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Upgrades in Nova: Database Migrations

This is a part of a series of posts on the details of how Nova supports live upgrades. This post focuses on how to do database schema changes with minimal disruption to the rest of the deployment, and with minimal downtime.

on November 27, 2015

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.

on November 11, 2015

Kilowatts for Humanity harnesses the wind and sun to electrify rural communities

OpenStack-powered DreamCompute cloud computing helps keep rural microgrids up and running

on November 10, 2015

Eliminating “Not-Invented-Here” Syndrome

Why embracing this notion is the key to unlock an open data center infrastructure, according to Boris Renski, the co-founder and CMO of Mirantis.

on November 3, 2015

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.

on November 2, 2015

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.

on November 2, 2015

A block storage battle and mobile eats the world

OpenStack Summit Tokyo attendees had plenty to say about what they are taking away from the recent four-day conference...

on October 30, 2015

And the Superuser Award goes to…

NTT Group takes the third annual Superuser Award

on October 26, 2015

Whipping up a frenzy in the cloud

Never a dull moment: sunsets, spin outs, releases, cash injections and more in this week's roundup.

on October 23, 2015

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.

on October 19, 2015

Give us Liberty, or give us death!

Ryan Burkhardt, vice president of OpenStack at GoDaddy, identifies key features of the Liberty release and how his team plans to contribute at the Mitaka Design Summit.

on October 17, 2015

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.

on October 16, 2015

Coming soon: Superuser TV!

Contact [email protected] if you would like to participate.

on October 9, 2015

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.

on October 8, 2015

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.

on October 6, 2015

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.

on October 6, 2015

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

on October 6, 2015

Tokyo Superuser Awards Finalist: GoDaddy

GoDaddy serves over 13 million customers and virtual machines with month-to-month growth of over 25 percent.

on October 6, 2015

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.

on October 6, 2015

How storage works in containers

Nick Gerasimatos, senior director of cloud services engineering at FICO, dives into the lack of persistent storage with containers and how Docker volumes and data containers provide a fix.

on September 22, 2015

Why you should take TryStack for a spin now

The free OpenStack testing sandbox is back -- and it's bigger, badder and better than ever.

on September 9, 2015

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.

on September 4, 2015

Dive in deep with a new book dedicated to Trove

Ahead of Trove Day, the authors of the first book on OpenStack's database-as-a-service talk about common errors and getting started with contributions.

on August 24, 2015

Got ideas or opinions for Superuser? Bring them on!

If you're coming to the Mid-Cycle Meetup, OpenStack Silicon Valley -- Superuser wants to hear your ideas for stories and your takeaways from the events...

on August 17, 2015

Ceilometer, Gnocchi and Aodh: Liberty progress

What you need to know about updates to OpenStack's telemetry service from Julien Danjou, principle software engineer at Red Hat.

on August 6, 2015

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.

on July 30, 2015

Meet Superuser

The future runs on open infrastructure. On Superuser you’ll learn about the mix of open technologies building the modern infrastructure stack including OpenStack, Kubernetes, Kata Containers, Airship, StarlingX, Ceph, Cloud Foundry, OVS, OpenContrail, Open Switch, OPNFV, Zuul and more. Whether you’re pursuing a private, public or multi-cloud approach, Superuser is the place skill up, plan […]

Kubernetes community lands 1.0 release

Two users talk about running Kubernetes on OpenStack at Google’s launch event.

on July 22, 2015

Rising from the ashes: Ceilometer redefines its mission

An active contributor shares what you need to know about changes in OpenStack's telemetry service.

on July 14, 2015

Superuser weekend reading

OpenStack explained to teens, the architecture of Alanis Morisette, and yes, everything you know is wrong...

on July 10, 2015

Upgrading Nova to Kilo with minimal downtime

A high-level guide for a rolling Nova upgrade, from Dan Smith, principal software engineer at Red Hat.

on July 7, 2015

Superuser weekend reading

Playing peek-a-boo with search terms, OpenStack birthday celebrations and Godzilla...

on July 3, 2015

Superuser weekend reading

The role of consumers vs. contributors in OpenStack, Cinder 101 and cloud deployment, Ikea style.

on June 26, 2015

At CERN, storage is the key to the universe

As the research center breaks records smashing particles, it crunches petabytes...

