OpenStack Summit May 2015 Vancouver

Everyone knows that networking presents one of the biggest challenges in planning, deploying, and operating an OpenStack cloud, and the lack of sufficient practical documentation contributes significantly to the problem.

 

During the last development cycle, a group of people representing a wide range of skills, expertise, and perspectives including core developers, operators, trainers, and end users, joined forces to transform networking into a safer, happier place for everyone.

 

The new collaborative Networking Guide includes a handful of practical deployment scenarios covering basic architectures with Open vSwitch and Linux Bridge and leading-edge DVR and L3 HA architectures, but to get there we had to throw out the rule book and start from scratch when it came to how we write OpenStack documentation.

 

In this panel discussion, the team building the Networking Guide will discuss:

 

- Defining what needs to be understood about a topic

- Engaging the community in a collaborative effort

- Convincing subject matter experts to contribute their expertise

- Combining skill sets to achieve a large and complicated goal

 

Attendees will come away from this session with a better understanding of the process of documentation in the community setting (and maybe even a better understanding of Neutron).