Today, Tuesday here in Hong Kong, the OpenStack Summit began! It kicked off with a beautiful and colorful performance of the Lion dance, followed by some words of welcome from Daniel Lai, CIO of the Hong Kong Office of the Government (video of both here). Then we had the keynotes. Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director of […]
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Code Review for Sysadmins talk at BALUG
October 18th, 2013 by pleia2
On the heels of my trip to Illinois to speak at ACM Reflections | Projections on building a career in open source, I had the opportunity on Tuesday to speak at the Bay Area Linux Users Group (BALUG) on the system the OpenStack Infrastructure team uses to do systems administration. It was a happy coincidence […]
CodeChix OpenStack workshop wrap-up and materials
September 25th, 2013 by pleia2
As I announced in a previous post on September 22nd I ran a CodeChix workshop in Palo Alto on OpenStack. In the weeks leading up to it I worked with my session assistants Ryan Lane and Anita Kuno to hash out our plans for the workshop. Ryan was able to put together an image for […]
OpenStack TripleO Sprint
September 24th, 2013 by pleia2
Last week I headed to the HP office in Seattle to meet up with my colleagues from HP, Red Hat and others for a TripleO Sprint which was proposed in July and fleshed out last month. We started off on Monday by attempting to get everyone set up with a TripleO environment by walking through […]
Hosting a CodeChix OpenStack Workshop in Palo Alto
September 8th, 2013 by pleia2
Several months ago I met Rupa Dachere, founder of CodeChix, “a CA non-profit public benefit organization dedicated to the Education, Promotion and Mentorship of female engineers and students.” Given my work with OpenStack, we chatted about the possibility of doing a workshop on OpenStack for CodeChix. This has now come together! Ryan Lane of Wikimedia […]
Launched git.openstack.org
August 23rd, 2013 by pleia2
On of my projects these past couple months has been reviewing, testing and finally implementing an in-house git repository for the OpenStack project to satisfy the bug Create a git.openstack.org mirror system. Full rationale, from the bug report by Jeremy Stanley: Right now our Gerrit server (review.openstack.org) replicates its Git repositories into /var/lib/git/ and serves […]
OpenStack Infrastructure Bootcamp in NYC
June 30th, 2013 by pleia2
On Wednesday of last week I hopped on a flight to New York City for a meeting with several of my OpenStack Infrastructure colleagues and potential contributors for the first “Infrastructure Bootcamp” ever held! Thursday morning the bootcamp began with a quick overview of expectations and topics we wished to cover and then we went […]
Open Source Sysadmin: Reorganization of the OpenStack Infrastructure Docs
June 4th, 2013 by pleia2
In January I joined the OpenStack Infrastructure team, which manages the continuous integration system for the project, as well as several other applications and sites that the project uses on a day to day basis. My favorite part about all of this is while I’ve spent several years using open source software in my sysadmin […]
OpenStack Design Summit days 3-4
April 19th, 2013 by pleia2
Wednesday morning started off with a Women of OpenStack breakfast where I happened to sit down next to Leslie Hawthorn without realizing it until we introduced ourselves, so that was a pleasant surprise! We’d both been intending to meet for some time. The table we were at also had a couple engineers working on OpenStack […]
OpenStack Design Summit days 1-2
April 16th, 2013 by pleia2
Since my new job is working with the OpenStack infrastructure team, I am able to attend the OpenStack Design Summit this week in Portland, Oregon! I woke up just before 4AM on Monday to take a 6:15AM flight to Portland, putting me in Portland shortly after 8AM and to the conference center around 9AM, at […]