This is a part of a series outlining how Nova, OpenStack’s compute component, supports live upgrades. This post focuses on versioning and handling compatibility in your RPC APIs, a baseline requirement for supporting environments with mixed versions.

How to snag a free copy of the manual by three IBM OpenStack pros at the Summit Tokyo…

This tutorial is intended to give you a tour of the basic Open Virtual Network (OVN) features using ovs-sandbox as a simulated test environment.

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.