summit.
Check out these OpenStack project updates
Project team leads and core contributors talk about what's new in this release and what to expect from the next one.
Getting started with multi-cloud
Think before you multiply your cloud: a few key considerations.
When CI/CD becomes a battleground
Two veterans of IT talk about the disrupting forces and political battles in continuous integration and delivery.
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.
How a large multinational seeds cloud native
Huawei’s Kubernetes journey began with just one developer turned evangelist.
5G and the really smart self-driving car
SK telecom's most recent experiments show how low latency can improve safety.
What you need to know about cloud edge computing
Use cases, challenges and how you can get involved.
How open source sparks the business of network transformation
Software-defined networking and network function virtualization play an increasingly important role in transforming networks.
Superuser Awards nominations open for OpenStack Summit
Superuser Awards nominations are open for the Vancouver Summit.
Intro to networking-vector packet processing
Get up to speed with this demo from Cisco's Jérôme Tollet at FOSDEM.
How Network Functions Virtualization helps service providers fail fast
OPNFV director Heather Kirksey says that NFV allows service providers to take a Silicon Valley-approach to innovation.
Outreachy program welcomes four new OpenStack interns
More on the projects they're tacking with seasoned community members.
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.
Want to go cloud native? Start with the right people, says author
“You can’t just tell everyone we’re going to going use this new thing, go have at it," says Justin Garrison, co-author of “Cloud Native Infrastructure: Patterns for Scalable Infrastructure and Applications in a Dynamic Environment.”
Pay it forward: Join Google Summer of Code as an OpenStack mentor
Apply to help out for the next round by January 23.
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.
Where to connect with OpenStack in 2018
Find OpenStack events near you this year to connect with the community.
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.
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.
OpenStack: Picks for your bookshelf
Some picks from the most recent crop of OpenStack manuals.
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.
How a new storage system delivers the goods for MercadoLibre
How the online marketplace reduced latency from 50 to less than two milliseconds.
Check out these OpenStack project updates
Project team leads share what's new and what's next in the development cycle.
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.
How to use OpenStack Glance Image Import
Erno Kuvaja and Brian Rosmaita walk you through the update.
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.
Kubernetes on OpenStack: Digging into technical details
Bitnami's Angus Lees offers up a recommended deployment and advice about future developments.
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.
How to build OpenStack on Kubernetes
How Workday uses Kubernetes to achieve zero downtime for large-scale production software-as-a-service.
OpenStack Community Contributor Awards recognize unsung heroes
These awards -a little informal and quirky- recognize the valuable work from the community.
Your passport to what’s next in OpenStack
Updates from the Sydney Summit keynotes.
And the Superuser Award goes to…
The Tencent TStack team won the Superuser Award at the OpenStack Summit Sydney.
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.
Get started with serverless architecture in OpenStack
Get started in under five minutes and just five steps with this tutorial from Lingxian Kong.
OpenStack Days Nordic 2017: On the move
About 250 people met in Copenhagen for this two-day event.
Tips for keeping your OpenStack ops moving
An eBook by Canonical offers up some ideas for avoiding "StuckStack."
Meet the OpenStack Scientific Special Interest Group
How to get your science on at the Sydney Summit and beyond with the SIG.
Meet the newest members of the OpenStack Technical Committee
More on the six new members of the TC.
OpenStack Days: Coming to a city near you
“Being able to go to OpenStack Days is really important,” says executive director Jonathan Bryce.
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.
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.
OpenStack operator spotlight: Fastweb
The Italian telecom company uses OpenStack as the framework for its infrastructure-as-a-service public cloud.
How to deliver network services at the edge
Verizon’s Beth Cohen talks about the hard work and, yes, magic involved in edge computing.
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.
Interested in reading up on OpenStack? Check out these books
The OpenStack Marketplace now features a selection of books from the community...
Getting started with OpenStack? Check out this cheat sheet
Common commands for services Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron and Cinder in a one-page guide.
Superuser Best of Sydney Summit Guide
There's plenty to learn about edge, multi-cloud and Kubernetes at the Sydney Summit.