on June 22, 2015

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...

on June 19, 2015

Shifting gears: how cloud is revolutionizing TV post-production

Thanks to OpenStack, DigitalFilm Tree employs multiple clouds to squeeze 3,600 hours of content into one-hour television show hits

on June 15, 2015

Superuser weekend reading

The Matrix, Mars vs. Venus and what's keeping you up at night...

on June 12, 2015

How the cloud can cut red tape

4,000 websites into just one: Mexico to launch ambitious citizen service portal with OpenStack.

on June 8, 2015

Superuser weekend reading

Cloud company consolidation, whether OpenStack is kryptonite or catnip for startups and more...

on June 5, 2015

What building Legos can teach you about open source

OpenStack Upstream Training unites play with open-source development

on June 2, 2015

Superuser weekend reading

Big buys, Swift and separating the froth from the milk...

on May 29, 2015

How to get more women involved in tech? Communication, leadership and mentors

Breakfast working session highlights opportunities to accelerate women participation and visibility in OpenStack community

on May 28, 2015

Think FICO is a credit scoring company? Nope: it’s about large-scale analytics

OpenStack allows us to meet scale and cut costs, says Nick Gerasimatos director of engineering and cloud services at FICO.

on May 27, 2015

Superuser weekend reading: Summit Vancouver edition

Decomposing OpenStack myths, time for prime time and goslings: there's a lot going this week...

on May 22, 2015

Top 10 quotes: State of the Stack

This unofficial keynote talk from Randy Bias, vice president of technology at EMC, is always worth hearing. Here's his take on what's working in OpenStack, what's broken and how to fix it.

on May 21, 2015

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.

on May 19, 2015

Superuser weekend reading

Heading to the Vancouver Summit, a technology layer cake and the scramble for IP addresses...

on May 15, 2015

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...

on May 8, 2015

Superuser weekend reading

The weight behind the Kilo release, Geocaching in Vancouver and how the cloud could save you from foolish pursuits.

on May 1, 2015

Superuser weekend reading

How a small team can deliver big impact with OpenStack, foodie picks for the Vancouver Summit and whether is cloud computing is the next mass-market car industry...

on April 24, 2015

Superuser weekend reading

OpenStack playbooks, picking the new user group logos, serious Star Wars discussions and more...

on April 17, 2015

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

on April 15, 2015

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.

on April 15, 2015

Superuser Awards Finalist: National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou

The science and technology project team actively contributes commits, ranking 22 in the OpenStack Juno cycle.

on April 15, 2015

Superuser Awards Finalist: Walmart

The retail giant with 100,000 cores and a desire to give back to the community.

on April 15, 2015

Real innovation? It means keeping cloud solutions simple

"People have deployed over-engineered solutions to problems that could have been solved very simply. Not all problems require an infinitely scalable hyper-cloud solution," says Aptira CTO Kavit Munshi.

on April 14, 2015

Superuser weekend reading

OpenStack in the classroom, back to the future with storage tape, what happens when the haters meet for sushi and more.

on April 10, 2015

Superuser Awards

The Superuser Awards recognize teams using Open Infrastructure to meaningfully improve business and differentiate in a competitive industry, while also contributing back to the open source communities. They aim to cover the same mix of open technologies as our publication, namely OpenStack, Kubernetes, Kata Containers, Airship, StarlingX, Ceph, Tungsten Fabric, Open vSwitch, Zuul, Ansible and […]

Superuser weekend reading

The finish line for Kilo is in sight after another successful sprint! This week’s roundup also covers the news about Nebula going dark, Wall Street victories from Go Daddy and Red Hat and more.

on April 3, 2015

Game changer: inside Adobe’s new Marketing Cloud architecture

Adobe Digital Marketing is transforming its IT infrastructure with VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO) for the Adobe Marketing Cloud.

on March 30, 2015

Superuser weekend reading

It's your turn to design the shirts on our back! Also in this week's round-up, PayPal powers its private cloud with OpenStack, CERN's Tim Bell gets to the core of matters and more.

on March 25, 2015

Superuser weekend reading

Why OpenStack is as disruptive as Velcro pockets on sneakers, the final agenda for the Vancouver Summit and more in this week's round-up...

on March 20, 2015

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.

