[ovirt-users] oVirt Monthly Newsletter: October 2014

[Brian Proffitt]

October 2014 was a big month for oVirt. A new release, a new workshop, a new way of installing oVirt... there was nothing about October that didn't feel like success for the community and the software. As we start looking ahead to oVirt 3.6, here's a look back at one memorable month!

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In the Community
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oVirt is very happy to announce its participation in the GNOME Foundation's Outreach Program for Women: http://www.ovirt.org/Outreach_Program_for_Women Registration closed on Oct. 22, and have two excellent participants working with the oVirt community.

With all of the work being done on oVirt 3.5, our development team took the time to create some videos and deep-dive hangouts about 3.5 features: http://community.redhat.com/blog/2014/09/a-cinematic-peek-at-ovirt-3-5/

October 16 was the next big event for the oVirt community, the 2014 KVM Forum oVirt Workshop in Düsseldorf, Germany. Learn more at http://community.redhat.com/blog/2014/10/ovirt-workshop-2014/ and http://ow.ly/i/7gCmZ

Other October events for oVirt included:
 
* LinuxCon EU, Düsseldorf, Germany, Oct. 13-15
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-europe

* CloudOpen Europe, Düsseldorf, Germany, Oct. 13-15
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/cloudopen-europe

* KVM Forum, Düsseldorf, Germany, Oct. 14-16
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kvm-forum

* All Things Open, Raleigh, North Carolina, Oct. 22-23
http://allthingsopen.org/

* Open World Forum 2014, Paris, France, Oct. 30-31
http://www.openworldforum.paris/en/

Douglas Landsgraf reveals his take on Latinoware 2014 (http://dougsland.livejournal.com/123871.html)

In November, oVirt will be featured at more events:

* OpenAlt.cz, Brno, Czech Republic, Nov. 1-2
http://www.openalt.cz/

* LISA 14, Seattle, Washington, Nov. 9-14
https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa14

* DevOps at Red Hat #2, Nov. 18
http://www.geektime.co.il/events/devops-at-red-hat-2/

* DevOps Days, Tel Aviv, Nov. 23-24
http://devopsdays.org/events/2014-telaviv/

And for the future, there's a Call for Particpation for the IaaS DevRoom at FOSDEM'15 (http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-October/028644.html)!

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oVirt Software Milestones
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On October 19, the journey to our next release was complete, and oVirt 3.5 was released! http://community.redhat.com/blog/2014/10/ovirt-3-5-rolls-out/

Along with the release of oVirt 3.5, a new User Guide (http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_User_Guide) and Administrator Guide (http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_Administration_Guide) were released, ready to help people using oVirt faster!

Earlier in October, ovirt-3.5 ovirt-guest-agent Linux builds were also made available:
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.ovirt.user/22322

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Deep Dives and Technical Discussions
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oVirt and Docker are proving to be a great combination! Moran Goldboim rolls out a two-part blog on how you can install oVirt as a Docker container today! (http://community.redhat.com/blog/2014/10/ovirt-dockerized/, http://community.redhat.com/blog/2014/10/ovirt-dockerized-part-2/)

Jason Brooks continues his Up and Running series with a look on how to install and use oVirt 3.5 (http://community.redhat.com/blog/2014/10/up-and-running-with-ovirt-3-5/)!

You can also learn about what's new in oVirt 3.5 in Korean (https://ovirtkorea.wordpress.com/2014/10/26/whatsnew_in_ovirt35/).

Like oVirt? Want to tell your friends and colleagues? Use our slide presentation as a 
basis to share oVirt with the community: http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_Slide_Decks#Introduction_to_oVirt_Deck

The oVirt 3.5 Features and Deep Dives YouTube playlist has been expanded! http://ow.ly/DrBlt

Douglas Landsgraf wrote a nice write up abaout how Hosted Engine is going to work on oVirt Node http://dougsland.livejournal.com/124084.html

Discover moVirt: the mobile interface for oVirt (http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/movirt.pdf)

RaspberryPi + SPICE + oVirt = Red Hat Powered VDI. Learn more in this video (http://www.spice-space.org/vdi.html)!

Some answers to the question: HA Cluster Gluster or DRBD iSCSI for oVirt 3.5 (http://www.redgrid.net/uncategorized/ovirt-3-5-ha-cluster-gluster-or-drbd-iscsi-part1/).

How to get directory services easily connected to oVirt with Docker and FreeIPA:
http://www.projectatomic.io/blog/2014/10/containerized-directory-services-with-docker-and-freeipa/

Seven steps to VM management with oVirt (in German) (http://www.datacenter-insider.de/index.cfm?pid=13397&pk=464532&p=1).

Find out more about the Python API for oVirt and RHEV (in Italian) (http://www.extraordy.com/introduzione-alle-python-api-per-rhev/).

Check out this Russian review of oVirt 3.5: http://youtu.be/kUqdKF9eW7Y


-- 
Brian Proffitt

Community Liaison
oVirt
Open Source and Standards, Red Hat - http://community.redhat.com
Phone: +1 574 383 9BKP
IRC: bkp @ OFTC