OpenTracing project profile
As part of our ongoing series spotlighting open-source projects, a profile of OpenTracing and how you can get involved.
OpenStack’s seventh birthday: A world of cake!
This stack definitely takes the cake...
Pay it forward: Become an OpenStack mentor
Emily Hugenbruch on how to get involved now.
How to make successful contributions to open source projects
Kendall Nelson and Ildiko Vancsa share thoughts on the secret sauce of contributions.
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.
Why large state-owned enterprises are boarding the OpenStack train
100,000 cloud hosts with 800 nodes on the road to virtualization.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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? […]
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.
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.
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.
Interop challenge: global OpenStack clouds rise again
15 participants around the world deployed a geo-distributed CockroachDB cluster using Kubernetes on OpenStack.
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.
And the Superuser Award goes to…
It's a tie: Paddy Power Betfair and UKCloud won the Superuser Award at the OpenStack Summit Boston.
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.
Spark your interest with OpenStack lightning talks
Talks on Kubernetes, security and best practices will keep you moving at the OpenStack Summit Boston.
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.
Reference architectures and deployment templates simplify proof-of-concepts for popular OpenStack workloads
The Enterprise Working Group, in conjunction with industry-leading users, developed reference architectures for the most popular workloads on OpenStack—three-tier web applications, big data and eCommerce.
Enterprise Working Group celebrates three years helping businesses with OpenStack
Three years, three books and plenty more to come.
OpenStack works best when devs and operators tailor their workloads
Monica Rodriguez gives Superuser a sneak peak into her talks at OpenStack Boston.
Jumpstart your OpenStack know-how at the Upstream Institute
This free 1.5-day class organized by the OpenStack Foundation will get you up an running as a contributor.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 to disable NAT for IPv4
Shannon McFarland from Cisco Systems explains how to disable IPv4 NAT in this How-To guide.
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.
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.
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.
Understanding Open vSwitch, an OpenStack SDN component
This tutorial covers the basics of OpenVSwitch.
Workload reference architectures address requirements for deploying OpenStack clouds
Need guidelines to get started with OpenStack? The Enterprise Working Group has your back.
How the new Project Team Gathering event affects OpenStack Ocata
Learn more about this new event and how a shorter cycle impacts the upcoming software release.
Manage resources on AWS with OpenStack Omni
Madhura Maskasky introduces OpenStack Omni, a set of drivers to manage and control resources on AWS.
Your guide to the Certified OpenStack Administrator exam
Answering the common questions around the COA exam: who should take it and how you can prepare.
Tests demonstrate OpenStack NFV interoperability
"Without OpenStack, none of this would be possible," says Carsten Rossenhovel of the vendor-neutral European Advanced Networking Test Center.
The Interoperability Challenge demonstrates app portability
It may have brought out the competitiveness of the participants, but it also demonstrated improvements in app portability.
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.
How to plan your first OpenStack App Hackathon
Victor Diaz chats with David Flanders on his experience planning a hackathon and how to get yours up and running.
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.
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.
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 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.
How to survive your first OpenStack Hackathon
Planning, power naps and a tent will get you through the weekend.
Inaugural OpenStack Days event in China draws thousands
Open source cloud computing aficionados gathered in Bejiing for the two-day event.
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
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 Newton release: what’s next for Sahara and Telemetry
Meet the project team leads (PTLs) and find out how to get involved.
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.
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.
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.
What OpenStack and rock climbing can teach you
Talking to startup founder Madhura Maskasky as part of our Women of OpenStack series.
OpenStack security, piece by piece
Part two of this Stratoscale tutorial addresses common vulnerabilities and what to do about them.
Tighten the security of your OpenStack Clouds
A checklist for common threats from Stratoscale in this two-part tutorial.
Going from startup to established in the OpenStack ecosystem
Blue Box and Mirantis, two successful startup organizations in the OpenStack community, discuss growth, lessons and transformation.
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.
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).