on March 19, 2015

Superuser weekend reading

How far you can go with asking for forgiveness rather than permission, the future of OpenStack's core mission and more.

on March 13, 2015

Check out what’s under the hood at TryStack

Dan Radez uncovers the gear that will power OpenStack's free testing sandbox

on March 11, 2015

Superuser weekend reading

VMware + Telcos snuggle up to OpenStack, hiring managers seek OpenStack expertise and free upstream training...

on March 6, 2015

Superuser weekend reading

Whether you shouldn't touch OpenStack with a barge pole, Kubernetes integration, what hiring managers want and more...

on February 27, 2015

CloudCamp Bangladesh sparks conversation on the future of cloud

80 percent of attendees were students eager to learn the value of open source.

on February 27, 2015

Romancing the devs: another reason Walmart Labs went open source

"There are great engineers all over the world, and your company is probably fighting to get as many of them as possible. Supply doesn’t meet demand, so it's important to do everything you can to help attract and retrain talent," says Dion Almaer of Walmart Labs.

on February 24, 2015

Superuser Weekend Reading

“Like a lemming at the proverbial sea cliff, however, the enterprise would do well to avoid blindly following the group. With data infrastructure becoming so fungible these days, the ability to craft optimized solutions is cheaper and easier than ever, even on traditional data center infrastructure." Arthur Cole, Tesora.

on February 19, 2015

Contributing to open cloud projects without losing your mind

Understanding the release cycle, making your first contributions count and considering the culture will go a long way.

on February 19, 2015

Welcome to the wild west of networking and cloud infrastructure

“We’re at the very beginning,” says Chris Wright of Red Hat. There are "cool components" galore, but also more than a few “pain points."

on February 18, 2015

Three cloud computing myths, debunked

"Cloud is not a single monolithic substance that somehow just works for everyone. Neither is a particular type of cloud the answer to everything," says Egle Sigler, a principal architect with Rackspace private cloud and recently elected OpenStack Individual Director.

on February 16, 2015

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...

on February 13, 2015

Simple auto scaling environment with Heat

A simple tutorial for getting started with Heat, OpenStack's orchestration service.

on February 9, 2015

Superuser Weekend Reading

Will there ever be a 'Vanilla' OpenStack? What about eating your competitor's lunch? This and more musings to whet your appetite from the OpenStack community this week...

on February 6, 2015

Weekend Reading, 1/30

"We've seen OpenStack customers growing faster than our overall business." -Pat Gelsinger, CEO of VMware

on January 30, 2015

Musings and Predictions from Superuser’s Editorial Advisors

"I really believe that the new features in the Kilo release will be focused not only on adjusting the code, but on the architecture behind it." - Alejandro Comisario, Nubeliu

on January 29, 2015

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

on January 23, 2015

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.

on January 20, 2015

Kilo Update: Zaqar

Flavio Percoco, Zaqar PTL, describes the updates we can expect to see in the Kilo release cycle.

on January 16, 2015

Kilo Project Update: Glance

Nikhil Komawar, Glance Project Technical Lead, explains the upcoming features we can expect in the Kilo release cycle.

on January 16, 2015

Weekend Reading, 1/16

"This is going to be an important year for OpenStack."

on January 16, 2015

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."

on January 13, 2015

Kilo Update: Keystone

Morgan Fainberg, Keystone PTL, explains the upcoming features we can expect in the Kilo release cycle.

on January 9, 2015

Kilo Update: Trove

Nikhil Manchanda, Trove's PTL, details the project's plans for Kilo

on January 9, 2015

Weekend Reading, 1/9

"OpenStack could soon be the software that runs the non-Amazon cloud."

on January 9, 2015

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."

on December 23, 2014

Kilo Update: Ceilometer

Eoghan Glynn, Ceilometer PTL, explains the upcoming features we can expect in the Kilo release cycle.

on December 19, 2014

Kilo Update: Horizon

David Lyle, OpenStack Dashboard PTL, lets us in on the updates that are planned for Horizon in the Kilo cycle.

on December 17, 2014

Kilo Update: Swift

Last week, Swift PTL John Dickinson recapped the key conversations, upcoming features, and challenges surrounding object storage in the Kilo release.

on December 16, 2014

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."

on December 16, 2014

PTL Overview: Juno to Kilo Roadmap in Neutron

Kyle Mestery walks through the updates to Neutron that are planned for the next OpenStack release.

