I've had a few persistent complaints in my four and half years of working on OpenStack, but two that stand out are:
The use of RPC—with large complicated objects being passed around on a message bus—to make things happen. It's fragile, noisy, over-complicated, hard to manage, hard to …
Hello! Here's placement update 19-01. Not a ton to report this week, so this will mostly be updating the lists provided last week.
As mentioned last week, there will be a meeting next week to discuss what is left before we can pull the trigger on deleting the …
Today the OpenStack placement service has reached something of a milestone: It is now possible to install it from PyPI and make it do its thing. Here's a quick shell script that demonstrates (without keystone). It requires a working python3 development environment but is otherwise self-contained.
Because keystone is not …
Welcome to the first placement update of 2019. May all your placements have sufficient resources this year.
A few different people have mentioned that we're approaching crunch time on pulling the trigger on deleting the placement code from nova. The week of the 14th there will be a …