Using Kubernetes to deploy OpenStack
Beyond his demo, Alex Polvi sits down with Mark Collier to discuss the role of Kubernetes and how it can work together with OpenStack.
Key findings from the first user survey of 2016
Heidi Joy Tretheway and Jon Proulx explore the key findings of the most recent user survey, including production deployments and interest in emerging technologies.
Cross project collaboration in the OpenStack community
With more than 50 projects including in the Big Tent, Mike Perez emphasizes the need for cross project collaboration, including more widespread involvement.
The User Experience team focuses on research and creating consistency across projects
The OpenStack UX team launches new studies and a focus on creating consistency across OpenStack projects.
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.
Inclusivity initiatives in the OpenStack community
How the Women of OpenStack and Diversity working groups are creating new programs to address the diversity challenges within the community.
Simon Anderson on what’s next for Aptira
Aptira looks to the future with a focus on meeting the growing global demand for OpenStack.
Thierry Carrez shares Design Summit updates
What will change with the restructuring of the OpenStack Design Summit and what users can expect.
Collaborate or die: OPNFV and OpenStack communities work together to advance NFV
Heather Kirksey, executive director of OPNFV, explains the OPNFV project, its work to help the telecom industry realize network functions virtualization (NFV) as an open source project, and how OPNFV works with OpenStack.
The latest on the OpenStack Community Roadmap
New additions to the Community Roadmap and where we'll see OpenStack go next.
Reflecting on six years of OpenStack Summits: What’s changed?
From 75 to 7,500+ attendees, Mark Collier and Bret Piatt reflect on what's changed about Summits in the past six years.
Federated Identity: What is it, why it matters and its maturity in OpenStack
Tim Bell and Dolph Matthews explain identity federation, why it matters, its maturity in OpenStack and how it can impact organizations like CERN.
The latest updates on rolling upgrades
The latest on rolling upgrades, newly added projects and what it means for operators.
Featured user stories from the Product Working Group
Megan Rossetti and Kei Tokunaga share user stories from the Product Working Group, including bare metal, rolling upgrades and capacity management.
Path the Cloud: Helping enterprises navigate OpenStack
The new "Path to Cloud" booklet helps enterprises navigate their OpenStack journey and establish their cloud.
Experts talk compliance in OpenStack
Experts talk about compliance in the OpenStack ecosystem, what it is and why it matters.
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.
Rackspace talks running an OpenStack public cloud
Rackspace talks about the early days of OpenStack, their public cloud offering, and what OpenStack developments they're looking forward to.
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.
Funneling operator feedback to the OpenStack developer community
Edgar Magana, cloud operations architect at Workday, explains how operators can give feedback to the community, why it's important and how to get started.
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.
What you need to know about OpenStack and container networking
Two core contributors for OpenStack Kuryr discuss the current state of container networking with OpenStack and how the community is addressing users' most common requests.
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.
And the Superuser Award goes to…
AT&T takes the fourth annual Superuser Award.
Top four user talks at the OpenStack Austin Summit
Unsure which talks to pick at the upcoming conference? We've got you covered.
OpenStack User Survey 2016: Key findings
Superuser's TL/DR take on the 60-page report.
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.
Troubleshooting OpenStack: a new book shows you how
Tony Campbell, director of training and certification at Rackspace, guides you through the sticky spots.
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.
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.
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.
Europe’s public cloud offering solidifies with OpenStack
Flexible services, stringent data protection and open APIs are a win for customers
OpenStack upgrading tutorial: 11 pitfalls and solutions
This post contributed by Stratoscale helps you navigate common problems.
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.
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.
Superuser Awards nominations now open
Teams of any size who are innovating with OpenStack while contributing to the community are invited to apply.
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.
Okinawa OpenStack Ops Workshop rides wave of interest
OpenStack operators from the region met during Okinawa Open Days to share insights
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 Nova, Kuryr
Meet the project team leads (PTLs) and find out how to get involved.
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.
OPNFV creates more features, documentation with second release, Brahmaputra
Chris Price, OPNFV technical steering committee chair, gives a sneak preview of Brahmaputra, the second release targeting February 2016, which open doors to different projects doing multi site data centers, different fault management, upgradeability and more documentation on how to work with the platform.
