Fedora OpenStack projects
First of all, a handy link worth bookmarking is from the preview "Fedora Packages" service, which gives a handy way to drill down to details and status of all the Fedora OpenStack projects
OpenStack Folsom Design Summit
Fedora Presence
The OpenStack Folsom design summit is taking place April 16-20 and Fedora will have a presence, details of which are maintained at:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OpenStackSummitConf_April2012 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cloud_Marketing_Collateral/OpenStack_in_Fedora Includes details of what's new in OpenStack in Fedora 17
Session proposals for the Folsom design summit are still open, and the current list is available at http://summit.openstack.org/
Proposals from Fedora contributors
Dependency management design: http://summit.openstack.org/sessions/view/46 Common configuration patterns: http://summit.openstack.org/sessions/view/56 Stable branch maintenance: http://summit.openstack.org/sessions/view/29 openstack-common library: http://summit.openstack.org/sessions/view/28 glance backend storage capabilities: http://summit.openstack.org/sessions/view/78 Smoke testing realistic deployment: http://summit.openstack.org/sessions/view/66 Versioning the Nova RPC APIs: http://summit.openstack.org/sessions/view/95 Resource rationing in Glance: http://summit.openstack.org/sessions/view/113
OpenStack Security Issues
Dan Prince identified two security issues:
CVE-2012-1585 Long server names grow nova-api log files significantly (public Thursday, March 29th, 1500UTC) CVE-2012-1572 Extremely long passwords can crash Keystone (public Tuesday, March 27th, 1500UTC)
These were promptly addressed through Russell Bryant on the http://openstack.org/projects/openstack-security/ team.
The process for handling and releasing security updates for OpenStack in Fedora is now documented at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OpenStack_vulnerability_management
Fedora 17 Updates
Getting Started guide
Testing OpenStack Essex on Fedora 17 continues, with the setup instructions being kept up to date, and improved.
For example Cole Robinson updated the instructions to use OpenStack commands rather than euca2ools: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Getting_started_with_OpenStack_on_Fedora_17
Release Candidate packages
Alan Pevec made a Fedora 17 preview repo available for providing the latest openstack packages irrespective of release freeze scheduling: http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/apevec/openstack-preview/fedora-17/
Fedora 17 has currently got Essex RC1 releases of nova, glance, keystone, quantum, and swift 1.4.8 available.With the emphasis on testing and fixing before the final release there have been subsequent upstream fixes:
https://review.openstack.org/#q,project:openstack/nova+branch:milestone-proposed,n,z https://review.openstack.org/#q,project:openstack/glance+branch:milestone-proposed,n,z https://review.openstack.org/#q,project:openstack/keystone+branch:milestone-proposed,n,z https://review.openstack.org/#q,project:openstack/quantum+branch:milestone-proposed,n,z
Other updates not included in the above lists are for example
support libvirt images on GlusterFS https://review.openstack.org/5606
The final Essex releases with the above fixes are being prepared and tested. Subsequent updates may also be included in the Fedora packages like:
Eoghan Glynn's quota headroom reporting - https://review.openstack.org/5910 Fix nova issue with --libvirt_nonblocking: https://review.openstack.org/#change,6164
Alan Pevec has been polishing Swift packages, in conjunction with testing from Derek Higgins:
- support for multiple swift instances: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=openstack-swift.git;a=commitdiff;h=6a53f5b1 - add man pages: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=openstack-swift.git;a=commitdiff;h=dae45a61 - additional init scripts: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/807170 - include default configs: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/807179 - SELinux issues: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/809198
Other updates
The python-eventlet package used by OpenStack was updated to fix resource leaks: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=python-eventlet.git;a=blob;f=dummythread_leak.patch;hb=HEAD
Fedora specific changes have been made too, including:
- Fix process restarting with systemd and KillMode=process:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/805942
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/805947
- glance switched to MySQL by default rather than sqlite
Following on from OpenStack test day observations, SELinux fixes have been included to support new OpenStack services:
- policy for quantum: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/760054 - policy for nova-cert: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/801352
Misc News
Russell Bryant has continued to work on Fedora support in devstack, which is a script to setup openstack services for development on a single node
- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OpenStack_devstack
Adam Young then used and documented that to setup his environment
- http://adam.younglogic.com/2012/03/fedora-16-devstack/
New Fedora OpenStack packagers have joined: Joe Breu (rackerjoe) and Garry Kotton (gkotton)
Lorin Hochstein updated the upstream OpenStack manuals to include information on Fedora "Virtual Machine" images
There were a couple of blogs relating to OpenStack and Fedora:
http://adam.younglogic.com/2012/03/shared-nothing-diskless-boot/
http://saiweb.co.uk/openstack/rhel-6-openstack-via-epel-nova-and-glance-on-kvm/