Tag Archives: nova

July 12, 2013
17:19
by: Dan

A brief overview of Nova’s new object model (Part 1)

As discussed at the Havana summit, I have been working with Chris Behrens (and others) on the unified-object-model blueprint for Nova. The core bits of it made their way into the tree a while ago and work is underway to … Continue reading →

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July 10, 2013
23:14
by: Dan

A tool for watching Zuul and Jenkins

In my work on OpenStack Nova, I often have multiple patches in flight somewhere on the CI system. When patches are first submitted (or resubmitted) they go into Zuul’s “check” queue for a first pass of the tests. After a … Continue reading →

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April 22, 2013
21:45
by: Dan

Dan’s Partial Summary of the Nova Track

Last week, OpenStack developers met in Portland, OR for the Havana Design Summit. Being mostly focused on Nova development, I spent almost all of my time in that track. Below are some observations not yet covered by other folks. Baremetal … Continue reading →

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February 7, 2013
22:32
by: Dan

All your DB are belong to conductor

Well, it’s done. Hopefully. Over the last year, Nova has had a goal of removing direct database access from nova-compute. This has a lot of advantages, especially around security and rolling upgrade abilities, but also brings some complexity and change. Much … Continue reading →

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