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Inside Open Infrastructure: October 2024

Hear the latest around the upcoming PTG, the arrival of OpenStack’s 30th release, OpenInfra events and more!

October 2, 2024
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Spotlight On: Project Teams Gathering

The next OpenInfra Project Teams Gathering (PTG) is right around the corner – October 21-25, 2024! 

This virtual event is free to attend for those interested in participating in technical discussions around OpenInfra projects – planning for upcoming releases, iterating on solutions, raising and addressing user feedback and more. For a full team list of those participating, visit the registration page. 

If your team missed the deadline to sign up to participate in the October 2024 PTG, please reach out to [email protected] immediately to coordinate being added to the team list.

Teams are currently working on building out their schedules. What are they going to be discussing? Check out the team etherpads on the PTGBot site. If there is a topic you want to discuss, we encourage you to get in touch with them and add it to their agenda. Engagement from the larger OpenInfra community is highly encouraged! We need all perspectives represented in the PTG discussions to make sure projects like Kata Containers, StarlingX, and OpenStack continue to meet the needs of users and are easy to leverage by operators. 

See you at the OpenInfra PTG!

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OpenInfra Foundation News

OpenStack: Open source software for creating private and public clouds

  • OpenStack’s 30th coordinated release, 2024.2 (codenamed “Dalmatian”), is now available! Congratulations to the 487 individuals who contributed to produce yet another on-time release packed with improvements. This is an interim (“not-SLURP”) version for people who like to upgrade more often and get faster access to new features in support of things like AI and HPC workloads, better security, and user interface enhancements. Join us tomorrow for an information-packed episode of OpenInfra Live where we’ll interview community leaders and get the scoop on the latest updates in OpenStack 2024.2!

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

  • The latest, 3.9.0 release is now available!
  • The Kata Containers Architecture Committee (AC) election has just started! Stay tuned for announcements later in the month to learn who the new and re-elected AC members are.
  • Catch the Kata Containers community at the upcoming virtual Project Teams Gathering event later in October! You can find the agenda and notes in the planning etherpad.

OpenDev Collaboratory: Free Software Needs Free Tools

  • The default OpenDev Zuul CI system test node is now Ubuntu Noble.
  • Diskimage-builder 3.34.0 has been released. Diskimage-builder can now build images with 4096 byte block sizes. This enables booting built images on disk hardware without support for smaller block sizes.

StarlingX: A fully featured cloud for the distributed edge

  • The StarlingX community has just reached Milestone 3 for in the 10.0 release cycle. Stay tuned for the upcoming release to be available later this year!
  • The StarlingX Technical Steering Committee and Project and Technical Lead elections have just started. Keep an eye out for announcements later in the month to learn who the new leaders are in the community.

Zuul: Stop merging broken code

  • Zuul 11.1.0 has been released. This release includes a number of new features for richer project and job configuration as well as bug fixes. See the release announcement for more information.
  • Watch this presentation from the Open Infra Asia Summit and learn to run your own Zuul using Software Factory.

OpenInfra UPP: University Partnership Program

  • Interested in what it’s like to be a mentor? Matthew Oliver and Tim Burke from OpenStack Swift shared their experiences mentoring students attending Carnegie Mellon University – Doha. 
  • A new semester is kicking off at Boston University. Students taking the Fundamentals of Cloud Computing have begun to select projects and we are pleased that Kata Containers was chosen! Mentors Aurelien Bombo, Archana Choudhary, and Saul Paredes are helping the students get started.
  • Attending OID NA and interested in finding out more about the UPP? Mark your calendar for Kendall Nelson’s talk: Students in Open Source: The OpenInfra University Partnership Program.

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