Blog

2025

• April 3
  A Closer Look at the Cinder CSI Driver and the Topology Feature
• April 3
  An Update on OpenAPI in Openstack

2024

• August 22
  Block Storage in OpenStack
• May 3
  Availability Zones in Openstack and Openshift (Part 2)
• May 1
  API routing in Openstack
• April 22
  Debugging Failed OpenShift-on-OpenStack Deployments

2023

• August 22
  Availability Zones in Openstack and Openshift (Part 1)
• July 7
  Listening to notifications in Openstack
• June 26
  Multipoint VXLAN Tunnels
• May 23
  Deploying MetalLB with BGP on Openstack (Part 2)
• May 22
  Deploying MetalLB with BGP on Openstack (Part 1)
• April 27
  Installing OSC With pipx
• March 22
  Playing with OpenStack Nova APIs from a Python Shell
• February 16
  Hello, Gophercloud
• February 3
  API Versioning in Openstack

2022

• November 13
  Zero-downtime Upgrades With Alembic and SQLAlchemy
• October 7
  Quotas in OpenStack
• October 7
  SQLAlchemy Relationships Without Foreign Keys (And How to Replace 'backref' With 'back_populates')
• July 29
  Closing the OpenStackClient (and OpenStackSDK) Gaps
• June 20
  Issues pairing Beats Studio Buds
• June 14
  Reproducing DevStack-based OSC Gate Jobs Locally
• May 18
  Resolving an annoying PyQt Warning in OpenStackClient
• May 9
  Handling the switch to the Cloud Controller Manager (CCM) with OpenShift Operators
• March 29
  What API microversion does OpenStackClient use?
• March 8
  Add Another Network to ZNC

2021

• November 18
  Use Pktgen-DPDK to send traffic between two Openstack VMs
• March 23
  Using the OpenStack SDK
• February 16
  UEFI Support in Libvirt

2020

• November 23
  Plain Text Email in Evolution 3.38
• October 19
  Comparing Nova Database Migrations
• June 3
  Understanding the 'admin_or_owner' rule in nova policies
• May 28
  Emulated Trusted Platform Module (vTPM) in OpenStack 🔐
• May 28
  Using AMI Images in OpenStack
• May 21
  Why You Can't Schedule to Host NUMA Nodes in Nova?
• February 12
  VCPUs, PCPUs and Placement

2019

• July 2
  Upgrading DD-WRT to OpenWRT on the TP-Link TL-WR1043ND
• April 19
  NUMA, CPU Pinning and 'vcpu_pin_set'
• February 14
  Direct vs Hostdev Interfaces in Nova
• February 10
  Poon Hill Trek
• February 6
  Updating Mellanox ConnectX-3 NIC Firmware

2018

• September 25
  Configuring SR-IOV for a Mellanox ConnectX-3 NIC
• May 15
  Automatically Set The Name of tmux Windows

2017

• December 8
  Evolution Calendar Issues
• December 6
  Building PDFs for OpenStack documentation
• October 31
  Deploying Real Time Openstack
• February 12
  Patchwork and CI in a Tree
• February 6
  Open Python Paths with vim
• January 31
  Creating a Windows 7 USB on Fedora 25

2016

• December 10
  Install Netbeans on Fedora 25
• December 6
  MTUs in Neutron
• December 6
  Using git-review
• July 15
  GNU Autotest
• July 13
  How Are Datacenters Physically Wired?
• July 13
  Loading Mailing List Archives with Mutt
• July 13
  Working with Jenkins + Chrome
• July 11
  Sane Outlook: Making Plain Text Better in Outlook
• July 9
  How I Work
• June 30
  Resizing Pinned Instances to Unpinned
• June 29
  CPU Pinning with Image Metadata
• June 26
  Configuring ZNC with HexChat
• June 25
  Hello, World!