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.
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.
An OpenStack operator’s guidebook: burning issues, tips ‘n tricks and how you can get involved
Jesse Keating, a release lead for the OpenStack product at Blue Box, an IBM Company, discusses Liberty learnings from the Mitaka Summit ops sessions and how operators can provide the their point of view to the developer community.
Bridging the OpenStack deployment fidelity gap
Rob Hirschfeld, OpenStack Foundation board member and CEO, co-founder of RackN, discusses the mission and challenges of deployment fidelity, which aims to prevent expensive reworking, miscommunication and increase the overall efficiency of the OpenStack deployment process.
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.
Tackling diversity in the OpenStack community
Egle Sigler, principal architect at Rackspace and co-chair of the diversity working group, discusses the mission of the group as well as the outcome of the recent survey and what's next.
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.
Creating the perfect match: OpenStack and Network Functions Virtualization
Kyle Mestery, distinguished engineer at IBM and a member of the Technical Committee, discusses how NFV and OpenStack work together, and how users can build the exact solution they want with OpenStack's pluggable framework.
Introducing the Project Navigator and Professional Certification
Jonathan Bryce and Mark Collier, the executive director and COO at the OpenStack Foundation sat down to discuss the new tools announced at the Tokyo Summit and the impact they will have on the community.
Big Tent: why Liberty shifted from the integrated release model
Thierry Carrez, director of engineering at the OpenStack Foundation and chair of the Technical Committee, discusses the Big Tent and why the change was made in the Liberty release.
Rapid growth signals strength of OpenStack community in Japan
Akihiro Hasegawa, one of the Japanese user group organizers shares how much the community has grown and identifies progress and goals for the local OpenStack community in the upcoming year.
The state of open source in 2015
Allison Randal, the president of the Open Source Initiative describes how open source fosters collaboration and drives innovation.
A guide to navigating OpenStack and containers
Lachlan Evenson, cloud platform engineering team lead at Lithium Technologies and Adrian Otto, distinguished architect at Rackspace and Magnum PTL discuss the current state of working with containers and OpenStack and what the future holds.
Investing in the community with the OpenStack Innovation Center
David L. Brown, director of datacenter software planning at Intel and Darrin Hanson, VP and GM, of the OpenStack private cloud at Rackspace discuss how this initiative was created and the training and resources it brings to the community.
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.
Women of OpenStack open doors at the Tokyo Summit and in the community
Tamara Johnston, senior manager of cloud services at EMC, sat down with Allison Price, marketing coordinator of the OpenStack Foundation to discuss this week's Women of OpenStack initiatives and how community members can get involved.
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.
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.
Open Virtual Network tutorial
This tutorial is intended to give you a tour of the basic Open Virtual Network (OVN) features using ovs-sandbox as a simulated test environment.
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 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.
What you need to know about Astara
Henrik Rosendahl, CEO of Akanda, introduces OpenStack's newest project, an open-source network orchestration platform built by OpenStack operators for OpenStack clouds.
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.
Why OpenStack needs to work on its core
Spinning plates, core work and Mirantis ships 7.0 in this week's roundup.
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.
App Developers: First App on OpenStack Tutorial Needs You
The tutorial that guides new developers to deploy their first application on OpenStack is complete for Apache Libcloud and needs help for new languages and SDKs.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Big buys, Swift and separating the froth from the milk...
OpenStack Design Summit Highlights: Vancouver Edition
"One of the key premises of OpenStack is open design," says Thierry Carrez, director of engineering. "We don't come with preconceived ideas...The Liberty cycle is decided here."
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.
Unlocking the cloud: day one of the OpenStack Summit Vancouver
Attendees soared and actual rockets flew across the stage on this exceptional launch day...
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.
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...
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
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.
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.
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.
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."
OpenStack User Groups get a new home
The new portal helps you keep current on OpenStack events near you, wherever you are.
