Madhu Kashyap, senior product manager at Brocade, offers this update on Tacker, a project to develop a general-purpose network functions virtualization orchestrator.

If this sounds like a beast of a move, technical solutions architect Nathan Portegijs has you covered with this step-by-step tutorial.

Ben Armstrong, principal program manager on the core virtualization team at Microsoft, gets you up and running in about an hour — coffee break included.

IBM’s Boris Kuschel offers this in-depth tutorial that will get all your signs saying yes.

Gal Sagie, an open source software architect at Huawei, introduces project Kuryr, the platform between Docker and Neutron.

Authors Kevin Jackson, Cody Bunch and Egle Sigle launch an Easter egg challenge and talk about common misconceptions and the role of the new OpenStack Innovation Center.

This simple metadata system is great way to navigate OpenStack. Here’s how they work and how to contribute new ones.

Loic Dachary walks you through testing OpenStack’s distributed object store and file system.

Want OpenStack to talk with Docker Machine? Spencer Smith, cloud engineer at Solinea, shows you how to the conversation started, then deploy a quick container.

A high-level guide for a rolling Nova upgrade, from Dan Smith, principal software engineer
at Red Hat.