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"Red Hat today announced a new cloud management certification for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform as part of the Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure Partner Network, the world’s largest commercial ecosystem for OpenStack. Red Hat will enable cloud management solutions from partners to interoperate with and manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform. The certification offers customers confidence that their OpenStack-based clouds and management solutions have been fully tested together and are supported jointly by Red Hat and the...

An open source project's website is the main gateway for potential users and contributors to learn about your project, and it assists existing community members to contribute to the project. But it has to do it right. Does your website clearly present your project, its goals and status, and assist your community members to efficiently communicate with each other? Is it attracting new contributors? This article, based on the oVirt community site development, shares areas to pursue for producing a...

Red Hat "today announced an expansion of the company’s strategic alliance with SAP AG to make it easier for customers to adopt and run the SAP® Data Management portfolio, including the SAP HANA® platform, SAP Adaptive Server® Enterprise (SAP ASE), SAP IQ software, and the SAP SQL Anywhere® suite on Red Hat’s open source solutions. The expanded collaboration is expected to enable real-time, in-memory innovation by providing an open, scalable, integrated and highly-available platform for solutions from SAP along with...

Background Why Docker has quite an amount of buzz around it today because it makes so many things easy that were difficult with virtual machines. Docker containers makes it easy for Developers, Systems Administrators, Architects, Consultants and others to quickly test a piece of software in a container ; much quicker than a virtual machine, and using less resources. The average command in Docker takes under a second to complete. [root@keith]# time docker run fedora cat /etc/redhat-release Fedora release 20...

WARNING: Shameless plug! If you do nothing else today, you should go to these two Red Hat Summit tracks. Not only are the guys speaking the smartest dudes in the room, closet super heroes and have all held world records for Olympic speed walking, they work in the same department as me and can give you a look into how Red Hat IT is using Red Hat products. Meeting the challenge with PaaS: OpenShift in the enterprise - 10:40 with...

With the individual tracks coming to close on Day One at DevNation conference, I wanted to share the key takeaways, funny comments, and facepalm moments I experienced. Agile architecture and design with Neal Ford One of the most compelling presentations of the day, Neal validated a lot of the decisions that I have been involved in over the past 5 months in a DevOps enablement team; specifically around the most memorable quote of the talk: "Defer design decisions until the...

Join the DevNation Hacknight at Moscone Center South in San Francisco. April 16 from 6 - 11ish p.m. (PT). Enjoy pizza and beer, write some code, have fun, and be entered to win some prizes. Registration is free and is open to registered DevNation attendees only. Reserve your spot now, space is limited. We encourage you to bring your app ideas - this is your chance to recruit a team to help write the app or advance the project you've...

I just can't wait for DevNation , can you? I mean, conferences that bring together such a great amount of great people talking about great projects are just great! I think we all know the two big topics of present: clouds and containerization. But the DevNation schedule shows that much more is going on. Personally, I can't wait to see "Eleven Ceylon Idioms" by Gavin King. I've kept my eye on Ceylon language from its beginning and I think it...

The DevNation agenda is now live ( www.devnation.org ) and registration is open! With over 250 submissions, 43 selected sessions, 12 birds-of-a-feather panels, full day training courses, a hackathon, and an evening event, we hope to make DevNation an amazing event targeting and featuring the Developer and DevOps communities. The conference has participation from Twitter, Netflix, Facebook, Hortonworks, ThoughtWorks, Docker, the Eclipse Foundation, the jQuery Foundation, the Java Community Process, Docker, countless others, and of course, Red Hat! April 13-17...

Since the announcement of RDO and Red Hat OpenStack at the Spring 2013 OpenStack Summit, these have arguably become two of the most popular ways to install OpenStack. Both use the puppet-openstack modules to install OpenStack, and are just a sampling of the OpenStack installers that are based on Puppet. While the modules were created here at Puppet Labs, earlier this year we released them to the community as a set of projects in Stackforge. The vibrant community of contributors...

We are excited to announce DevNation , an open source, polyglot conference for application developers and maintainers! This event is the unification of prior developer events (JUDCon, CamelOne, and Red Hat Developer Exchange) and will be co-located with Red Hat Summit, April 13-17, 2014, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California, USA. It is our hope that DevNation will mature into an annual event. Participants will find the familiar mix of technical sessions, labs, expert panels, hackerfests, and birds-of-a-feather...

It's another busy week for Langdon and me. First, and closer to home, we're sponsoring this week's Boston Python meet-up where the topic is "Helper Languages" and where the following will be covered: SQL, CSS+HTML, and Regexes. Find Langdon and say 'hello'. Second, I'm in Germany this week as part of Red Hat's sponsorship at EclipseCon Europe in Ludwigsburg, Germany (just north of Stuttgart). Please stop by our table and attend this session by Alexander Kurtakov of Red Hat, "...