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Moving on..

By On 2011-09-02 · 1 Comment

Seeing as the election for the OpenStack Project Policy Board is going on, it seems only fair to announce that I quite soon no longer will be working for Rackspace. Instead, I will be working (still on OpenStack) for Nebula. If this is material to your vote, I apologise for not disclosing this earlier, but [...]

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Testing of OpenStack

By On 2011-08-18 · 1 Comment

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 [...]

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PPA management tools

By On 2011-06-17 · 5 Comments

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, [...]

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New GPG key – Please help :)

By On 2011-06-15 · Leave a Comment

—–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 [...]

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Another week of Openstack stabilisation

By On 2011-02-21 · 1 Comment

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 [...]

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A week into OpenStack’s third release cycle…

By On 2011-02-11 · 2 Comments

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 [...]

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Moving duplicity (and Deja-Dup) backups

By On 2011-01-20 · Leave a Comment

In my last blog post I said that I had moved my backups from an external disk to Rackspace Cloud Files and promised I’d explain how. Ok, so why bother? I had about 100 GB of data that was being backed up. I didn’t want to upload 99% of that, have my wifi go bonkers, [...]

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It only took me 20 years..

By On 2011-01-14 · 13 Comments

tl;dr: I now have daily backups of my laptop, powered by Rackspace Cloud Files (powered by Openstack), Deja-Dup, and Duplicity. I’ve been using computers for a long time. If memory serves, I got my first PC when I was 9, so that’s 20 years ago now. At various times, I’ve set up some sort of [...]

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Openstack Nova in Maverick

By On 2010-10-11 · 21 Comments

Ubuntu Maverick was released yesterday. Big congrats to the Ubuntu team for another release well out the door. As you may know, both Openstack storage (Swift) and compute (Nova) are available in the Ubuntu repositories. We haven’t made a proper release of Nova yet, so that’s a development snapshot, but it’s in reasonably good shape. [...]

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OpenStack is open for business

By On 2010-07-19 · 9 Comments

Moments ago Rackspace announced the OpenStack project. Not only is this awesome news in and of itself, it also means that I can finally blog about it The Rackspace’s IaaS offering consists of two parts: Cloud Servers and Cloud Files. Incidentally, OpenStack (so far, at least) has two main components to it: A “compute” compenent [...]

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