All | 2018-08-10
Project Mulligan’s ArchitectureThis is the second and final part of series describing Project Mulligan, the OpenStack Redo. If you missed the first part go read it. It is about changes I’d make […]
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Posts about OpenStack
All | 2018-08-10
Project Mulligan – OpenStack RedoJess Frazelle’s tweet recently got me thinking. 1 What if I could go back and undo basically the last eight years and remake OpenStack (whatever “OpenStack” has come to entail)? […]
All | 2015-01-06
Understanding reservations, concurrency, and locking in NovaImagine that two colleagues, Alice and Bob, issue a command to launch a new virtual machine at approximately the same moment in time. Both Alice’s and Bob’s virtual machines must […]
Community | 2014-09-26
Answering the existential question in OpenStackThere have been a slew of threads on the OpenStack Developer mailing list in the last few months that touch on overall governance and community issues. Thierry Carrez’s “the future […]
Gerrit | 2014-02-18
Setting Up an External OpenStack Testing System – Part 2In this third article in the series, we discuss adding one or more Jenkins slave nodes to the external OpenStack testing platform that you (hopefully) set up in the second […]
Gerrit | 2014-02-14
Setting Up an External OpenStack Testing System – Part 1This post is intended to walk somone through the process of establishing an external testing platform that is linked with the upstream OpenStack continuous integration platform. If you haven’t already, […]
Articles | 2014-01-23
Understanding the OpenStack CI SystemThis post describes in detail the upstream OpenStack continuous integration platform. In the process, I’ll be describing the code flow in the upstream system — from the time the contributor […]
All | 2013-06-10
Pushing revisions to a Gerrit code reviewMartin Stoyanov recently asked an excellent question about the proper way to push revisions to a changeset in Gerrit. This is a very common question that folks new to Gerrit […]
Gerrit | 2013-05-29
Quick Gerrit review reminder on inline commentsFor those of you new to Gerrit, remember that when you make inline comments in a patch review, you need to click the “Review” button and then the “Publish Comments” […]
Chef | 2013-05-22
New Launchpad project for tracking bugs on Chef cookbooksYesterday, I created a Launchpad project to be used for tracking bugs and feature requests for the new OpenStack Chef cookbooks house on Stackforge. Please do file bugs as you […]