This is a followup to some of the thoughts about being a "maintainer" raised in OpenStack Denver Summit Reflection.

Of the work that I've done in OpenStack, what has felt most relevant to me is the work that has not been related to feature development. In the context of being …

I've had "write a summary of ptg and summit" in my todo system for weeks. The summit was more than a month ago, at the end of April. I've been waiting for inspiration, some sense that I have something useful to say about the event. It hasn't come, I don't …

A while back I wrote about etcd-compute. It's a collection of Python that combines Placement, etcd, and libvirt to provide a very simple system for starting VMs on a collection of hosts. It started out as a non-working learning and exploration tool, but it keeps getting closer to something useful …

I attended Open Infra Days UK in London. When asked to extract a theme from the two days my response boiled down to "people want to run Kubernetes clusters and want the bits underneath to be low fuss." There were many more ideas passed around, but that one was there …