As OpenStack continues to grow and thrive around the world the OpenStack Foundation continues to bring OpenStack events to all corners of the globe. From community run meetups to more high-profile events like the larger Summits there is probably an OpenStack event going on somewhere near you.
One of the increasingly popular events is the OpenStack Days series. OpenStack Days are regionally focussed events sponsored by local user groups and businesses in the OpenStack universe. The are intended to be formal events with a detailed structure, keynotes and sponsorship.
This year’s OpenStack Days – Australia was held June 1st in Melbourne, Australia and Red Hat was proud to be a sponsor with speakers in multiple tracks!

Keynotes
Despite being a chilly Melbourne winter’s day there was an excellent turnout. Keynotes featured OpenStack Foundation Executive Director Jonathan Bryce presenting a recap of the recent Boston Summit and overall state of OpenStack. He was joined by Heidi Joy Tretheway, Senior Marketing Manager for the OpenStack Foundation, who presented OpenStack User Survey results (you can even mine the data for yourself). Local community leaders also presented, sharing their excitement for the upcoming Sydney Summit, introducing a pre-summit Hackathon and sharing ideas to help get OpenStack into college curriculum.

Just in: The latest OpenStack User Survey has just begun! Get your OpenStack Login ready and contribute today!

Are you running an #OpenStack cloud? Share your feedback, technology choices in the 10th OpenStack User Survey: https://t.co/Ysizr1yTNb
— OpenStack (@OpenStack) June 26, 2017

Red Hatters Down Under
Red Hatters in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) are a busy bunch, but we were lucky enough to have had two exceptional Red Hat delivered presentations on the day.
Andrew Hatfield, Practice Lead – Cloud Storage and Big Data

The first, from Practice Lead Andrew Hatfield, kicked off the day’s Technical Track to an overflowing room. Andrew’s session, entitled “Hyperconverged Cloud – not just a toy anymore” introduced the technical audience to the idea of OpenStack infrastructure being co-located with Ceph storage on the same nodes. He discussed how combining services, such as Ceph OSD’s onto Nova computes, is fully ready for production workloads in Red Hat OpenStack Platform Version 11. Andrew pointed out how hyperconvergence, when matched properly to workload, can result in both intelligent resource utilisation and cost savings. For industries such as Telco this is an important step forward for both NFV deployments and Edge computing, where a small footprint and highly tuned workloads are required.
Peter Jung, Business Development Executive | Cloud Transformation

In our second session of the day, Red Hat Business Development Executive Peter Jung presented “OpenStack and Red Hat: How we learned to adapt with our customers in a maturing market.” Peter discussed how Red Hat’s OpenStack journey has evolved over the last few years. With the release of Red Hat OpenStack Platform 7 a few short years ago and its introduction of the deployment lifecycle tool, Red Hat OpenStack Platform director, Red Hat has worked hard to solve real-world user issues around deployment and lifecycle management. Peter’s session covered a range of topics and customer examples, further demonstrating how Red Hat continues to evolve with the maturing OpenStack market.
Community led!
Other sessions on the day covered a wide range of topics across the three tracks providing something for everyone. From an amazing talk in the “Innovation Track” by David Perry of The University of Melbourne around running containers on HPC (with live demo!) to a cheeky “Technical Track” talk by Alexander Tsirel of Hivetec on creating a billing system running on OpenStack, the range, and depth, of the content was second to none. ANZ and Stackers really are a dynamic and exciting bunch! The day ended with an interesting panel covering topics ranging from the complexities of upgrading to the importance of diversity.
Keep an eye on OpenStack Australia’s video channel for session videos! And check out previous event videos from Canberra and Sydney for more OpenStack Down Under!
Of course, I’d be remiss if I were to not mention one of the most talked about non-OpenStack items of the day: The Donut Wall. Just have to see it to believe it, and here it is:

The donut wall is up!! Come chat to the @OpenStack foundation and get your sugar fix #OpenStackAU pic.twitter.com/a8M8RSuYpn
— OpenStack Australia (@OpenStackAU) June 1, 2017

A big success Down Under
The day was a resounding success and the principal organisers, Aptira and the OpenStack Foundation, continue to do an exceptional job to keep the OpenStack presence strong in the ANZ region. We at Red Hat are proud and excited to continue to work with the businesses and community that make OpenStack in Australia and New Zealand amazing and are extremely excited to be the host region for the next OpenStack Summit, being held in Sydney November 6-8, 2017. Can’t wait to see you there!

