OpenStack Ceilometer Havana-1 milestone released

Yesterday, the first milestone of the Havana developement branch of Ceilometer has been released and is now available for testing and download. This means the first quarter of the OpenStack Havana development has passed!

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31 May 2013 | Tags: openstack ceilometer

Rant about Github pull-request workflow implementation

One of my recent innocent tweet about Gerrit vs Github triggered much more reponses and debate that I expected it to. I realize that it might be worth explaining a bit what I meant, in a text longer than 140 characters.

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10 May 2013 | Tags: github openstack gerrit

OpenStack Design Summit Havana, from a Ceilometer point of view

Last week was the OpenStack Design Summit in Portland, OR where we, developers, discussed and designed the new OpenStack release (Havana) coming up.

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25 Apr 2013 | Tags: openstack ceilometer

Announcing Climate, the OpenStack capacity leasing project

While working on the XLcloud project (HPC on cloud) it appeared clear to us that OpenStack was missing a critical component towards resource reservations.

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25 Mar 2013 | Tags: openstack climate

OpenStack Ceilometer and Heat projects graduated

The OpenStack Technical Committee have voted these last weeks about graduation of Heat and Ceilometer, to change their status from incubation to integrated.

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27 Feb 2013 | Tags: openstack ceilometer

Cloud tools for Debian

Recently, I’ve worked on the cloud utilities that are provided as standard in Ubuntu, and I ported them to Debian. Let’s see how that brings Debian to the cloud!

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13 Feb 2013 | Tags: debian ubuntu openstack

Going to FOSDEM 2013

For the first time, I’ll be at FOSDEM 2013 in Brussels on Sunday 2nd February 2013.

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29 Jan 2013 | Tags: fosdem openstack

Extending Swift with middleware: example with ClamAV

In this article, I’m going to explain you how you can extend Swift, the OpenStack Object Storage project, so it performs extra action on files at upload or at download time.

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22 Jan 2013 | Tags: swift clamav openstack

Ceilometer bug squash day #1

In order to start the year in a good mood, what’s the best than squashing some bugs on OpenStack?

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24 Dec 2012 | Tags: openstack ceilometer

OpenStack France meetup #2

I was at the OpenStack France meetup 2 yesterday evening.

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06 Nov 2012 | Tags: openstack ceilometer

Inside Synaps, a CloudWatch-like implementation for OpenStack

A few days ago, Samsung released the source code of Synaps, an implementation of the Amazon Web Service CloudWatch API for OpenStack.

Being a developer on the Ceilometer project, I’ve been curious to look on this project and how it could overlap with Ceilometer or other projects like Heat.

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22 Oct 2012 | Tags: openstack ceilometer heat synaps

Ceilometer 0.1 released

After 6 months of development, we are proud to release the first release of Ceilometer, the OpenStack Metering project. Ceilometer. This is a first and amazing milestone for us: we follow all other projects by releasing a version for Folsom!

Using Ceilometer, you should now be able to meter your OpenStack cloud and retrieve its usage to build statistics or bill your customer!

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12 Oct 2012 | Tags: openstack ceilometer

Ceilometer, the OpenStack metering project

For the last months, I’ve been working on a metering project for OpenStack, so it’s time to talk a bit about it.

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27 Jul 2012 | Tags: openstack ceilometer

OpenStack Swift eventual consistency analysis & bottlenecks

Swift is the software behind the OpenStack Object Storage service.

This service provides a simple storage service for applications using RESTful interfaces, providing maximum data availability and storage capacity.

I explain here how some parts of the storage and replication in Swift works, and show some of its current limitations.

If you don’t know Swift and want to read a more “shallow” overview first, you can read John Dickinson’s Swift Tech Overview.

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23 Apr 2012 | Tags: openstack swift python

10 years as a Debian developer

Ten years ago, I joined the Debian project as a developer.

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24 Feb 2012 | Tags: debian openstack xen emacs awesome vhffs tuxfamily

My OpenStack work

Like I already wrote here last week, I’ve been heavily working on OpenStack for the last weeks.

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16 Dec 2011 | Tags: openstack debian

New job, new blog

It has been a while since I blogged but I’ve been very busy, with my new job and this new blog!

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07 Dec 2011 | Tags: work openstack python debian