Join us at the OpenStack Summit Barcelona and learn how to take the wizardry out of OpenStack performance and scale testing with Browbeat. Tuesday, October 25th 2:15-2:55pm in P1 room 112. Learn how to get started with Browbeat, relevant performance/scale issues and metrics, future roadmap and a whole lot more. Continue reading
Author: Will Foster
Upstream Meeting Notes Now Available
We now hold regular upstream IRC meetings in #openstack-browbeat on irc.freenode.net every Wednesday at 11am EDT / 4pm BST. You can find the latest meeting notes and action items here, courtesy of meetbot. We’re going to try to do this on a weekly basis. Users, contributors and interested parties always welcome.
Browbeat ELK Stack Ansible Playbooks Now Support Fluentd
Introduced in a recent commit, the Browbeat Ansible playbooks used to deploy the ELK stack now support Fluentd as a backend logging option. You can now take advantage of the logging_backend variable in install/group_vars/all.yml to choose Fluentd over Logstash.
(Video) Contributing to the Browbeat Project
Here’s a very short, simple video showing how to contribute code to the Browbeat Project.
- Clone our git repo
- Make changes needed, save
- Add your changes via git and initiate git-review
Browbeat Is Now an OpenStack Project
As of a recent OpenStack commit Browbeat has now moved to the OpenStack.org namespace! Stay tuned for updated documentation around contributing and getting involved with the project. Below are new services provided by the OpenStack upstream infrastructure, CI and gating:
▣ Browbeat Git Web
▣ Browbeat Github
▣ Browbeat Gerritt Code Review
Browbeat at the OpenStack Summit
Joe Talerico spoke briefly about Browbeat during some joint Rackspace/Red Hat sesssions at the OpenStack Summit. Browbeat was also mentioned during the Trystack.org deep dive where it’s being use to tune the Trystack public cloud and automate deployment of utility and graphing services.
- Slide deck for Rackspace / Red Hat collaboration
- Trystack.org talk and writeup.
ELK Stack and Client Support
ELK stack support is coming soon merged into Browbeat. This provides fully automated ELK server and client deployments with some additional tuning and settings. Continue reading
