Hi, It's been about 3 weeks since the last status update, so here's the latest:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OpenStack_status_report_2012-06-15 Historical archives are here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OpenStack_status_reports Cheers, Pádraig. (appended below for convenience) = Distro news = Fedora 17 was released on May 29th containing the [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/OpenStack_Essex OpenStack Essex "Feature"] Chris Wright discusses [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmWdYJTsKbM#t=166s OpenStack in the Fedora 17 release video]. == openstack-nova == Nova updates for Fedora 16, 17, EPEL 6 and rawhide, were released for a security issue where [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-2654 security groups fail to be set correctly] Nova packages now enable libguestfs image inspection, which allows injection to more complex guest images. This is supported by libguestfs updates to the inspection functionality. == openstack-keystone == Derek Higgins identified and fixed important keystone security issues: * [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=824945 Tokens remain valid after a user account is disabled] * [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=824939 Tokens remain valid following a password compromise and subsequent password change] * [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=828794 Once a token is created/distributed its expiry date can be circumvented] Alan Pevec backported these to the essex release and updated the packages == novnc == novnc packages were finalized to support VNC from a browser to guests through the dashboard.<br/> There were tested successfully by CERN who shared [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Getting_started_with_OpenStack_EPEL#VNC_access setup and testing notes] Yong Sheng Gong from IBM also documented [https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/e93514d3-c4f0-4aa0-8844-497f370090f5/entry/openstack_vnc_console18?lang=en OpenStack VNC setups] == OpenStack Folsom in rawhide == Fedora Rawhide has been mostly updated to the Folsom milestone 1 OpenStack release: * [http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=openstack-keystone.git;a=commit;h=d75edaf2 keystone] * [http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=openstack-glance.git;a=commit;h=214824b0 glance] * [http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=openstack-nova.git;a=commit;h=8d4333a nova] * [http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=python-django-horizon.git;a=commit;h=0176a7c horizon] * [http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=python-novaclient.git;a=commit;h=d09fbdf python-novaclient] Also there was a [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/OpenStack_Folsom Fedora 18 Folsom Feature page] prepared, summarizing the tasks for Folsom support = OpenStack upstream news = == Bug triaging day == About 20 people on and off, many from the Fedora community, participated in the upstream OpenStack bug triaging day, which yielded some [http://fnords.wordpress.com/2012/06/08/bug-triage-day-results/ very beneficial results] == Fedora/RHEL/Centos docs == Anne Gentle wrote and guided through review a significant update to the [http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/install/yum/content/ Fedora/RHEL/Centos specific information] in the upstream docs: == LVM backed guest images == GridDynamics after a dedicated review process, commited [https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/e0540df support for LVM backed guest images]. This significantly improves performance in their testing, over guest images run from a standard file system. As part of this they refactored the guest image handling code, making it much more maintainable. == Red Hat upstream work == There is too much to track in detail the OpenStack upstream activity of Red Hat developers, but here is a link showing the [http://goo.gl/aewXr last 3 weeks of Red Hat OpenStack upstream development] = Misc = == OpenStack + OpenShift presentation == A recent presentation on the synergies of [http://www.slideshare.net/fallenpegasus/openshift-openstack-fedora-awesome OpenStack and OpenShift] was made available. == CERN's plans for OpenStack == Tim Bell from CERN (who use Red Hat flavored systems) has presented [http://cern.ch/go/NH9w plans for running OpenStack on 15K systems] (running 300K VMs) by 2015. _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list cloud@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud
