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I’ve been intentionally laying low for the past several months – well, more than several really. Since January.

I decided to leave Nebula, where I was working with some of the most fantastic co-workers you could ever wish for, and stepped out on my own. With the OpenStack Atlanta 2014 summit having just wrapped up, I thought it was probably worth peeking out from hiding a bit.

I’m not actively working on OpenStack right now. I’ve gone back a bit to using cloud and cloud services, rather than just building them. EC2, Azure, GCE, Nebula’s private cloud offering, Rackspace’s cloud, HP’s, etc. All the layers I want to use, and getting back to build on top of those services to provide some really interesting value.

I enjoyed the coverage from this last summit. The project is continuing to truck forward at incredibly speed – not without it’s hiccups of course – but making good progress.

I found myself very frustrated with the structure and progress of the foundation 18 months ago. I’m very glad that something is starting to gel in terms of DefCore and a real effort to standardize the options enough to ensure interoperability. From my earliest involvement with the project, that was the end goal in my head – the “big win” that was possible.

When I started with OpenStack I was with Disney. This morning I was reading a quote from Chris Launey about Disney’s use of OpenStack. It’s great to see that continuing to gel and come into fruition. It’s only with really solid interoperability that we’ll see the goal that I was running with at Disney, and Chris re-iterated in Atul’s review of the summit.

Ryan Lane’s presentation of the User Committee’s OpenStack User Survey results are really bearing the fruit that the gang started capturing over a year ago. I think OpenStack has a natural culture internally to want to push and grow very fast. The whole “what’s core” argument for ages – and the basics aren’t solid, and I think there’s still plenty of work there. I personally want to see solid interoperability, so I can use any provider easily and effectively. API’s and libraries like Fog are making it somewhat possible, but there’s still a lot of “continuity” disconnects, and a lot less solid support for tooling to _use_ an OpenStack cloud than I’d like to see.

But hey, like I said – forward motion, continued traction, and continued involvement. It’s looking positive for the project.


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