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

Red Hat software engineer and individual director at OpenStack Russell Bryant shares his thoughts on the many different facets of OpenStack HA and how work can be done in or around OpenStack to better support legacy workloads.

Meanwhile, Jodi Smith over at Mirantis explains how the HP-championed project TripleO appears to be losing steam. The project was originally intended to simplify deployment by using OpenStack as an undercloud on which to deploy OpenStack, but attention has shifted to using container technology to approach OpenStack implementation.

History fact of the day: Rear Admiral Grace Hopper coined the phrase, "It’s easer to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission." In the early days of OpenStack, it was just that. Thierry Carrez believes that now "we pushed the regulation and "ask for permission" cursor so far we actually prevent things from happening." See his take on why the Technical Community should step away and act as an appeals board.

And finally, Arthur Cole explains on the Tesora blog how OpenStack is undergoing the tech equivalent of a complete psycho-analysis. Read on to see his thoughts on OpenStack’s survival.

New post: Five years in: Charting the OpenStack galaxy – Superuser http://t.co/RmMumzOfd7

— Mark Collier 柯理怀 (@sparkycollier) March 9, 2015

Yet another reason you to
come #OpenStack
Summit in May > VIDEO of killer whales in Inlet http://t.co/XEh0XUKPGC via @VIAwesome

— Diane
Mueller (@pythondj) March 13,
2015

You can’t compare
OpenStack the project to CloudStack or OpenNebula. They aren’t
equivalent. You have to compare them to OpenStack Nova.

— Randy
Bias (@randybias) March 12,
2015

Great write up with
concrete actions from @sdague
out of the OpenStack mid-cycle ops meetup, to better serve users. http://t.co/KYzvVrBSJg

— Mark
Collier (@sparkycollier) March
11, 2015

Today we validated
RHEL7-based stemcells running CloudFoundry on top of OpenStack; an
important milestone for our FinServ & Govt customers.

—
Joshua McKenty (@jmckenty) March 10,
2015

On March 10th, #OpenStack Cinder finished 43 feature targeted blueprints in ONE milestone! I'm so proud of my team! https://t.co/L7xsGirkEb

— Mike Perez (@Thingee) March 13, 2015

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