I’ve just emailed this out to the relevant lists, but I figured it can’t hurt to post it here as well… linux.conf.au will be hosting the second OpenStack mini-conference to run in Australia. The first one was well attended, and this mini-conference will be the first OpenStack conference to be held on Australia’s west coast….
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Exploring a single database migration
Yesterday I was having some troubles with a database migration download step, and a Joshua Hesketh suggested I step through the migrations one at a time and see what they were doing to my sqlite test database. That’s a great idea, but it wasn’t immediately obvious to me how to do it. Now that I’ve…
Nova database continuous integration
I’ve had some opportunity recently to spend a little quality time off line, and I spent some of that time working on a side project I’ve wanted to do for a while — continuous integration testing of nova database migrations. Now, the code isn’t perfect at the moment, but I think its an interesting direction…
Merged in Havana: fixed ip listing for single hosts
Nova has supported listing the fixed ips for a single host for a while. Well, except for that time we broke it by removing the database call it used and not noticing. My change to fix that situation has just landed, so this should now work again. To list the fixed ips used on a…
Michael’s surprisingly unreliable predictions for the Havana Nova release
I should start out by saying that because OpenStack is an open source project, it is hard to know exactly what will land in Havana — the developers are volunteers, and sometimes things get in the way of them doing the work they intended. However, these are the notes I wrote up on the high…
Faster pip installs
Last week with the help of the lovely openstack-infra people, I discovered that you can have a local cache of pip downloads. This speeds up rebuilding test environments when you need to jump between branches with different dependencies. Its as simple as chucking something like: export PIP_DOWNLOAD_CACHE=~/cache/pip …into your .bashrc or equivalent.
Merged in Havana: configurable iptables drop actions in nova
LaunchPad bug 1013893 asked nicely if the drop action for iptables rules created by nova-network could be configured. The idea here is that you might want to do something other than a plain old drop — for example logging before dropping. This has now been implemented in Havana. To configure the drop action, set the…
Upgrade problems with the new Fixed IP quota
In the last few weeks a new quota has been added to Nova covering Fixed IPs. This was done in response to LaunchPad bug 1125468, which was disclosed as CVE 2013-1838. To be honest I think there are some things the vulnerability management team learned the hard way with this disclosure. For example, we didn’t…
Havana Nova PTL elections
This is just a quick reminder that there are only a couple more days to vote in the Nova PTL elections for the Havana cycle. If you’re eligible to vote, you should have a voting URL in your email. The candidates: Russell Bryant — announcement Michael Still — announcement The incumbent PTL, Vishvananda Ishaya, has…
OpenStack at linux.conf.au 2013
As some of you might know, I’m the Director for linux.conf.au 2013. I’ve tried really hard to not use my powers for evil and make the entire conference about OpenStack — in fact I haven’t pulled rank and demanded that specific content be included at all. However, the level of interest in OpenStack has grown…