Open Source, Linux, OpenStack, Mechatronics, Blog(?)
Over the past few months I started to notice occasional issues when cloning repositories (particularly nova) from git.openstack.org. It would fail with something like git clone -vvv git://git.openstack.org/openstack/nova . fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly fatal: early EOF fatal: index-pack failed The problem would occur sporadically during our 3rd party CI runs causing them […]
Turns out I’m not very good at blogging very often. However I thought I would put what I’ve been working on for the last few days here out of interest. For a while the OpenStack Infrastructure team have wanted to move away from storing logs on disk to something more cloudy – namely, swift. I’ve […]
Why is this hipster voting on my code?! Soon you are going to see a new robot barista leaving comments on Nova code reviews. He is obsessed with espresso, that band you haven’t heard of yet, and easing the life of OpenStack operators. Doing a large OpenStack deployment has always been hard when it came […]
Zuul is the continuous integration utility used by OpenStack to gate patchsets against tests. It takes care of communicating with gerrit (the code review system) and the test workers – usually Jenkins. You can read more about how the systems tie together on the OpenStack Project Infrastructure page. The nice thing is that zuul doesn’t […]