Large Deployment Team

Status: Active

Organisers: Matt Van Winkle 

Scope
A regular working group focused on the needs of larger deployments and helping drive solutions for those within the various OpenStack Projects.

How to Join

 * 1) Sign up to the openstack-operators mailing list and look for posts with "[Large deployments]" in the subject
 * 2) Email Matt Van Winkle  to get patched in
 * 3) Review bugs and specs and provide your input
 * 4) Raise awareness of significant specs and bugs on operators list
 * 5) Share more stories on Superuser

Structure

 * Mailing List: openstack-operators mailing list with "[Large deployments]" in the subject line
 * Regular Monthly meetings announced on the mailing list, in addition to sessions at the mid-cycle ops meetup and design summit - https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/LDT
 * Minutes from Monthly Meetings: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/LDT
 * Past Summits and Mid-cycle Meetups
 * Results from Tokyo Summit https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/TYO-ops-large-deployments-team
 * Results from Palo Alto Ops Meetup https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/PAO-ops-large-deployments
 * Results from Vancouver Summit https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/YVR-ops-large-deployments
 * Results from Philadelphia Ops Meetup https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/PHL-ops-large-deployments
 * Results from Paris Summit https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/kilo-summit-ops-large-deployments
 * Lessons learned at scale: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/lessons-learned-at-scale

Supporting initiatives
The following initiatives started as discussions within the Large Deployments group. They may eventually migrate to other parts of the Wiki.

Taxonomy
A project to address the inconsistent use of a number of key architectural terms in OpenStack.

Public Cloud requirements
Although public clouds usually involve large scale deployment of OpenStack, there are a number of issues and requirements for public clouds which don't involve scale. They are discussed here.