Time for another summary I think, because announcing the review day seems to have caused a rush of new specs to be filed (which wasn’t really my intention, but hey). We did approve a fair few specs on the review day, so I think overall it was a success. Here’s an updated summary of the…
Soft deleting instances and the reclaim_instance_interval in Nova
I got asked the other day how the reclaim_instance_interval in Nova works, so I thought I’d write it up here in case its useful to other people. First off, there is a periodic task run the nova-compute process (or the computer manager as a developer would know it), which runs every reclaim_instance_interval seconds. It looks…
Specs for Kilo, an update
We’re now a few weeks away from the kilo-1 milestone, so I thought it was time to update my summary of the Nova specifications that have been proposed so far. So here we go… API Add more detailed network information to the metadata server: review 85673. Add separated policy rule for each v2.1 api: review…
The Human Division
I originally read this as a series of short stories released on the kindle, but the paperback collation of those has been out for a while and deserved a read. These stories are classic Scalzi, and read well. If you like the Old Man’s War universe you will like this book. The chapters of the…
Fast Food Nation
I don’t read a lot of non-fiction, but I decided to finally read this book having had it sit on the shelf for a few years. I’m glad I read it, but as someone who regularly eats in the US I am not sure if I should be glad or freaked out. The book is…
Specs for Kilo
Here’s an updated list of the specs currently proposed for Kilo. I wanted to produce this before I start travelling for the summit in the next couple of days because I think many of these will be required reading for the Nova track at the summit. API Add instance administrative lock status to the instance…
One week of Nova Kilo specifications
Its been one week of specifications for Nova in Kilo. What are we seeing proposed so far? Here’s a summary… API Add instance administrative lock status to the instance detail results: review 127139. Add more detailed network information to the metadata server: review 85673. Add separated policy rule for each v2.1 api: review 127863. Add…
Compute Kilo specs are open
From my email last week on the topic: I am pleased to announce that the specs process for nova in kilo is now open. There are some tweaks to the previous process, so please read this entire email before uploading your spec! Blueprints approved in Juno =========================== For specs approved in Juno, there is a…
Lock In
I know I like Scalzi stuff, but each series is so different that I like them all in different ways. I don’t think he’s written a murder mystery before, and this book was just as good as Old Man’s War, which is a pretty high bar. This book revolves around a murder being investigated by…
On layers
There’s been a lot of talk recently about what we should include in OpenStack and what is out of scope. This is interesting, in that many of us used to believe that we should do ”everything”. I think what’s changed is that we’re learning that solving all the problems in the world is hard, and…