So You Want to be an OpenStack Contributor
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The document is an overview of OpenStack, an open-source software platform for building public and private clouds, highlighting its community, governance, and project structure. It details the different areas of contribution such as coding, documentation, and marketing, and provides a step-by-step guide on how to get involved. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of collaboration and offers resources for newcomers to navigate OpenStack effectively.
So You Want to be an OpenStack Contributor
- 1. A N N E G E N T L E , O P E N S TA C K D O C U M E N TA T I O N L E A D , R A C K S PA C E S O Y O U W A N T T O B E A N O P E N S TA C K CONTRIBUTOR
- 2. W H AT I S O P E N S TA C K A N Y W AY ? • Open source software for building public and private clouds. • What matters to Rackspace? • What are we running? Public and Private Clouds • Frenemies and coopetition - it’s both a vendor consortium and a community made of individuals. • Unprecedented. Fast moving. FLICKR:LOOZRBOY
- 3. CLOUDS IN USE • Web sites, Software as a Service, eCommerce: PayPal, Mercadolibre, WebEx, Mediawiki • Adademic/Research/Government: Argonne Natl Lab, CERN, NeCTAR (Australia), Cybera (Canada), Cyberport (China) • IT: render farms, provision services, real- time customer engagement, scale testing • Media and Gaming • Telcos and Hosting
- 4. WHERE WOULD I BEGIN? • USING THE CLOUD • Coding OpenStack SDKs • Coding OpenStack itself • Engineering (deploy, operate) • Community • What do you like to do? • What do you already know? F L I C K R : PA U L V A L L E J O
- 5. OTHER IDEAS • Marketing • Testing • Triaging • Documenting • Stabilizing • Securing • Translating FLICKR:KKY
- 6. W H AT G L U E S T H E S E P R O J E C T S T O G E T H E R ? • Deep Dive into OpenStack Governance Bylaws Board Committees (Technical, User, Legal, DefCore, Election) • Incubation • Integration • Open development - Summit every six months
- 7. W H AT ' S < F I L L - I N - W E I R D - C O D E - N A M E - H E R E > ? • What are programs? Grouped sets of deliverables • Compute • Storage • Documentation • What are projects? Teams of people working on deliverables • Keystone • Nova • QA • Swift • Release Cycle Management • Glance • Infrastructure • Cinder
- 8. L O O K U P TA B L E H T T P : / / G I T. O P E N S TA C K . O R G / C G I T / O P E N S TA C K / G O V E R N A N C E / T R E E / R E F E R E N C E / P R O G R A M S . YA M L • Compute (Nova) • Dashboard (Horizon) • Object storage (Swift) • Block storage • Database (Trove) • Deployment (TripleO) • Dev Environment and Gate (DevStack) • Missing? Usability, Translation, Security, Training, SDKs
- 9. I N T H E Q U E U E ( S TA C K F O R G E ) • Data processing (hadoop) (Savanna) • Platform (Solum) • Queue service (Marconi) • Benchmarking (Rally) • Bare Metal (Ironic) • Testing (Tempest) • Designate (DNS) • Reservation (Climate) • Key/Secret Management • Task orchestration( Mistral) (Barbican, Kite) • Windows deployment (Murano)
- 10. W H AT I F I C A N ’ T D E C O D E O P E N S TA C K - TA L K ? • http://docs.openstack.org/glossary
- 11. ASK ME ANYTHING D O C U M E N TAT I O N P R O G R A M T E C H N I C A L L E A D ! TECHNICAL COMMITTEE MEMBER ! OUTREACH PROGRAM FOR WOMEN A D M I N I S T R AT O R ! R A C K E R / S TA C K E R S I N C E 2 0 1 0
- 12. Let’s Make OpenStack U M . H O W D O I D O T H AT ? H T T P S : / / E T H E R PA D . O P E N S TA C K . O R G / P / S O Y O U W A N T T O B E
- 13. JOIN IN (PROVE YOU ARE YOU) STEP STEP STEP STEP 1: 2: 3: 4: Launchpad account Upload SSH keys Join the Foundation Verify on review.openstack.org
- 14. GET YOUR GIT ON (GET FILES FOR WORK) STEP STEP STEP STEP STEP 1: 2: 3: 4: 5: Clone a repo Set up git-review Edit, test locally Submit a patch Get it reviewed ! !
- 15. REVIEW (BE EXTRA EYES) STEP 1: Write comments inline STEP 2: Click Review ! or if it’s your patch ! STEP STEP STEP STEP 1: 2: 3: 4: Get a copy of the patch locally (You can patch your patch) Run tests, make edits Push it back to review.openstack.org ! !
- 16. QUIZ BREAK: SO YOU THINK YOU’RE SMARTER THAN A 5TH GRADER F L I C K R : T H O M A S FA V R E - B U L L E