Want to find out how Red Hat can help you plan, implement and run your OpenStack environment? Join Red Hat Architects Dave Costakos and Julio Villarreal Pelegrino in “Don’t fail at scale: How to plan, build, and operate a successful OpenStack cloud” today.
Use OpenStack every day? Want to know more about how the experts run their clouds? Check out the Operationalising OpenStack series for real-world tips, tricks and stories from OpenStack experts just like you!
Quelle: RedHat Stack

27. Juni 2017

da Agency

Uber Exec Accused Of Ignoring Complaints: "I Take All Concerns Raised To Me Extremely Seriously"

Justin Sullivan / Getty Images

Uber's chief technology officer, whom an ex-employee publicly accused of ignoring her complaints, told his team on Sunday night in an email obtained by BuzzFeed News, “I take all concerns raised to me extremely seriously.”

After ex-Uber engineer Susan Fowler published a blog post in February alleging a culture of systemic sexual harassment and discrimination at Uber, the company launched two internal investigations. One, led by former attorney general Eric Holder, investigated the company's workplace environment, and the other was focused on Fowler's claims and led by the law firm Perkins Coie. Though Fowler does not name Uber CTO Thuan Pham directly in her blog, she wrote that she reported her concerns to Uber's CTO but that he didn't act on her complaints.

“Less than a week after this absurd meeting, my manager scheduled a 1:1 with me, and told me we needed to have a difficult conversation. He told me I was on very thin ice for reporting his manager to HR. California is an at-will employment state, he said, which means we can fire you if you ever do this again. I told him that was illegal, and he replied that he had been a manager for a long time, he knew what was illegal, and threatening to fire me for reporting things to HR was not illegal. I reported his threat immediately after the meeting to both HR and to the CTO: they both admitted that this was illegal, but none of them did anything. (I was told much later that they didn't do anything because the manager who threatened me “was a high performer”).” — Susan Fowler

Some Uber employees have wondered how Pham was able to emerge unscathed after the Holder investigation, despite Fowler pinpointing him in her blog post. The Information reported on Friday that the investigation into Fowler's claims “turned up evidence that helped Mr. Pham keep his job.” Fowler declined to comment to BuzzFeed News.

As part of the fallout from the internal investigations, Uber's board said it voted unanimously to adopt all recommendations from Holder's report. Uber said earlier this month that it had fired 20 people for issues ranging from discrimination and harassment to bullying. The company said it intends to rewrite its cultural values and implement dozens of changes recommended by Holder's law firm as it seeks to improve its culture. Amidst the fallout from the investigations, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick resigned last week; the ride-hail giant's board is now searching for a new top executive.

Uber declined to comment on Pham's email.

Here's the email Pham sent to engineering staff:

Subject: Moving forward together

“Hi everyone,

The last few months have been difficult for everyone at Uber. We've all faced questions from friends and family about our values, our team, and our work environment.

While we need to be respectful about discussing matters that affect people's privacy and not impact the confidentiality of our HR complaint process, I want to explain how I personally have been involved in the investigations.

Perkins Coie spent nearly four months deeply investigating claims. Like some of you, I was interviewed and provided many documents and emails to Perkins. I firmly believe and applaud Bobbie Wilson, the partner at Perkins Coie, when she stood in front of the entire company declaring that the investigation simply followed all the facts, and spared no one from the accountability of wrongdoing.

I hope you are reassured by what Ms. Wilson said on stage, and believe in the integrity of the investigation and its outcome.

