We are excited to announce our collaboration with ALASCA for the upcoming ALASCA Summit 2026 (Nov 3–4) in Dresden, Germany. We are hosting a dedicated OpenInfra Track on Day 1 to bring our global community together to advance digital sovereignty in Europe!

Are you operating open infrastructure at scale? Developing new features? Combining #OpenStack, #Kubernetes, and #Linux in innovative ways? We want to hear from you!

The CFP closes 31 July! https://alasca.cloud/en/alasca-summit-2026/alasca-summit-2026-programme/alasca-summit-2026-call-for-contributions/

Dear kolla-ansible or OpenStack users,

not everything I encounter is worth a bug report, but other than the IRC channel (which sounded development-oriented, but which I do not find the link to anymore) is there no forum or chat or Matrix room where kolla-ansible users can help each other? Or is this done on the OpenStack forums or user groups or similar?

#OpenStack #kolla-ansible

OK, so I took the plunge and finally (after ~7 years of thinking about it and being distracted by other things) started playing around with OpenStack and kolla-ansible.

The quick start guide makes it sound simple and it really is. After some fiddling with the proper kolla-ansible versions I had a working installation (single node, but still impressive).

Encountered some bugs on the way (and reported them), which is to be expected by using a not-yet-released version (stable/2026.1 git branch).

Next step is trying to find documentation on how to use it to do a multi-machine installation where things like storage get important and interesting.

I'll keep you posted. If you do not hear from me again, you know why... :-)

#OpenStack #kolla-ansible #HomeLab #HellYeah #Virtualization #Cloud

Stop using user passwords for OpenStack automation

OpenStack 자동화 시 사용자 비밀번호 대신 Application Credentials 사용을 권장한다. Application Credentials는 사용자 비밀번호를 재사용하지 않고, 역할 기반 최소 권한 원칙을 적용해 각 자동화 작업별로 별도의 자격증명을 생성할 수 있다. 이 자격증명은 프로젝트 범위로 생성되며, 비밀번호 유출 위험을 줄이고 필요 시 개별 자격증명을 폐기하거나 교체할 수 있어 보안성이 높다. OpenStack CLI를 통해 역할을 지정하고 만료일을 설정하는 등 세부 설정이 가능하다.

https://thobias.org/2026/05/10/openstack_app_credentials.html

#openstack #automation #security #applicationcredentials #cloud

GitLab should look into Zuul

https://www.maffulli.net/2026/05/13/gitlab-should-look-into-zuul/

At the Chemnitz #Linux Days, Michael Scherle and Rafael Gieschke presented the current status of the VDI for #OpenStack project. This project aims to develop a VDI based open source technology with the goal of creating a comprehensive IT toolkit that promotes digital sovereignty.

👉 Watch the video: https://media.ccc.de/v/clt26-417-open-source-vdi-hw-beschleunigter-remote-access-zu-libvirt

👉 Get the slides: https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2026/media/programm/folien/417.pdf

👉 Find out more about the project: https://nfdi4bioimage.de/en/news/presenting-the-nfdi4bioimage-driven-vdi-service-at-clt-2026/