on December 12, 2014

Weekend Reading, 12/12

"OpenStack development is on fire. The number of OpenStack Foundation members has exceeded 18,000 individuals over the past two years, spanning beyond 140 countries and 2,500 contributing developers."

on December 12, 2014

Nova Updates – Kilo Edition

Last week, Michael Still, the Project Technical Lead for Nova Compute, recorded the first video in the Kilo PTL series. Read on to learn about Nova updates that will be coming in the new release.

on December 9, 2014

Pass the Mic User Spotlight: Álvaro López García, IFCA

"Our computing nodes are 99% running on top of OpenStack."

on December 9, 2014

Weekend Reading, 12/5

"OpenStack [...] has been on a meteoric growth curve over the last several years." -Virtualization Review

on December 5, 2014

My Key Learning from Paris

The French food is amazing, of course, but lessons from the OpenStack Summit go beyond boeuf bourgignon. By Matt Fischer

on December 1, 2014

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."

on November 14, 2014

Docker Meets Swift: A Broadcaster’s Experience

Last week Eran Rom and Alberto Messina presented on RAI - Radiotelevisione Italiana's prototype of Docker-powered Swift clusters at the OpenStack Summit.

on November 11, 2014

Weekend Reading, Summit edition

"OpenStack, without question, is a blockbuster."

on November 7, 2014

Bringing Research to the Cloud

How the NeCTAR Research Cloud is breaking down silos, improving collaboration, and dramatically reducing the time it takes to access disparate data sources in the research community.

on November 7, 2014

Paris Summit Recap, Day 3

If you're not in Paris, catch up on the OpenStack Summit here.

on November 5, 2014

Paris Summit Recap, Day 2

If you're not in Paris, catch up on the OpenStack Summit here.

on November 4, 2014

Paris Summit Recap, Day 1

If you're not in Paris, catch up on the OpenStack Summit here.

on November 3, 2014

And the Superuser Award goes to…

The winning team is presented the very first Superuser Award alongside fellow nominees and Honorable Mention.

on November 3, 2014

Weekend Reading, Halloween Edition

"To do list at the Paris #OpenStack summit: hear great user stories, catch up with old friends, eat baguettes."

on October 31, 2014

Overstock.com’s Pet Adoption Site Gets Tails Wagging

OpenStack powers free animal rescue program

on October 30, 2014

Pass the Mic User Spotlight: Shilla Saebi

"To me, open source means community, development and transparency."

on October 28, 2014

Weekend Reading, 10/24

"The most important cloud acquisitions this year have one thing in common: OpenStack."

on October 24, 2014

Top 4 User Sessions in Paris

We've collected the top user stories you can't miss at the fall OpenStack Summit

on October 24, 2014

What You Should Know about the Ops Meetup in Paris

We sit down with Tom Fifield, Community Manager for the OpenStack Foundation, to talk about what the Paris Summit has to offer for operators

on October 22, 2014

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.

on October 17, 2014

How the Ada Initiative is Encouraging Diversity in the Open Source Community

...and how OpenStack is helping. By Mike Perez

on October 17, 2014

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.

on October 10, 2014

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.

on October 10, 2014

Ops Meetup Coming to Paris Summit Next Month

The User Committee is now taking ideas for topics from the community

on October 7, 2014

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."

on October 3, 2014

Main features of Hypervisors reviewed

What you need to understand the hypervisor-support matrix.

on October 2, 2014

Weekend Reading, 9/26

"OpenStack's ever expanding ecosystem helps to continue its momentum. I am excited, are you?"

on September 26, 2014

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.

on September 26, 2014

How to Use Keystoneclient Sessions

Learn how to handle transport security, and add new authentication mechanisms without having to do it for every client.

on September 25, 2014

Report from the Mid-Cycle Meetup for Operators

Why the mid-cycle meetup is a trend to watch in the evolution of software development in the cloud era.

on September 24, 2014

Weekend Reading, 9/19

"OpenStack continues to land on the radars of the major tech giants."

on September 19, 2014

Dox a tool that run python (or others) tests in a docker container

Make integrating docker containers for testing easy and reliable.

on September 19, 2014

Horizon’s new features introduced in Juno cycle

What happened during Horizon's Juno development cycle? The blueprints list 31 new features, here are some of the larger ones.

on September 17, 2014

[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!

on September 15, 2014

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."

on September 12, 2014

Cloud&Heat brings a new kind of startup to your basement

Thanks to OpenStack, this German startup is fueling the data furnace market.

on September 5, 2014

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."

on September 5, 2014

Triaging and classifying a gate failure

How to go from a failure to a fix: debugging gate failures.

on September 4, 2014

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

on September 4, 2014

Quoted!

