Lwood-20160612

June 13, 2016 at 18:29 · Filed under Lwood, OpenStack

Introduction

Welcome to Last week on OpenStack Dev (“Lwood”) for the week just past. For more background on Lwood, please refer here.

Basic Stats for week 6 June to 12 June 2016 for openstack-dev:

  • ~556 Messages (up about 20% relative to last week)
  • ~191 Unique threads (up about 24% relative to last week)

Traffic up quite a bit this week – back to within about 5% of the long term average.

Notable Discussions – openstack-dev

New OpenStack Security Notice

Nova and Cinder key manager for Barbican misuses cached credentials (OSSN 0063)

From the summary “During the Icehouse release the Cinder and Nova projects added a feature that supports storage volume encryption using keys stored in Barbican. The Barbican key manager, that is part of Nova and Cinder, had a bug that could cause an authorized user to lose access to an encryption key or allow the wrong user to gain access to an encryption key.”

More information and discussion in the original post or the OSSN itself.

Golang not to be given blanket approval for use in OpenStack

While it generated relatively little list traffic in the week past, the TC met and decided not to add golang to the list of official OpenStack development languages.  The door was however left open to accept its use on a project by project basis – in your humble correspondent’s opinion a reasonable middle ground.

The TC meeting minutes are here – the section in question starts at 20:20:04. You can also read the Change in question.  Last but by no means least Monty Taylor posted an eloquent rationale for his “no” vote here and is, I think, worthy of your time to read irrespective of your view on the matter – a nice demonstration of how to express a view on a contentious topic and respect differing views along the way.

StackViz – a neat Visualisation utility

Tim Buckley announced that StackViz has been enabled for all devstack-gate jobs and pointed interested parties at this example output.

As Tim describes it “StackViz is a visualization utility for generating interactive visualizations of jobs in the OpenStack QA pipeline and aims to ease debugging and performance analysis tasks. Currently it renders an interactive timeline for subunit results and dstat data, but we are actively working to visualize more log types in the future.”

The example output looks pretty slick and it’s had some glowing feedback on the list :)

Higgins now Zun

Hongbin Lu gave a heads up that the recently announced container management service Higgins is being renamed to Zun due to some project name overlaps.  The renaming thread itself kicked off late last month here in a post from Shu Mutou.

API Working Group’s Weekly Newsletter & Guidelines for review

…is now a regular item in the Further Reading & Miscellanea section below… :)

Notable Discussions – other OpenStack lists

OpenStack Summit Call for Presentations

Allison Price noted that the Call for Presentations for the Summit is now open.

Upcoming OpenStack Events

Midcycle

Don’t forget the OpenStack Foundation’s Events Page for a list of general events that is frequently updated.

People and Projects

PTL/Core nominations & changes

Further Reading & Miscellanea

Don’t forget these excellent sources of OpenStack news – most recent ones linked in each case

Random things I read this week;

  • Jon Oxer’s rather neat kitchen tile hack on superhouse.tv
  • WeeWX – Open Source weather station software

This edition of Lwood brought to you by Boston (Boston), Booker T Jones (The Road From Memphis) Bon Jovi (Greatest Hits with the odd Track Skip), Gary Moore (Wild Frontier) amongst other tunes.

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