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Grupo Santander escoge a Red Hat para ofrecer servicios modernos en la nube

Red Hat anunció que Produban, la división de servicios informáticos del Grupo Santander, ha elegido a la compañía como socio tecnológico para crear una infraestructura de nube con Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform sobre Red Hat OpenStack Platform.

La presencia internacional de Produban está compuesta por 10 centros de datos en cuatro países que dan soporte a todos los negocios del Grupo…

Author: Avishay Traeger, Phd. Software Engineer at Stratoscale

At the end of last year, I wrote an article about the promising stability of the upcoming Kilo release. Last month, Kilo released a big advancement in terms of stability: continuous integration (CI) for Cinder to test storage drivers; Nova, whose CI runs tests on its internally supported hypervisors; and Neutron, whose CI runs internal tests on Neutron plugins. These are the major projects that have plugins and require automated tests as well as functionality tests to integrate third party drivers.

Before the third party CI effort got under way, each individual hardware vendor was responsible for testing drivers beforehand. Some vendors were more skilled at this than others, but still, launching the CI process revealed many bugs within the system, reflecting vendor errors that should have been resolved ahead of time.

The stabilization efforts for Cinder backend drivers began with the Juno release and required vendors to manually submit test results for their Cinder drivers. In the “old way”, OpenStack deployers would have to cross their fingers and hope that the drivers were reliable, well written and pre-tested, at which point they would try to deploy. If something didn’t work, they’d find the bug, send it to the vendor to be fixed, and eventually receive a patch. Obviously, this process affected the reliability of OpenStack as a whole.

Furthermore, when an OpenStack vendor visits a customer’s site to deploy OpenStack, the customer may very well use hardware that is unfamiliar to the deployer. The result? Lots more debugging. The Kilo release represents the first instance in which consistency is ensured across more than 100 third party driver options.

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While enterprises like Walmart and Paypal took the strategic route and built massive OpenStack clouds, it’s clear that OpenStack is the defacto standard of private clouds. However with the many new and important Kilo features, aspects such as high availability and scalability are not quite smoothed out yet.

Just wanted to give you the heads up that we have an excellent event scheduled for tomorrow night with a special guest from abroad presenting, and other special guests joining the event, so it will be a really good one from a content and networking perspective.

Here's the info:

DevOps for OpenStack with Vassil Avramov, CTO Risk Focus

@GigaSpaces Offices, 4 Maskit Street, 5th Floor | 6:30 PM

This session will take a deep dive on real life use case of migrating a major bank to OpenStack using best of breed open source tooling - achieving robust CI/CD for the entire app lifecycle.

We will have noshables, pizzas, and beer - so come on out!

Juno Public Training

I also wanted to update you that the registration  for the OpenStack Juno Public Training course will be closing soon.  Training will be taking place between January 20-22 at HP Raanana.

If you'd like to get started with OpenStack - this is the course for you.

Register here, and learn more.

OpenStack, the fastest growing infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform in the open source community, has recently added a database-as-a-service (DBaaS) named Trove, scheduled for its first production OpenStack release in April. Trove's purpose is to provide scalable and reliable cloud DBaaS provisioning functionality for both relational and non-relational database engines.

Track 2 | 12:20 PM

If you're into networking and specifically how to automate and simplify it all - you won't want to miss this session that is a deep dive on OpenStack Neutron and network automation, NFV and more.

Session Abstract:

Recent advancements in OpenStack capabilities have made the cloud better tuned to enterprise needs by introducing much more flexible network designs and networking services, with the tradeoff of making the cloud more complex. In this session we will describe how we can leverage the power of the new networking advancement without exposing the complexity to the end user. We will present alternative approaches and their tradeoffs for automating the deployment of a typical n-tier enterprise application that include multi-tenant environment, separate network for admin and applications, cross region network, attach a floating IP, setup security groups etc. all through a combination of Heat, TOSCA, Chef, Puppet, and more.

Track 1 | 12:20 PM

OpenStack Marconi provides painless distributed messaging for modern apps. Join us as we unveil Marconi's plans for the future, including details about our new Notifications service. We'll reveal the key enhancements made for Icehouse, describe upcoming metrics, present improvements for horizontal sharding, and cover what's new in the 1.1 version of Marconi's API. Come and see the future of messaging for cloud apps!

Track 1 | 12:50 PM