Open source has a built-in guarantee that users are in control. Always.

on August 29, 2014

Quoted!

Why OpenStack is written in python, survey results that indicate OpenStack is a favorite among open source projects, OpenStack Barbican, and more.

on August 22, 2014

Using Ceilometer with Graphite

Get scalable, real-time compute graphs up and running.

on August 19, 2014

Quoted!

OpenStack is expected to be worth $3.3 billion by 2018, why companies should be writing open source software, and more.

on August 15, 2014

The Backbone to Intelemage’s Infrastructure

Intelemage has taken deployment time down to seconds since implementing their OpenStack solution.

on August 15, 2014

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

on August 12, 2014

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.

on August 8, 2014

User Group Spotlight: Iran & Atlanta

We had such an overwhelming response from user groups interested in sharing their stories with us in July, that we're extending the user group spotlights into August.

on August 7, 2014

Kili Empowers Tech Startups in East Africa With Inexpensive Public Cloud

Adam Nelson speaks with Superuser about how his company is bringing cutting-edge cloud infrastructure, based on OpenStack, to Kenya and surrounding East African countries.

on August 7, 2014

Splitting up Git Commits

Simplify code review with git's built in tools. Here's how.

on August 6, 2014

If You Have Enough Fast, Anything Is Possible

How Disney built a modern cloud with open source.

on August 5, 2014

Your Weekend Reading List, 8/1

In this week's news: Tapjoy joins OpenStack, Matt Asay responds to open source critics, Foundation execs speak to InfoWorld at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, and more.

on August 1, 2014

User Group Spotlight: Brazil & North Carolina

July marks OpenStack's 4th birthday and we're celebrating this year by spotlighting user groups from around the world.

on July 31, 2014

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

on July 25, 2014

User Group Spotlight: Australia & Kenya

July marks OpenStack's 4th birthday and we're celebrating this year by spotlighting user groups from around the world.

on July 24, 2014

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...

on July 18, 2014

User Group Spotlight: South Korea & Kentucky

July marks OpenStack's 4th birthday and we're celebrating this year by spotlighting user groups from around the world.

on July 15, 2014

Enter Fulfills Vision of Becoming a True Open Cloud Provider

How Enter’s belief in openness has led to the continued success of the company

on July 15, 2014

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.

on July 11, 2014

User Video: MercadoLibre

Alejandro Comisario and Leandro Reox discuss the evolution of OpenStack within their organization.

on July 10, 2014

User Group Spotlight: Greece

July marks OpenStack's 4th birthday and we're celebrating this year by spotlighting user groups from around the world.

on July 9, 2014

User Group Spotlight: Belgium

July marks OpenStack's 4th birthday and we're celebrating this year by spotlighting user groups from around the world.

on July 8, 2014

Enterprises and App Developers Have More Control as Swift Gains Storage Policies

Today, the OpenStack Foundation announced the addition of storage polices to OpenStack Swift, one of the most significant feature add to date

on July 8, 2014

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.

on July 3, 2014

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.

on July 2, 2014

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.

on June 27, 2014

Quoted!

This week in Quoted! the community is talking about how OpenStack is used in the entertainment and telecommunications industries and the large market opportunity that still exists in the enterprise.

on June 26, 2014

Implementing High Availability Instances with Neutron using VRRP

A look into how to use the Allowed-Address-Pairs extension, newly added in Havana.

on June 24, 2014

Multiple external networks with a single L3 agent

See how Neutron supports running multiple networks with just one L3 agent.

on June 23, 2014

5 Links You Can’t Miss

In this week's news: RedHat acquires eNovance, Tesora survey finds that OpenStack enterprise adoption is high, OpenStack hits 100,000 code reviews, and more.

on June 20, 2014

Quoted!