OpenStack heads to Melbourne to CONNECT with local enterprise
Here's your chance to meet with OpenStack thought-leaders from Aptira, EMC, Red Hat and Rackspace.
Superuser weekend reading
Whether you shouldn't touch OpenStack with a barge pole, Kubernetes integration, what hiring managers want and more...
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.
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...
Weekend Reading, 1/30
"We've seen OpenStack customers growing faster than our overall business." -Pat Gelsinger, CEO of VMware
Weekend Reading, 1/23
"Understanding your business’ needs and what’s involved in an OpenStack deployment will help to build the versatile, agile and resilient cloud system that your business wants." -Rajiv Sodhi
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.
Weekend Reading, 1/16
"This is going to be an important year for OpenStack."
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."
Weekend Reading, 1/9
"OpenStack could soon be the software that runs the non-Amazon cloud."
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.
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."
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."
Building an NFV Orchestration Platform with OpenStack
Akhila Chetlapalle, from Tata Consultancy Services, shows the architecture changes that they’ve made to OpenStack NFV, the current features they’ve implemented, and the next road map features.
Pass the Mic User Spotlight: Álvaro López García, IFCA
"Our computing nodes are 99% running on top of OpenStack."
Weekend Reading, 12/5
"OpenStack [...] has been on a meteoric growth curve over the last several years." -Virtualization Review
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.
Weekend Reading, 11/14
"As things stand at the moment, OpenStack looks like a fine example of what the open source development model can achieve."
Weekend Reading, Summit edition
"OpenStack, without question, is a blockbuster."
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.
Weekend Reading, Halloween Edition
"To do list at the Paris #OpenStack summit: hear great user stories, catch up with old friends, eat baguettes."
Pass the Mic User Spotlight: Shilla Saebi
"To me, open source means community, development and transparency."
Weekend Reading, 10/24
"The most important cloud acquisitions this year have one thing in common: OpenStack."
Top 4 User Sessions in Paris
We've collected the top user stories you can't miss at the fall OpenStack Summit
Weekend Reading, 10/17 Juno Edition
The tenth version of OpenStack is upon us, and thanks to 1,419 contributors from 133 companies offers 342 new features and 3,219 bug fixes.
Weekend Reading, 10/10
It's super exciting to see OpenStack being used "under the hood" of all kinds of applications and the use cases that are shaking out as OpenStack's userbase continues to grow.
Video: Case Study — the University of Alabama at Birmingham
Learn how the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Dell teamed up to deploy a private storage cloud infrastructure.
OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter Sept. 26 – Oct. 3
Highlights from the weekly community newsletter
Weekend Reading, 10/3
"There is nothing like a user to say the obvious thing and tell you what you’re doing wrong and what you’re doing great."
Video: Ensuring Trust and Compliance with OpenStack Cloud
Learn how to overcome common security challenges faced in the cloud.
OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter Sept. 19-26
Highlights from the weekly community newsletter.
Weekend Reading, 9/26
"OpenStack's ever expanding ecosystem helps to continue its momentum. I am excited, are you?"
Video: Best Practices Learned Along a Leading Gaming Company’s Path
Challenges, highlights and best practices learned from Big Fish Games' adoption of a hosted private cloud environment.
Video: OpenStack Trove Day
What is Trove, the Database as a Service on OpenStack? How does it function and what does the future hold?
Video: OpenStack Bootstrapping Hour – Mock Best Practices
An overview of best practices with Mock, using Nova code as an example.
OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter Sept. 12-19
Highlights from the weekly community newsletter.
Weekend Reading, 9/19
"OpenStack continues to land on the radars of the major tech giants."
Video: Best Organizational Practices for Cloud Adoption
A panel of experts discuss the ins and outs of organizational cloud adoption.
OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter Sept. 5-12
Highlights from the weekly community newsletter.
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[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!
Weekend Reading, 9/12
"What’s needed now to accelerate the open source revolution for non-tech businesses is a lot more learning—stories, case examples, profiles of success—about how leadership really works in a world increasingly building new value through volunteer communities."
OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter Aug 29-Sept. 5
Highlights from the weekly community newsletter.
Weekend Reading, 9/5
"Open source increases security and privacy, encourages an engaged community and offers the ability to 'look under the hood' to diagnose and resolve issues quickly."
Video: Evolution at USDA — Building a Bazaar in the Cathedral
The team from USDA discusses the evolution of their OpenStack implementation, from concept to production
OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter Aug 22-29
Highlights from the weekly community newsletter.
Quoted!
Open source has a built-in guarantee that users are in control. Always.
OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter Aug 15-22
Highlights from the weekly community newsletter.
OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter Aug 8-15
Highlights from the weekly community newsletter.
Quoted!
OpenStack is expected to be worth $3.3 billion by 2018, why companies should be writing open source software, and more.
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
OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter Aug 1-8
Highlights from the weekly community newsletter.
Quoted!
We're listening in on the biggest conversations in the OpenStack community and clueing you in to the latest. In this week's compilation: examining the future of OpenStack, the travel grant application for the Paris summit, and the OpenStack talent gap.
OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter July 25 – Aug 1
Highlights from the weekly community newsletter.
VIDEO: Building a Business Case for OpenStack
A panel of prominent OpenStack users reveal their perspectives on how to build a compelling business case and overcome potential roadblocks within their organizations.
Your Weekend Reading List, 7/25
In this week's news: the community wishes OpenStack a happy 4th birthday, SAP throws its support behind OpenStack, and the latest book sprint has come to an end
OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter July 11 – 18
Highlights from the weekly community newsletter.
Your Weekend Reading List, 7/18
In this week's news: a name has been chosen for the next release, user groups celebrate OpenStack's 4th birthday around the world, Mirantis and Oracle partner, Red Hat releases Ceph 1.2 and more...
Your Weekend Reading List
In this week's news: Alan Clark on why there will never be a "king" of OpenStack, analysis of Swift's new storage policies, the end to the latest book sprint, and more.
5 Links You Can’t Miss
The latest OpenStack news for your holiday weekend includes: a case study that details how CERN is using OpenStack, reflections from the Atlanta Summit, and a tribute to the community during OpenStack's 4th birthday month.
Quoted!
This week in Quoted! user groups are beginning to celebrate OpenStack's 4th birthday and the community is talking about the value and promise of open source technology.
5 Links You Can’t Miss
In this week's news: enterprises are flocking to the private cloud in droves, PLUMgrid announces its OpenStack Networking Suite, and open source (continues) to eat the world.
5 Links You Can’t Miss
This week: OpenStack in scientific research, Shutterstock's CTO in the spotlight, new trends in adoption, and more.
Quoted!
Users are making their voices heard -- here's what the community is saying this week.
Quoted!
The community is abuzz—listen in to what users are saying this week.
5 Links You Can’t Miss
This week: How-to guides, details about the Juno release, OpenStack commentary, and more.
5 OpenStack Links You Can’t Miss
This is your weekend OpenStack reading list.
Quoted!
The Atlanta Summit is over, but talk about OpenStack hasn't died down.
Quoted! At The Summit
The OpenStack Summit in Atlanta is well underway and the superuser voice is being heard loud and clear.
Quoted!
The OpenStack community has been talking about the Atlanta Summit for months. Now that it's here, take a quick look at how users prepared and what the community is most looking forward to this week.
5 OpenStack Links You Can’t Miss
We gather the latest open source reads -- articles, blogs, and community ramblings -- right here, every week.
User Spotlight: Matt Van Winkle
Matt offers his best advice for new OpenStack users in today's Spotlight post.
Case Study: PayPal, Agility with Stability
PayPal sees OpenStack as the way to enable the agility, availability and innovation neecessary to beat the competition.
Case Study: Intel Uses OpenStack
Intel is using OpenStack to increase interoperability between private and public clouds and to achieve the goal of a federated, interoperable and open cloud as their standard.
User Spotlight: Charles Beadnall
Charles reveals the single most important factor for the success of OpenStack users in 2014 in today's Spotlight post.
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