Cool, thank you David, sign me up!:) On 29 January 2018 at 05:30, David Moreau Simard <dmsim...@redhat.com> wrote: > Hi ! > > For those who might be unfamiliar with the RDO [1] community project: > we hang out in #rdo, we don't bite and we build vanilla OpenStack > packages. > > These packages are what allows you to leverage one of the deployment > projects such as TripleO, PackStack or Kolla to deploy on CentOS or > RHEL. > The RDO community collaborates with these deployment projects by > providing trunk and stable packages in order to let them develop and > test against the latest and the greatest of OpenStack. > > RDO test days typically happen around a week after an upstream > milestone has been reached [2]. > The purpose is to get everyone together in #rdo: developers, users, > operators, maintainers -- and test not just RDO but OpenStack itself > as installed by the different deployment projects. > > We tried something new at our last test day [3] and it worked out great. > Instead of encouraging participants to install their own cloud for > testing things, we supplied a cloud of our own... a bit like a limited > duration TryStack [4]. > This lets users without the operational knowledge, time or hardware to > install an OpenStack environment to see what's coming in the upcoming > release of OpenStack and get the feedback loop going ahead of the > release. > > We used Packstack for the last deployment and invited Packstack cores > to deploy, operate and troubleshoot the installation for the duration > of the test days. > The idea is to rotate between the different deployment projects to > give every interested project a chance to participate. > > Last week, we reached out to Kolla to see if they would be interested > in participating in our next RDO test days [5] around February 8th. > We supply the bare metal hardware and their core contributors get to > deploy and operate a cloud with real users and developers poking > around. > All around, this is a great opportunity to get feedback for RDO, Kolla > and OpenStack. > > We'll be advertising the event a bit more as the test days draw closer > but until then, I thought it was worthwhile to share some context for > this new thing we're doing. > > Let me know if you have any questions ! > > Thanks, > > [1]: https://www.rdoproject.org/ > [2]: https://www.rdoproject.org/testday/ > [3]: > https://dmsimard.com/2017/11/29/come-try-a-real-openstack-queens-deployment/ > [4]: http://trystack.org/ > [5]: > http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/kolla/2018/kolla.2018-01-24-16.00.log.html > > David Moreau Simard > Senior Software Engineer | OpenStack RDO > > dmsimard = [irc, github, twitter] > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-operators mailing list > OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators
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