I hope that you are also reassured when Liane followed by saying that Uber acted on all of Perkins' recommendations, quickly and definitively.

I take all concerns raised to me extremely seriously, no matter someone's tenure, level or performance. Without fail–and as we should all do–I have referred and will continue to refer all allegations of wrongdoing to the HR team for investigation, and to take disciplinary actions as appropriate.

If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know and I'll be happy to meet and talk about it. My door is always open.

As we move forward, we will not forget the experiences of the last difficult months. I pledge my continuing and uncompromising commitment to you individually and to us as a team. My experience teaches me that when we build software, it lasts but only for a few years. When we build an individual's talents we create something that can last a lifetime and can change the world. Let's do this together.

Thank you.

/Thuan“

Quelle: <a href="Uber Exec Accused Of Ignoring Complaints: "I Take All Concerns Raised To Me Extremely Seriously"“>BuzzFeed

27. Juni 2017

da Agency

Versioning APIs at Google

By Dan Ciruli, Product Manager

Versioning APIs is difficult, and everyone in the API space has opinions about how to do it properly. It’s also almost impossible to avoid. As teams build new software, occasionally they need to get rid of a feature (or provide that feature in a different way). Versioning gives your API users a reliable way to understand semantic changes in the API. While some companies will go to great lengths to never change a version, we don’t have that luxury: with the number of APIs we operate, the number of teams developing them here and the number of developers relying on them, we version APIs so developers know what to expect from them.

Versioning APIs should be done according to a consistent and comprehensive policy. At Google, we follow the general principles of semantic versioning for our APIs. The principles behind semantic versioning are simple: each release gets a number, X and a number Y. X indicates a major version, and Y indicates a minor version. A new major version indicates a backward-incompatible change while a new minor version indicates a backward-compatible change.

Our major versions are reflected in the path of our APIs, immediately following the domain. Why? Well, it means that any API URL that you call will never rename or drop any of the fields you rely on. If you’re doing a GET on coolcloudapi.googleapis.com/v1/coolthings/12301221312132, you can rely on the fact that the JSON returned will never have fields renamed or removed.

There are pros and cons to this approach, of course, and many smart people have heated debates over the “right” way to version. Some people prefer encoding a version request in a header, others “keep track” of the version that any individual API consumer is used to getting. We’ve seen and heard them all, and collectively we’ve decided that, for our broad purposes, encoding the major version in the URL makes the most sense most of the time.

Note that the minor version is not encoded in the URL. That means that if we enhance the Cool Cloud API by adding a new field, you may one day be surprised when a call to coolcloudapi.googleapis.com/v1/coolthings/12301221312132 starts returning some additional data. But we’ll never “break” your app by removing fields.

When we release a new major version, we generally write a single backend that can handle both versions. All requests (regardless of version) are sent to the backend, and it uses the version in the path to decide which surface to return.

For customers using Cloud Endpoints, our API gateway, we’re starting to release the features that will enable you to follow these same versioning practices.

First, our proxy can now serve multiple versions of your API and reports the API version. This will let you see how much traffic different versions of your API receive. In practice, this means that you can tell how much of your traffic has migrated to a new version.

Second, it can give you a strategy for deprecating and turning down an API — by finding out who’s still using the old version. But that’s a topic for another blog post for another day.

Versioning is the thorn on the rose of making better APIs. We believe in the approach we’ve adopted internally, and are happy to share the best practices we’ve developed with the community. To get started with Cloud Endpoints, check out our 10-minute-quickstart or in-depth tutorials, or reach out to us on our Google Group at google-cloud-endpoints@googlegroups.com — we’d love to hear from you!
Quelle: Google Cloud Platform

