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Recap OpenStack Summit Vancouver 2018

Posted by on May 25 2018 in openstack, ansible

in my last vacation I spent most of the time to visit the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver. It's my 4th Summit and it's one of the best Summit. The bar is very high vor the upcoming event in Berlin.

Wie organisiere ich einen Hackathon

Posted by on 05 Feb 2018 in general

Wikipedia schreibt: Ein Hackathon (Wortschöpfung aus „Hack“ und „Marathon“) ist eine kollaborative Software- und Hardwareentwicklungsveranstaltung. [...] Ziel eines Hackathons ist es, innerhalb der Dauer dieser Veranstaltung gemeinsam nützliche, kreative oder unterhaltsame Softwareprodukte herzustellen.

Wie geht sowas?

Ansible-OTC 2018

Posted by on 03 Jan 2018 in cloud-computing, ansible

After another year with work and usage of Ansible-OTC I want to share a project update and the vision for 2018.

Role collection. There are a lots of roles in the Github Repo. This is good to show the work of OTC-API and for demonstration, but bad for overview and automation. I tried to collect functions following the CRUD standard into new roles. I.e. otc_ecs should Create, Read, Update, and Delete ECS resources on OTC: https://github.com/eumel8/ansible-otc/tree/dev/roles/otc_ecs
Input-Handler. It was a good idea to use ini-files for configuration items, because it's good readable and easy to unterstand. Previously I used yml-files for the same function, other projects are using json. To split this function more from the Ansible roles I created different handlers for ini, yml and json, so the customer can choice: https://github.com/eumel8/ansible-otc/tree/dev/playbooks/vars
Testing. Ansible developement goes really fast, so code can sometimes break because things aren't working anymore in newer versions of Ansible or Python. I started to play with Travis and included some functional tests: https://travis-ci.org/eumel8/ansible-otc
Documentation. There are multiple Markdown files for use cases and role description. I switched to Sphinx, which is more portable and documentation is nearly to the code like the role documentation. A published version is on http://ansible-otc.readthedocs.io/en/dev/?badge=latest

As you can see the next release of Ansible-OTC will contain a lot of changes, so it will be easier to use OTC with Ansible.

What's up OpenStack Summit Sydney

Posted by on 06 Nov 2017 in cloud-computing, openstack

Just another OpenStack Summit is started yesterday. It's one of the smaller events because it's far away in Australia ("only" 2300 attendees are registered), but 55% comes from APAC and if you imagine that 12 from 24 Gold Sponsors are coming from China then you can see how important is this area. The newest Gold Member and winner of the Super User Awards is Tencent Cloud.

People from 55 countries are together and Germany is already in the top 10.

What's new in OpenStack Community:

Open Infrastructure Integration. Users of OpenStack interacting more and more within other projects beside OpenStack. The Foundation will pay attention on this fact and support collaboration with other communities and projects. At least the "BigTent" is going away, this was the idea to collect OpenStack core projects, but divided this to others.
OpenLab Initiative. The user experience in multi-cloud and application frameworks should be improved. Among others Huawei and Open Telekom Cloud will pay attention on this topic
Public Cloud Passport Program. The count of OpenStack deployments increased tremendously in the last months (following OpenStack User Survey +95% to 2016). Promoting this and start with collaboration is the goal of the Passport Program
Financial Services is one of the newcomer in OpenStack Services. Check out the Lessons Learned session
Contributor Portal. The idea starts at the PTG in Denver to invent a new landing page for contributors.
Multi-Cloud/Edge-Computing are the next big things. Regarding the user survey nearly 48 % of the OpenStack user are interacting also with other clouds. 87 % believe that OpenStack is the right tool for Edge Computing

OpenStack is all about community. There are four steps for OpenSource integration:

Find the common use case
Collaborate across communities
Build the required new technology
Test everything end to end

This end-to-end responsibilty is really new. I believe this will change in the OpenStack community in the near future and a lot's of new projects will come in to have a share with the open-minded people and the experience of the last 7 years.

OpenStack Project Teams Gathering (PTG) Denver

Posted by on 19 Sep 2017 in inet, cloud-computing, openstack

Der OpenStack Design Summit ist tot. Es lebe das Project Teams Gathering, PTG!

OpenStack Project Teams Gathering (PTG) Denver

Bereits zum zweiten Male haben sich die OpenStack Project-Teams vor Ort getroffen - diesmal in Denver, der Hauptstadt des US-Bundesstaates Colorado, gelegen am Fusse der Rocky Mountains mit weiten Blicken ueber das Land bei malerischen 28-30 Grad Celsius. Einige Impressionen der Stadt sieht man hier

OpenStack I18n translation check site

Posted by on 12 Jul 2017 in cloud-computing, puppet, openstack, container

Long time ago (2015) I've started my OpenStack contributing process in OpenStack I18n team. The team is responsible for translating OpenStack dashboard, tools and documentation in other languages. One thing from the wishlist of the team was the Translation Check Site. And that was the biggest challenge for the team.

Open Telekom Cloud - Connect Cheat Sheet

Posted by on 11 Jun 2017 in cloud-computing, openstack

Open Telekom Cloud (OTC) is a public cloud service based on OpenStack powered by Deutsche Telekom. [1]
Sometimes people ask: is it OpenStack? Or not? The answer is: Of course,yes. No. Maybe. I'm afraid.
One thing is certain: #OTC #RunsOnOpenstack
Technology is provided by Huawei, one of the Top 4 contributor in OpenStack [2]. So you have core technology with slightly different services in OTC. Now there are different ways to connect to the cloud:

OpenStack Summit Boston

Posted by on 21 Mai 2017 in cloud-computing, openstack

OpenStack Summit Boston
(english version page 2)

Gerade ist er zu Ende gegangen - der "neue" OpenStack Summit. Diesmal ohne Design Summit, der fand schon einige Wochen vorher als Project Team Gatering (PTG) in Atlanta statt. Es gab Diskussionen, ob der OpenStack Summit so zur reinen Marketingveranstaltung verkommt. Aber Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director der OpenStack Foundation, hoerte nicht auf zu betonen, dass es eine Konferenz fuer die Entwickler war, ist und bleibt. Und so kamen sie dann alle: Mehr als 5000 angemeldete Teilnehmer aus 63 Laendern. Ueber 1000 verschiedene Organisation, ein Heer von Firmen als Sponsoren.

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Ostpreussen - eine Entdeckungsreise

Posted by on 03 Mai 2017 in general, privmsg, cloud-computing, welt

Wenn man nach Ostpreussen reisen will, muss man heute in den Kaliningrader Oblast. Das Gebiet ist etwa 100 km breit und 160 km lang. Eingeschlossen von den den EU-Laendern Polen und Litauen liegt es direkt an der Ostsee. Verwaltungstechnisch gehoert es zu Russland.

Zauberei mit Juju - Serverless Computing und Juju Charm

Posted by on 01 Mär 2017 in cloud-computing, container

Serverless Computing ist die naechste Stufe auf dem Weg in den Cloud-Himmel. Waehrend in allen anderen Stufen zuvor sich der Anwender noch mit Computern, Netzwerken und Betriebssystem damit rumschlagen musste, ist er nun von allem rein gewaschen: Er kuemmert sich nur noch um seine Daten.