CID also share his journey from ALX (African Leadership X), the MLH Fellowship to full-time open source maintainer of OpenStack Ironic and how it changed his life.

The conversation covers:

• What OpenStack Ironic is and the problem it solves for bare metal provisioning
• Runbooks, a feature for predefining and scoping automation steps across servers, and the upcoming Version 2 (V2) improvements
• Why this release cycle has focused heavily on security advisories and vulnerability backports across four stable release branches
• CID's path from the Major League Hacking (MLH) Fellowship and the African Leadership Experience (ALX) software engineering program to becoming a full-time open source maintainer
• The realities of open source code review, the anxiety of working in public, and why backward compatibility is one of the most overlooked but critical skills in maintaining large infrastructure projects
• CID's advice for anyone facing rejection from a fellowship or open source community

Links
CID's Blog - https://auditorical.com/
OpenStack Ironic - https://opendev.org/openstack/ironic
MLH Fellowship - https://fellowship.mlh.com/
ALX - https://www.alxafrica.com/
Eventlet - https://evenlet.net/
Runbooks - https://docs.openstack.org/ironic/latest/admin/runbooks.html

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For a video version of this podcast, check out https://youtu.be/fbsI8l-MaFA.

The GR-OSS OUT Podcast is produced by Ben Wiley.

Special Guest: CID.