RDO Bobcat Released The RDO community is pleased to announce the general availability of the RDO build for OpenStack 2023.2 Bobcat  for RPM-based distributions, CentOS Stream and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. RDO is suitable for building private, public, and hybrid clouds. Bobcat is the 28th release from the OpenStack project, which is the work of more than 1,000 contributors from around the world.   The release is already available for CentOS Stream 9 on the CentOS mirror network in: http://mirror.stream.centos.org/SIGs/9-stream/cloud/x86_64/openstack-bobcat/ The RDO community p ..read more

RDO Zed Released The RDO community is pleased to announce the general availability of the RDO build for OpenStack Zed for RPM-based distributions, CentOS Stream and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. RDO is suitable for building private, public, and hybrid clouds. Zed is the 26th release from the OpenStack project, which is the work of more than 1,000 contributors from around the world. As with the Upstream release, this release of RDO is dedicated to Ilya Etingof who was an upstream and RDO contributor. The release is already available for CentOS Stream 9 on the CentOS mirror network in: http://mirror ..read more

The RDO community is pleased to announce the general availability of the RDO build for OpenStack Yoga for RPM-based distributions, CentOS Stream and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. RDO is suitable for building private, public, and hybrid clouds. Yoga is the 25th release from the OpenStack project, which is the work of more than 1,000 contributors from around the world. The release is already available on the CentOS mirror network: For CentOS Stream 8 http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8-stream/cloud/x86_64/openstack-yoga For CentOS Stream 9 http://mirror.stream.centos.org/SIGs/9-stream/cloud/x86_64/op ..read more

RDO Xena Released The RDO community is pleased to announce the general availability of the RDO build for OpenStack Xena for RPM-based distributions, CentOS Stream and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. RDO is suitable for building private, public, and hybrid clouds. Xena is the 24th release from the OpenStack project, which is the work of more than 1,000 contributors from around the world.   The release is already available on the CentOS mirror network at http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8-stream/cloud/x86_64/openstack-xena/. The RDO community project curates, packages, builds, tests and ma ..read more

RDO Wallaby Released The RDO community is pleased to announce the general availability of the RDO build for OpenStack Wallaby for RPM-based distributions, CentOS Stream and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. RDO is suitable for building private, public, and hybrid clouds. Wallaby is the 23rd release from the OpenStack project, which is the work of more than 1,000 contributors from around the world. The release is already available on the CentOS mirror network at http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8-stream/cloud/x86_64/openstack-wallaby/. The RDO community project curates, packages, builds, tests and ..read more

What changed with CentOS? CentOS announced recently that they will focus on CentOS Stream and CentOS Linux 8 will be EOL at the end of 2021. While CentOS Linux 8 (C8) is a pure rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS Stream 8 (C8S) tracks just ahead of the current RHEL release. This means that we will have a continuous flow of new packages available before they are included in the next RHEL minor release. What’s the current situation in RDO? RDO has been using the latest CentOS Linux 8 to build both the OpenStack packages and the required dependencies since the Train release for bot ..read more

RDO Victoria Released The RDO community is pleased to announce the general availability of the RDO build for OpenStack Victoria for RPM-based distributions, CentOS Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. RDO is suitable for building private, public, and hybrid clouds. Victoria is the 22nd release from the OpenStack project, which is the work of more than 1,000 contributors from around the world. The release is already available on the CentOS mirror network at http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8/cloud/x86_64/openstack-victoria/. The RDO community project curates, packages, builds, tests and mainta ..read more

The RDO community is pleased to announce the general availability of the RDO build for OpenStack Ussuri for RPM-based distributions, CentOS Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. RDO is suitable for building private, public, and hybrid clouds. Ussuri is the 21st release from the OpenStack project, which is the work of more than 1,000 contributors from around the world. The release is already available on the CentOS mirror network at http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8/cloud/x86_64/openstack-ussuri/. The RDO community project curates, packages, builds, tests and maintains a complete OpenStack compon ..read more

Photo by Florian Krumm on Unsplash Three incredible articles by Lars Kellogg-Stedman aka oddbit – mostly about adjustments and such made due to COVID-19. I hope you’re keeping safe at home, RDO Stackers! Wash your hands and enjoy these three fascinating articles about keyboards, arduino and machines that go ping… Some thoughts on Mechanical Keyboards by oddbit Since we’re all stuck in the house and working from home these days, I’ve had to make some changes to my home office. One change in particular was requested by my wife, who now shares our rather small home office space with me: after ..read more

While a lot of RDO contributors are remote, there are many more who are not and now find themselves in lock down or working from home due to the coronavirus. A few members of the RDO community requested tips, tricks, and best practices for working on and managing a distributed team. Connectivity I mean, obviously, there needs to be enough bandwidth, which might normally be just fine, but if you have a partner and kids also using the internet, video calls might become impossible. Communicate with the family to work out a schedule or join the call without video so you can still participate. Mana ..read more