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oVirt Community Newsletter December 2016
It's a new year with new opportunities for oVirt to show up its virtualization features! We're getting ready for DevConf.CZ in Brno next week, and FOSDEM in Brussels the week after that! We look forward to meeting European developers and sysadmins to share your experiences!
Here's what happened in December of 2016.
Software Releases
oVirt 4.0.6 Release is now available
In the Community
oVirt System Tests to the Rescue!—How to Run End-to-End oVirt Tests on Your Patch
CI Please Build—How to build your oVirt project on-demand
The Need for Speed—Coming Changes in oVirt's CI Standards
Еxtension of iptables Rules on oVirt 4.0 Hosts
Deep Dives and Technical Discussions
KVM/Linux Nested Virtualization Support For ARM
Virtual Machines in Kubernetes? How and what makes sense?
ANNOUNCE: New libvirt project Go XML parser model
Using OVN with KVM and Libvirt
New libvirt project Go language bindings
CI tools testing lab: Making it do useful work
CI tools testing lab: Integrating Jenkins and adding Zuul UI
CI tools testing lab: Adding Zuul Merger
CI tools testing lab: Setting up Zuul Server
Happy New Documentation!
The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of all-new principal documentation for the oVirt 4.0 branch.
There are many people out there who are content to use software without documentation, preferring to muddle through the software based on past experience with similar software or just the desire to put the software through its paces.
We all do this; I could not tell you the last time I looked at documentation for Firefox or Chrome, because I've been using browsers for over 20 years and seriously, what else is there to learn? Until I learn about a cool new feature from a friend or a web site.
In a software community project, one of the biggest things a community must do is to provide proper onboarding to the project's result. This means:
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Explaining what the software is
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Providing a clear path to getting the software
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Demonstrating how to use the software
All three of these onboarding requirements must be done right in order for onboarding to work successfully. Documenation, then, fulfills the third requirement: showing how software can be used. Not every one will need it, but for those users who do need it, it is very nice Continue reading
New oVirt Project Underway
As oVirt continues to grow, the many projects within the broader oVirt community are thriving as well. Today, the oVirt community is pleased to announce the addition of a new incubator subproject, Vagrant Provider, as well as the graduation of another subproject, moVirt, from incubator to full project status!
According to maintainer Marc Young, Vagrant Provider is a provider plugin for the Vagrant suite that enables command-line ease of virtual machine provisioning and lifecycle management.
More on Vagrant Provider
The Vagrant provider plugin will interface with the oVirt REST API (version 4 and higher) using the oVirt provided ruby SDK 'ovirt-engine-sdk-ruby'. This allows users to abstract the user interface and experience into a set of command-line abilities to create, provision, destroy and manage the complete lifecycle of virtual machines. It also allows the use of external configuration management and configuration files themselves to be committed into code.
As Young explains in his project proposal, the "trend in configuration management, operations, and devops has been to maintain as much of the development process as possible in terms of the virtual machines and hosts that they run on. With software like Terraform the tasks of creating the underlying infrastructure such as Continue reading
oVirt Newsletter—November 2016
oVirt's development is continuing on pace, as the calendar year draws to a close and we get ready for a new year of development, evangelism, and making virtual machine management a simple process for everyone.
Here's what happened in November of 2016.
Software Releases
oVirt 4.0.6 Third Release Candidate is now available
oVirt 4.1.0 First Beta Release is now available for testing
In the Community
Testing ovirt-engine changes without a real cluster
Request for oVirt Ansible modules testing feedback
Deep Dives and Technical Discussions
Important Open Source Cloud Products [German]
Red Hat IT runs OpenShift Container Platform on Red Hat Virtualization and Ansible
Keynote: Blurring the Lines: The Continuum Between Containers and VMs [Video]
Quick Guide: How to Plan Your Red Hat Virtualization 4.0 Deployment
Setting Community Values
The oVirt community is made up of a diverse mix of individuals using and contributing to all aspects of the project from all over the world, and we want to make sure that the community is a safe and friendly place for everyone.
This code of conduct applies equally to founders, mentors, and those seeking help and guidance. It applies to all spaces managed by the oVirt project, including IRC, mailing lists, GitHub, Gerrit, oVirt events, and any other forums created by the project team which the community uses for communication.
While we have contribution guidelines for specific tools, we expect all members of our community to follow these general guidelines and be accountable to the community. This isn’t an exhaustive list of things that you can’t do. Rather, take it in the spirit in which it’s intended—a guide to make it easier to enrich all of us and the technical communities in which we participate.
To that end, some members of the oVirt community have put together a new Community Code of Conduct to help guide everyone through what it means to be respectful and tolerant in a global community like the oVirt Project.
We're not looking for a Continue reading