Author Archives: Goirand Thomas

Wrote a Debian mirror setup puppet module in 3 hours

As I needed the functionality, I wrote this: https://salsa.debian.org/openstack-team/puppet/puppet-module-debian-archvsync The matching Debian package has been uploaded and is now in the NEW queue. Thanks a lot to Waldi for packaging ftpsync, which I’m using. Comments and contributions are welcome.

OpenStack-cluster-installer in Buster

I’ve been working on this for more than a year, and finally, I am acheiving my goal. I wrote a OpenStack cluster installer that is fully in Debian, and running in production for Infomaniak. Note: I originally wrote this blog post a few weeks ago, though it was pending validation from my company (to make […]

Official Debian testing OpenStack image news

A few things happened to the testing image, thanks to Steve McIntire, myself, and … some debconf18 foo! The buster/testing image wasn’t generated since last April, this is now fixed. Thanks to Steve for it. The datasource_list is now correct, in both the Stretch and Testing image (previously, cloustack was set too early in the […]

Using a dummy network interface

For a long time, I’ve been very much annoyed by network setups on virtual machines. Either you choose a bridge interface (which is very easy with something like Virtualbox), or you choose NAT. The issue with NAT is that you can’t easily get into your VM (for example, virtualbox doesn’t exposes the gateway to your […]

Privacy breaches when unlocking a Xiaomi’s Mi 5s plus

My little girl decided the old OnePlus One of my wife had to take a swim in the toilets. So we had to buy a new phone. Since I know how bad standard ROMs are, I looked-up in the LineageOS list of compatible OS, and found out that the Xiaomi’s Mi 5s plus was not […]

Testing OpenStack using tempest: all is packaged, try it yourself

tl;dr: this post explains how the new openstack-tempest-ci-live-booter package configures a machine to PXE boot a Debian Live system running on KVM in order to run functional testing of OpenStack. It may be of interest to you if you want to learn how to PXE boot a KVM virtual machine running Debian Live, even if […]

There’s cloud, and it can even be YOURS on YOUR computer

Each time I see the FSFE picture, just like on Daniel’s last post to planet.d.o, where it says: “There is NO CLOUD, just other people’s computers” it makes me so frustrated. There’s such a thing as private cloud, setup on your own set of servers. I’ve been working on delivering OpenStack to Debian for the […]

Released OpenStack Newton, Moving OpenStack packages to upstream Gerrit CI/CD

OpenStack Newton is released, and uploaded to Sid OpenStack Newton was released on the Thursday 6th of October. I was able to upload nearly all of it before the week-end, though there was a bit of hick-ups still, as I forgot to upload python-fixtures 3.0.0 to unstable, and only realized it thanks to some bug […]

Announcing validated Debian packages for Mitaka

Greetings! This is a (4 days delay) copy of the announce I made on the openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org on the 8th of April 2016. I am overjoyed, thrilled and delighted to announce the release of the Debian packages for Mitaka. All of the DefCore packages were validated successfully this morning through our package-only-based Tempest CI. Content of […]

Moby

Just a quick reply to Rhonda about Moby. You can’t introduce him without telling about Go, which is the title who made him famous, very early in the age of electronic music (November 1990, according to wikipedia). Many attempted to remix this song (and Moby himself), but nothing’s as good as the original version.