Outreachy with OpenStack Zaqar

• Shaifali Agrawal
• Pursuing Masters in Computer Application
• Outreachy round 9(Dec'14 to March 15) Intern with OpenStack Foundation
• 2015 Google Summer of Code Intern, Full Stack Django Developer

• Aimed to encourage more students into Open Source development
• Focused on Coding
• Only development tasks!
• Can apply as many times as you want while you are a student

Outreachy

• Aimed to encourage more women to get involved with Computer Science, tech and the Open Source world
• Run by GNOME Foundation
• Previously known as Outreach Program for Women(OPW)

Sponsors

Eligibility for Outreachy

• Most of the projects are only for Women
• Have not been a previous GSoC or Outreachy (OPW) intern
• No age limit, no need to be student
• Projects involve coding, design, documentation, marketing
• Happens twice a year!

How it Works?

• Choose a project
• Talk to the mentor and other developers of that project
• Install and play with the software/product
• Make initial contribution(s)
• Write Application
• Submit it!

How it Worked for me!

• I chose few Python based, data related projects
• Started lurking on thier IRC channel
  • #openstack-opw for OpenStack
• Discuss about project with Mentor and other developers
• Decided to work with OpenStack :)
• Installed OpenStack using DevStack
• Got help from:
• Former Outreachy inters: vkmc, sayali, amalagon
• Mentors: flaper87, iccha, nikhil_k

My Initial Contribution

• Best Way:
• Fix a Bug which is easy to fix
• tag low_hanging_fruits for OpenStack
• I got familiar with:
  • Code Base
  • Contributing Process
  • Code Review Process
  • Hacking Rules

My First Patch

Application Process

• Discuss more with the assigned mentor about the project
• Write an application, get it reviewed
• Submit it!

You Achieve

• Get comfortable with Open Source development
• Get involved with the community
• Mentoring
• 5500 USD
• Travel Grant to attend OpenStack summit
• Job offers!

My Project

• Based on Zaqar
• To split the data and control planes of storage layer of Zaqar completely
• Mentor - Flavio Percoco(flaper87)
• Its fun working with Zaqar Devs!

What is Zaqar?

Multi-tenant Messaging and Notification service for OpenStack

Inside Black Box

Why Zaqar?

• The API
• HTTP based
• Firewall friendly
• Authenticate with Keystone
• Multiple messaging patterns
• Easy to Scale
• Fully configurable

My Task

• Zaqar is built with 2 layers - Transport and Storage
• Storage layer consists of two planes - data and control
• I have split the two planes such that now users can use different datastore for both the planes
• Blueprint Link

First Zaqar Patch

Contact Details

• exploreshaifali on IRC, github, twitter
• agrawalshaifali09@gmail.com
• Slides are available exploreshaifali.github.io

Questions?

Thank You!

Refrences

• Outreachy
• Outreachy Presentation Material
• GsoC FAQ
• OpenStack Internships
• OpenStack OPW
• Zaqar Wiki
• Why Zaqar