In my previous posting on the Circumference I said that I wanted to get the eight Raspberry Pi nodes to netboot from the front end processor so I could more easily manage the nodes on which I wanted to install nova-compute. This post provides a very quick update on those …

This is placement update 18-24, a weekly update of ongoing development related to the OpenStack placement service.

It's been quite a while since the last one, mostly because of travel, but also because coming to grips with the placement universe takes some time. Catching up will mean that this update …

Here's TC Report 24. The last one was 4 weeks ago, itself following a gap. In the intervening time new TC members (Graham Hayes, Mohammed Naser, and Zane Bitter) and a new Chair (Doug Hellman) have found their feet very well, we had a successful and moderately dramatic OpenStack Summit …

I've been working in the virtualisation and cloud space for a few years now, but for many of the experiments I want to do, having access to hardware that is local and visible to me makes thinking about the stuff I'm exploring easier. This is especially the case when wanting …