One of the cool things in Horizon is, one can easily try newest things out. This assumes, you already have an OpenStack installation available somewhere.
If you haven't already installed git:
yum install git
To clone horizons upstream git repository, run the command
git clone https …The past Kilo development summit had the following things for Horizon covered.
The first session was a meetup between Horizon developers and operators. Most named painpoint was: managing a huge number of users and resources. Missing pagination on all kinds of pages was mentioned a …
Depending on your settings, OpenStack Dashboard produces lots of log output. Fortunately there is already a tool in place, which cleans them up for you. Looking at /var/log/httpd/ you'll probably notice files like access_log-(date).gz. They were generated by logrotate by compressing existent logs.
To use …
This post intends to give an overview on what happened during Horizon's Juno development cycle. Horizon's blueprints page on launchpad lists 31 implemented new features. They may be grouped into a few larger features.
Apache Hadoop is a widely adopted MapReduce implementation. The aim of the Sahara project is …
During the OpenStack Icehouse development cycle, we gained in Horizon the ability to use additional python packages by simply dropping in a file in the openstack_dashboard/enabled dir.
In the rest of the article, I'll propose a method to customize the look and feel, without breaking during package updates …
From my very personal view on the past OpenStack summit in Hong Kong, it has been a good and productive summit. Luckily, both of my sessions were accepted:
The first session was about how to separate Horizon and OpenStack Dashboard. It is very little known …
Sadly, I won't make it to the new Fedora users and developers conference Flock this time. Back in may, I proposed an OpenStack testing session.
The more I'm delighted, that we have Kashyap Chamarthy, who will leading the session. He also added some news around the event to his blog …
As you might heard, we at Fedora had FUDCons (Fedora Users and Developers conference), which is now replaced by a conference named Flock. The first one will be held in Charleston, South Carolina between Aug. 9th and 12th. 2013. Coming there is a unique chance this year, to meet many …
Based on the idea or proposal of Kieran Spear, I'll document here, what has to be done, if one needs to customize Horizon (for whatever reason).
Let's say, one needs to create a corporate theme, named horizon_bigcorp. Then we first need to change local_settings.py. In Fedora and …