I've recently made some fairly substantial changes to the container used throughout the Placement Container Playground series, so I figure an update is in order. The previous update was Playground 7.

The main changes involve the management of configuration. Throughout this process I've been trying to align myself with what …

OpenStack is in the process of merging several of its mailing lists into one, openstack-discuss. The hope is to break down some of the artificial and arbitrary boundaries between developers, users, operators, deployers, and other "stakeholders" in the community. We need and want to blur the boundaries. Everyone should be …

Last week I attended the OpenStack summit in Berlin. Of the several summits I've attended, this one was the most laid back. I imagine other people had different experiences, but my experience involved no surprises, no scandals, I neither got yelled at nor yelled at someone, and at least so …

One day a while back, I started blabbing out loud about some quick ways to experiment with a live placement service and was (very appropriately) reminded that I make a ton of incorrect assumptions about the familiarity people have with things I do most days. Statements like "just spin up …