Inside open infrastructure: News Bulletin from the OpenStack Foundation

Welcome to the very first edition of the OpenStack Foundation Open Infrastructure Newsletter, a digest of the latest developments and activities across open infrastructure projects, events and users. Sign up to receive the newsletter and email [email protected] to contribute.

The Berlin Summit is a wrap!
The open infrastructure community gathered in Berlin recently to share their stories and collaborate. Superuser collected over 50 things you need to know to get caught up from the Summit!

Over 300 session videos are now available here.
We kicked off a community effort to document the Four Opens. Learn about the philosophy that drives our OpenStack Foundation community and contribute your knowledge and experience!
Save the date and register for the Open Infrastructure Summit + Project Teams Gathering in Denver, Colorado, the week of April 29, 2019.

OpenStack project news
OpenStack is an open-source integration engine that provides APIs to orchestrate bare metal, virtual machines and container resources on a single network.

Hear a 5-minute technical update on OpenStack from Berlin, plus case studies from Oerlikon ManMade Fibers, Volkswagen, OVH and more.
Read the Vision for OpenStack clouds, a living document created by the OpenStack Technical Committee to capture the OpenStack community’s vision for the output of the OpenStack project as a whole as it evolves.
Subscribe to the new openstack-discuss mailing list, created to simplify discussions around the OpenStack project and unify the legacy collection of lists devoted developers, operators and special interest groups (SIGs).
Rico Lin has proposed the creation of a new Autoscaling SIG. This group will coordinate activities and docs across a number of OpenStack components involved in autoscaling, like Heat, Senlin and Monasca.

Over the last year, the OpenStack Foundation has expanded the markets for open infrastructure (hybrid cloud, container infrastructure, edge computing, CI/CD and artificial intelligence & machine learning) and introduced four new pilot projects. Updates on each of these projects and how you can get involved are provided below.

Airship
Airship is a collection of loosely coupled but interoperable open source tools that declaratively automate cloud provisioning, embracing containers as the unit of infrastructure delivery at scale.

Get introduced to Airship with the 5-minute keynote video then watch AT&T demonstrate the resiliency of a 5G network cloud managed with Airship.
The Airship team announced their 1.0 release candidate at the Berlin summit, and is sailing full speed ahead for a full 1.0 release in early 2019.
Try Airship-in-a-Bottle to get started with an all-in-one deployment or Treasure Map will guide you to a full deployment. Get engaged with the community through IRC or the Airship mailing lists at airshipit.org.

Kata Containers
Kata Containers are extremely lightweight virtual machines that feel and perform like containers, but provide the workload isolation and security advantages of VMs.

The Kata team just released version 1.4. Catch up on what’s new with the 5-minute keynote update from Berlin and the latest release notes.
Attending KubeCon / CloudNativeCon NA next week? Meet with Kata Architecture Committee members by attending one of the Kata Containers sessions, or stop by booth S17 in the expo.
Want to try Kata? Use the install guides to get started and plug into community Slack and mailing lists at katacontainers.io.

StarlingX
StarlingX is a fully featured cloud for the distributed edge, building on existing services such as Ceph, OpenStack and Kubernetes and complementing them with new services like configuration and fault management with focus on high availability (HA), quality of service (QoS), performance and low latency.

Watch the 5-minute keynote overview and read the project overview.
The team is actively working on containerization and a strategy to move to the master branch of OpenStack for the related services and work with the community on enhancements to further support edge and IoT use cases.
The community is planning a contributor meetup for January 15-16, 2019.
Learn more about the software and get involved at starlingx.io.

Zuul
Zuul is a Git-driven CI system born out of the OpenStack community that integrates code reviews and automated testing. It’s built for a world where development, testing, and deployment of applications and their dependencies are one continuous process.

Watch the five-minute keynote overview, then check out the BMW keynote to see how they use Zuul for their development workflow.
The latest release of Zuul now has support for Kubernetes-based nodepool resources.
If you recently updated to Zuul 3.3.0, be sure to upgrade to the latest Zuul security release, version 3.3.1 (versions earlier than 3.3.0 are unaffected).
Get involved at zuul-ci.org.

Questions / Feedback / Contribute
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Tags: airship, Kata Containers, open source community, OpenStack, StarlingX, Zuul