I took much longer to post this than intended. Not that I expect anyone to have been sitting on the edge of their chair waiting for it, but still… It’s been more than month since my last post, and not a darned thing has changed. Monitoring today still sucks. In the last installment I ranted [...]
Monitoring today sucks. Big time. It sucks so bad, it’s not even funny. The amount of time spent configuring stuff, dealing with problems when it’s already too late, and the amount of things your monitoring system could be monitoring, but isn’t, are all staggering. I’ll be spending a couple of posts whining about this. Who [...]
I’d like to take a couple of minutes of your time to talk about testing of OpenStack. Swift has always had very good test coverage, and Glance also does pretty well, so I’ll mostly be focused on Nova. (Psst… If you can’t be bothered to read the whole thing, just skip down to the how [...]
We use PPA’s quite heavily in OpenStack. Each of the core projects have a trunk PPA and a milestone-proposed PPA. Every commit to our bzr trunk branch results in an upload to the trunk PPA, and every commit to our milestone-proposed bzr branch results in an upload to (you guessed it) the milestone-proposed PPA. Additionally, [...]
—–BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE—– Hash: SHA512 (Thanks to Colin Watson for the template for this post) I’ve finally gotten around to setting up a new, strong (4096 bit) RSA- based GPG-key, and will be transitioning away from my old 1024 bit DSA key. The old key will continue to be valid for some time, but [...]
I got good feedback on last week’s post about the stuff I’d achieved in Openstack, so I figured I’d do the same this week. We left the hero of our tale (that would be me (it’s my blog, I can entitle myself however I please)) last Friday somewhat bleary eyed, hacking on a mountall patch [...]
With OpenStack’s second release safely out the door last week, we’re now well on our way towards the next release, due out in April. This release will be focusing on stability and deployability. To this end, I’ve set up a HudsonJenkins box that runs a bunch of tests for me. I’ve used Jenkins before, but [...]
Unhappy with the current state of VMBuilder, I recently decided to take a look at Hudson, hoping it can help improve quality going forward. Hudson is a “continuous integration” tool. This means that it’s a tool you use to apply quality control continuously rather than only either when you’re feeling bored or when a release [...]
Let it be no secret that I’m unhappy with the state of VMBuilder in Lucid (and in general for that matter). Way too many regressions crept in and I didn’t have time to fix them all. I still expect to do an SRU for all of this, but every time I try to attack the [...]
For years now, my blog has been powered by my own blogging engine. I wrote my own because I wanted to not have to run PHP on my web server, and it was a handy way to get familiar with Django. However, I now work for a company that, among many other things, offers web [...]
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