The Newton release of Heat adds support for a yaql intrinsic function, which allows you to evaluate yaql expressions in your Heat templates. Unfortunately, the existing yaql documentation is somewhat limited, and does not offer examples of many of yaql's more advanced features.

I am working on a Fluentd composable …

Let's say that you have set up an environment using tripleo-quickstart and you would like to add another virtual machine to the mix that has both "external" connectivity ("external" in quotes because I am using it in the same way as the quickstart does w/r/t the undercloud) and …

This is a small collection of simple git tips and tricks I use to make my life easier.

Quickly amend an existing commit with new files

I have this alias in place that will amend the current commit while automatically re-using the existing commit message:

alias.fix=commit --amend -C …

In this article I would like to introduce tripleo-quickstart, a tool that will automatically provision a virtual environment and then use TripleO to deploy an HA OpenStack on top of it.

Introducing Tripleo-Quickstart

The goal of the Tripleo-Quickstart project is to replace the instack-virt-setup tool for quickly setting up virtual …

In my last article article I introduced Gruf, a command line tool for interacting with Gerrit. Since then, Gruf has gained a few important new features.

Caching

Gruf will now by default cache results for five minutes. This avoids repeatedly querying the server for the same information when you're just …