27. Juni 2017

da Agency

Moby Summit June 2017 Recap

On June 19 2017, 90 members of the Moby community gathered at Docker headquarter in San Francisco for the second Moby Summit. This was an opportunity for the community to discuss the progress and future of the Moby project, two months after it was announced.
We started the day with an introduction by Solomon Hykes, and a look at the website redesign: the [Moby project website](http://mobyproject.org/) now has a [blog](http://mobyproject.org/blog/), an event calendar, a list of projects, and a [community page](http://mobyproject.org/community/) with links to various community resources. The [website code is open source](https://github.com/moby/mobywebsite), issues and PRs to make it better are welcome.
Then each team gave an update on their progress: Linuxkit, containerd, InfraKit, SwarmKit and LibNetwork, as well as the three new [Moby Special Interest Groups](http://mobyproject.org/projects/), Linuxkit Security, Security Scanning & Notary and Orchestration Security. All these talks have been recorded and you can find the videos and slides below.
In the afternoon, we split into 5 Birds Of Feathers (BOF) sessions: runc/containerd, LinuxKit, InfraKit, Security, and Security Scanning. You can find links to the BOF Notes at the end of this post.
We ended the day with a recap of the BOF sessions, and some beer.
Moby Summit Introduction

LinuxKit Update
Slides: LinuxKit update

containerd Update

InfraKit Update

Slides: Infrakit update
Libnetwork update
Slides: Libnetwork update

SwarmKit update
Swarm Proxy is a program for managing Docker Swarm services behind a reverse proxy. It uses the Docker events stream to monitor for services being created and removed, and then uses Swarm Configs to update a reverse proxy service to correctly route traffic to those services. It is stateless. https://github.com/dperny/swarm-proxy

Security Update

Finally, the Docker security team gave the update on the following topics:

LinuxKit security update
Security scanning and Notary update
Orchestration security update

Slides: LinuxKit Security and container container scanning with Notary
Slides: Orchestration security
BOF Summary Notes
runC / containerd

https://github.com/containerd/containerd/blob/master/reports/2017-06-23.md

LinuxKit

https://github.com/linuxkit/linuxkit/blob/master/reports/2017-06-19-summit.md

Security Scanning & Notary

https://forums.mobyproject.org/t/2017-06-19-meeing-notes/79

Orchestration Security

https://forums.mobyproject.org/t/2017-06-19-orchestration-security-sig-meeting/90

Check out the videos & slides from the last @moby Summit #containerd #linuxkit #infrakit Click To Tweet

The post Moby Summit June 2017 Recap appeared first on Docker Blog.
Quelle: https://blog.docker.com/feed/

27. Juni 2017

da Agency

Can Uber Convince Silicon Valley's Best To Be Its CEO?

Travis Kalanick

Getty Images

As Uber looks for a new leader, the presence of former CEO Travis Kalanick on its board could prove to be one of its biggest challenges.

The ride-hail giant’s board began searching for a new chief executive after Kalanick resigned last week. Candidates for the top post are likely to ask Uber for a fuller version of former attorney general Eric Holder’s internal investigation into the company’s culture and full transparency around its litany of legal battles, including a federal investigation into a software tool that was used to evade authorities in places where the company's service was restricted, the handling of a rape victim in India’s medical records, and a trade-secrets lawsuit with a major self-driving car rival. And the board will also have to explain how much latitude a new CEO would get, given that Kalanick will remain on the board, and is part of the search committee.

“Great candidates will be attracted to this position, even if there are some challenges. The biggest would be what role Travis is going to play going forward,” said David Finke, co-leader of the global technology practice at the executive search firm Russell Reynolds Associates. “Having a visionary and hard-charging founder on the board is always hard, but having one that was just ousted from the CEO role can make for a very difficult situation.”

“Really what you're trying to figure out is how helpful or disruptive is this former founder/CEO going to be.”

“It's really important to see, to what degree or not, would you have alignment with Travis's view of where the company is going, strategy elements, highest priorities around where the company is spending its time, energy and money,” one prominent startup CEO told BuzzFeed. “Really what you're trying to figure out is how helpful or disruptive is this former founder/CEO going to be in my efforts to get the company to a better place.”

Some employees are already campaigning for Kalanick’s return. Finke said that outcry could make a CEO candidate “question whether it’s possible to end the drama and galvanize and focus the organization on the way forward.”

