(In fact, during recess, DreamHost asked if I would pass a note to OpenStack. I didn't look inside the note, but we can all guess what it said...)
I was hired specifically to work on cloud stuff here at DreamHost, and we've got a new team that's super-excited about this -- they're starting to gear up for increased contributions and community engagement, gettin' themselves some cloud. We've now got our own Launchpad team, we're working on a handful of blueprints, chatting it up on mail lists and IRC meetings -- you get the picture :-) Exciting times.
For official blog posts and other news items that highlight DreamHost's interest and involvement in OpenStack, check these out:
- DreamHost Pledges Support to OpenStack Project
- DreamHost and OpenStack sitting in a tree...
- DreamHost uses Dell’s Crowbar as a lever to raise automation (more on Crowbar here)
- Web Host DreamHost Contributing Code for Ceph File System to OpenStack
- Ceph and OpenStack at OSCON 2011
P.S. We're hiring Python rock-stars!
P.P.S. Did I mention that DH is an AWESOME place to work? We got an award for that, two years in a row :-)
Glad to hear they're supporting OpenStack (and presumably Python). I know for a long time Python web apps were near impossible to run reliably there, especially long running server types. Best of luck with your work there!
ReplyDelete@Unknown: Yeah, Python is a relatively new addition to the general skillset at DreamHost (given that we've been in business since the late 90s). I'd love to hear more about your experiences of Python not being supported well, though. And thanks for the well-wishes :-)
ReplyDeleteGlad to have you on board, Duncan!
ReplyDelete@cleverdevil -- thanks, man! It's awesome being part of such an amazingly fun company and team :-)
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to meeting you at one of the SFBay OpenStack meetups!
ReplyDelete@Unknown #2, I'd say likewise, but I don't know who you are ;-)
ReplyDeleteRegardless, I've been itching to attend; schedule and travel have prevented it, but I'm looking forward to 2012, if only because things will stabilize and I'll be around more!
See you there!
What are other server providers similar to Dreamhost (DH) doing with Openstack? What am I, as a DH server user, likely to see as the first DH offering or is it going to installed across all server platforms as default infrastructure. Any idea?
ReplyDelete- Skip
@SkipR,
ReplyDeleteSome service providers are exploring OpenStack for use in building internal private clouds; while others are looking at OpenStack to be the basis of a public cloud offering. We are one of the latter :-)
As a DreamHost customer, you'll most likely see an object storage service roll out pretty soon. (Some of us have actually been recently improving the txAWS asyn Python library while testing against our internal deployments of this!) Our next cloudy offering will be a compute cloud built on OpenStack.
Note that these are both *new* offerings -- they will not be impacting current infrastructure. However, once released, they will be available for our customers (such as yourself!) to use :-) We're putting together some kick-ass documentation, too -- so folks should be able to jump in with both feed and be up and running in no time.
Hope that helps.