This week in Quoted! the OpenStack community discusses the best strategy for going head to head with Amazon, chimes into on GigaOm Structure, and talks scale.

on June 19, 2014

VIDEO: Team Changing Cultures

Superusers open up about OpenStack community impact on their internal teams

on June 18, 2014

5 Links You Can’t Miss

This week: OpenStack in scientific research, Shutterstock's CTO in the spotlight, new trends in adoption, and more.

on June 13, 2014

Quoted!

Users are making their voices heard -- here's what the community is saying this week.

on June 12, 2014

VIDEO: Superuser Testimonials —Benefits of Competitive Advantage

Superusers at the Atlanta Summit reveal the competitive advantages they experience as part of the OpenStack community

on June 11, 2014

Quoted!

The community is abuzz—listen in to what users are saying this week.

on June 4, 2014

5 Links You Can’t Miss

This week: How-to guides, details about the Juno release, OpenStack commentary, and more.

on June 3, 2014

VIDEO: Mark Collier Interviews AT&T, Sony, DigitalFilm Tree

The second day of the Atlanta Summit feature keynotes from superusers about how OpenStack helps them innovate quickly and stay agile.

on May 30, 2014

Catching up with the Original Superusers

An in-depth look at a Cisco, CERN, Bloomberg and new OpenStack user DigitalFilm Tree, and what got them to where they are today

on May 27, 2014

Summit Session: Verizon’s NFV Strategy, Lab Specs

Last week [Fred Oliveira](https://www.linkedin.com/pub/fred-oliveira/0/933/1aa) presented on Verizon’s NFV (Network Function Virtualization) strategy and related lab specs at the OpenStack Summit.

on May 22, 2014

Secure Messaging with Kite

A valuable discussion around protocol for secure messaging using Kite.

on May 22, 2014

Quoted!

The Atlanta Summit is over, but talk about OpenStack hasn't died down.

on May 21, 2014

Case Study – Georgia Tech University

At the OpenStack Summit in Atlanta last week, we heard from Didier Contis on how and why Georgia Tech's College of Engineering switched to OpenStack Swift for storing large quantities of research data

on May 20, 2014

Cisco’s Lew Tucker On The Cloud Of The Future

Tucker explains how the data center is being transformed in a Summit breakout session last week.

on May 20, 2014

VIDEO: Jonathan Bryce Interviews Disney, Wells Fargo

The Atlanta Summit's opening keynote featured interviews with two superusers, who talked about their role in the community and how OpenStack is helping them stay competitive, flexible, and fast.

on May 13, 2014

Quoted! At The Summit

The OpenStack Summit in Atlanta is well underway and the superuser voice is being heard loud and clear.

on May 13, 2014

Welcome, Superuser

What makes a superuser a superuser? By Jonathan Bryce

on May 12, 2014

Helpful Gerrit Queries (Gerrit 2.8 Edition)

A rundown of some handy Gerrit queries: Labels, Labels With Users, Labels With Self, File Matching, and how to learn more.

on May 10, 2014

CERN Cloud Architecture – Update

Get the scoop on the latest changes to CERN's cloud infrastructure.

on May 9, 2014

User Video: Randall Sobie, University of Victoria Institute of Particle Physics

Randall Sobie, a research scientist and professor within the Institute of Particle Physics at the University of Victoria, is working on initiatives like the ATLAS Experiment to better understand what makes up our universe.

on May 8, 2014

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.

on May 8, 2014

User Video: Rackspace, Continuous Delivery

Troy Toman, the Vice President of Cloud Infrastructure Products at Rackspace, provides an inside look at how Rackspace is thinking about continuous delivery.

on May 8, 2014

Multiple Private Networks with Open vSwitch GRE Tunnels and Libvirt

Ramon Acedo shares how to get set up on infrastructure requiring multiple networks on a typical home lab.

on May 8, 2014

User Spotlight: Matt Van Winkle

Matt offers his best advice for new OpenStack users in today's Spotlight post.

on May 8, 2014

Case Study: PayPal, Agility with Stability

PayPal sees OpenStack as the way to enable the agility, availability and innovation neecessary to beat the competition.

on May 7, 2014

User Spotlight: Charles Beadnall

Charles reveals the single most important factor for the success of OpenStack users in 2014 in today's Spotlight post.

on May 7, 2014