“If Travis remains involved in the company on a regular basis and maintains a controlling share of the company and an active board seat, it’s unlikely they’re going to be able to bring in the CEO who can make the kind of changes one would want to see here,” said Mercedes Chatfield-Taylor, a managing partner at the executive search firm Caldwell Partners.

While Uber searches for a new chief executive, the company is being run by a 14-person committee of top executives. Before Kalanick resigned, several investors raised concerns as to whether Uber could move past its scandals with Kalanick at the helm of the company, according to Bloomberg.

The ride-hail giant’s board described Kalanick’s decision to step away as “taking the time to heal from his personal tragedy while giving the company room to fully embrace this new chapter in Uber's history.” It’s unclear what that new chapter will look like without Kalanick, who shaped the company into a global juggernaut with a nearly $70 billion valuation, and the departures of more than a dozen other key executives earlier this year.

The company’s next CEO — and other top leaders who arrive to fill Uber’s various leadership holes — will face many challenges. For one, Uber has spent the majority of 2017 accruing an endless stream of bad headlines. On top of the internal investigation into allegations of systemic sexism at Uber, its self-driving program is facing a bitter trade secrets lawsuit from Waymo, the autonomous vehicle unit of Google’s parent company Alphabet.

“You'd certainly want to see Eric Holder's full report.”

“There’s risk here,” said Micah Alpern, a principal at the management consulting firm AT Kearney, citing the Waymo lawsuit and Uber’s cultural challenges. “[As a CEO candidate], I'd want to know where we stand on this lawsuit. Are these things that we were in the wrong about that we’re going to have to settle on? Is the organization really willing to change? Do I have the full support of the board to change how the organization works going forward?”

Crucial to determining what sort of changes need to be made to Uber would be a review of all the material gathered by former attorney general Eric Holder during his inquiry into the company’s workplace culture. Uber’s board received a more detailed version of the report than what was made public, with Bloomberg reporting that some members worried that “Kalanick’s role in some of those incidents would continue to inflict damage on Uber.”

“You'd certainly want to see Eric Holder's full report,” the startup CEO told BuzzFeed.

While Rachel Holt, the head of Uber’s US and Canada business (and one of the executives running the company during this leadership void) said in a damage-control press call in March that Uber has “grown faster in the first 10 weeks of 2017 than the first 10 weeks of 2016,” third-party data show that Uber has lost some business to Lyft this year. According to the consumer spending analytics company TXN, about 88% of market spending on the ride-hail services went to Uber in the week of Jan. 4, 2017, compared to Lyft’s 13%. By the week of June 12, Uber’s share dropped to 78%, and Lyft’s increased to 22%. The company’s next CEO will be responsible for restoring the company’s public image.

Question is, who's willing to take on such a burden? Speculative lists of possible CEO contenders currently include the likes of former eBay CEO John Donahoe, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, former Twitter COO Adam Bain, Thomas Staggs — the former chief operating officer of Disney — and David Cush, former CEO of Virgin America.

“Any finalist candidate worth one’s salt will sign an NDA and expect full and transparent disclosure of all issues — good, bad and ugly,” said Finke, the Russell Reynolds Associates headhunter. “No one should be expected to accept a role like this without having a good look at all the skeletons in the closet.”

William Alden contributed reporting for this story.

Quelle: <a href="Can Uber Convince Silicon Valley's Best To Be Its CEO?“>BuzzFeed

Here's the email Pham sent to engineering staff:

If you type “Harry Potter” on Facebook today, you're in for a surprise.

It works if you write “Harry Potter” on your timeline, or if you write it in a comment, and it's like magic — wand, lighting bolts, the whole deal.

The special effects also work when you post the names of Hogwarts houses on Facebook.

The Harry Potter series turns 20 this month, which appears to be why Facebook is rolling out the fun.

Even Mark Zuckerberg got in on the celebration.

Zucky Potter is a pretty good nickname, amirite?

Happy 20th birthday, Harry Potter. One year until we can hang out in a bar together.