Performance has always been important to Placement. In a busy OpenStack cloud, it will receive many hits per second. Any slowness in the placement service will add to the latency present in instance creation and migration operations.

When we added support for requesting complex topologies of nested resource providers, performance …

This is a followup to More on Maintainership and OpenStack Denver Summit Reflection. Together these are starting to form the foundation of a series on open source collaboration in the face of the climate emergency and political and social inclusiveness. Starting...

I've decided, if possible, to stop flying to technology …

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 …

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 …