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About Aaron Rosen
randomness and things
Aaron’s Blog is a technical notebook maintained by username arosen, focused on open-source cloud infrastructure work, primarily inside the OpenStack ecosystem.
Who writes this
This is a personal site where the author documents experiments, release notes, and how-tos related to building and operating OpenStack clouds. Posts are written from the perspective of a contributor working hands-on with the code rather than as product announcements.
| Site | Aaron’s Blog |
| Tagline | randomness and things |
| Handle | arosen |
| Platform | WordPress |
Focus areas
- OpenStack networking with Neutron, including high-availability patterns using VRRP.
- Compute and virtualization topics around Nova, Open vSwitch, and Libvirt.
- Policy-as-code work through the Congress project and the python-congressclient.
- Day-to-day cloud automation: bootable images, metadata bootstrapping, flavor access control.
- Development workflow notes on cross-project patch testing and pushing changes to Gerrit over HTTPS.
A short reading path
Posts span from 2012 through 2015, tracking OpenStack release cycles including Folsom, Grizzly, Havana, and Icehouse.
- Start with networking fundamentals: Open vSwitch and Libvirt (February 21, 2012).
- Move into application patterns: Building a Multi-Tier Application With OpenStack (April 3, 2013).
- Continue with resilience and tooling through the Icehouse-era posts from 2014.
