Openstack on Stephen Finucane (Fin-oo-can)

This is a living document that describes the status of typing in various Python packages in the OpenStack system.

This talks was delivered during the OpenInfra Summit Europe in Paris in October 2025.

This talk introduced OpenStack Resource Controller (ORC), a set of controllers that allows management of OpenStack resources using Kubernetes CRDs.

One the joys (or miseries) of working on OpenStack client tooling is that you get exposed to all the nuances of the OpenStack API tooling.

I previously presented on our work to bring OpenAPI to OpenStack as part of the 2024 OpenInfra Summit Asia, the slides for which you can find here.

I’ve recently found myself once again working on the OpenStack Cinder CSI Driver and the Operator that OpenShift uses to deploy this.

This talk was delivered during the OpenInfra Summit Asia in Suwon in September 2024.

It’s an often overlooked fact that OpenStack has two wholly different mechanisms for provisioning block devices for instances.

This is part two of two.

In the Dalamation (2024.2) cycle, we’re working on adding OpenAPI schemas for a number of the OpenStack services.

I deploy OpenShift-on-OpenStack quite regularly these days.

This is part one of two.

Another short one.

This is part two of two.

This is part one of two.

Another one that really belongs in a separate “tips & tricks” section of the blog, which unfortunately does not yet exist.

A quick hack.

I’ve been playing around with Gophercloud over the past few days.

The API versioning schemes in use in OpenStack vary between services and have evolved since the early days of OpenStack.

This talk was delivered at PyCon Ireland 2022.