I've recently been writing OpenStack Nova hooks for integration of newly deployed OpenStack nova instances with our existing infrastructure systems. Though the OpenStack Developer Documentation is very good, there is not that much documentation out there on real world end-user experiences of writing nova hooks. In this …

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If you develop python modules for distribution, you likely use python setuptools. It's very useful and takes lots of the manual operations out of distributing python code and modules. I recently started going one step further and using the bdist_rpm setup.py command option to automatically build rpms for my python code …

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