Meet the troubleshooters and firefighters of the OpenStack Security project and how you can get involved.

Augustina Ragwitz, senior OpenStack deployment engineer at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, shares the experience of writing, submitting, and debugging her first patch.

By combining Docker Machine and OpenStack, you create a nice “consumer/provider” relationship between OpenStack and Docker, says VMware’s Scott Lowe in this tutorial.

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.