Superuser weekend reading

Here’s the news from the OpenStack world you won’t want to miss — the musings, polemics and questions posed by the larger community.

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In Case You Missed It

Percona ambassador George O. Lorch gives a great guide on how getting started as an OpenStack contributor. Lorch suggests a mentor may come in handy when it comes to the mechanics. Read on to see his other tips!

Rackspace’s Anne Gentle describes her journey working on OpenStack documentation. Gentle compares it to her first taste of "cool, disruptive technology applied to an old problem," namely KangaROOS, those sneakers with Velcro-fastened pockets that were the hottest thing on the playground back in the 1980s.

Database-as-a-service technologies offer considerable promise in helping address many data-related challenges, explains Tesora’s Amrith Kumar on his InfoWorld blog post. Kumar describes five specific ways OpenStack trove can help manage databases. In related news, Tesora also compiled a spreadsheet that includes the most popular DBaaS solutions on the market here.

Steve Martinelli over at IBM offers up advice on leveraging OpenStackClient as your unified command line interface. "It’s fitting that I publish this write up at this current time. OpenStackClient v1.0.3 was released last week and this release includes a large number of feature requests and bug fixes. But the even more exciting news is that the OpenStack Technical Committee voted in favor to include OpenStackClient as part of it’s list of official projects!"

The agenda for the #OpenStack Vancouver Summit is now LIVE: http://t.co/NDjr1p4ea0 Hope to see you there!

— OpenStack (@OpenStack) March 20, 2015

If your #OpenStack Summit session wasn't accepted, submit a talk for the #vBrownBag TechTalks: http://t.co/jp2MBHvhjQ

— OpenStack (@OpenStack) March 20, 2015

hah, the openstack summit accepted my talk, see you folks in vancouver! https://t.co/50Rg79U7tq weeee

— termie (@termie) March 20, 2015

Another 600 servers added to the CERN #openstack cloud today. Takes us to nearly 4000 and over 100,000 cores. Getting ready for #lhcrestart

— Tim Bell (@noggin143) March 20, 2015

https://twitter.com/amaged/status/578985803881152512

More than 200 blueprints implemented in 6 weeks, the #OpenStack kilo-3 development milestone is now completed: http://t.co/ahWozcIgBk

— Thierry Carrez @[email protected] (@tcarrez) March 20, 2015

#OpenStack has come a long way since these were part of the conference schwag. pic.twitter.com/JtlDKp8921

— Mark T. Voelker @[email protected] (@marktvoelker) March 19, 2015

Gr8 time in Germany this week talking with customers & EMC colleagues re: #OpenStack. Many thanks 2 @chrisbanck 4 being such a gr8 host.

— Kenneth Hui (@kenhuiny) March 20, 2015

#OpenStack is going into everything we do and we don't even know it … like 3M … says the panel at #interzoneio

— Alex Danzinger (@danzzinger) March 11, 2015

https://twitter.com/_Chris_Moore/status/575705090759090176

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