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July 2025: OpenCHAMI Monthly Newsletter

OpenCHAMI Monthly Newsletter — July 2025 Edition

🌞 On the Move: Summer Progress Across the OpenCHAMI Community!

As summer hits its stride, so does the OpenCHAMI community. Far from slowing down, we’re accelerating—rolling out new tools, expanding collaboration across institutions, and laying the groundwork for our upcoming Developer Summit.

This month is packed with progress: fresh community resources, upcoming events, and behind-the-scenes work that’s shaping the next chapter of our shared mission. Whether you’re deeply involved or just tuning in, there’s never been a better time to engage.

🚀 Important Announcements & Upcoming Events

📅 Register for TACC Developer Summit 2025

Join us for the OpenCHAMI Developer Summit @ TACC 2025 in Austin, TX, from September 9–11, 2025. Spots are filling up quickly, so secure your registration today!

Whether you’re just getting started with OpenCHAMI or are a long-time contributor, there’s something for everyone—from hands-on tutorials and collaborative hackathons to in-depth governance discussions that shape the future of the project.

👉 Register early — space is limited!

🔧 Project Updates

💬 Centralized Community Discussions

To better support our community, we’re shifting troubleshooting and support questions from private messages to structured platforms:

  • GitHub Discussions — Ask questions, find answers, and create an accessible knowledge base.
  • Community Wiki — Visit our community wiki for comprehensive troubleshooting guides.

Together, these tools help us build scalable, efficient support for everyone.

🛠️ Technical Developments

  • Ongoing enhancements in the PCS service, including improved PDU integration
  • SMD API updates for seamless Magellan integration
  • Advanced Image Builder capabilities for improved customization and efficiency

📚 Key RFDs for Discussion

We encourage continued engagement on these RFDs:

🌐 OpenCHAMI @ PEARC25

OpenCHAMI participated in the PEARC25 Conference (July 20–24), presenting our tutorial: “Bootstrapping and Cluster DevOps with OpenCHAMI”

  • Covered cloud-like provisioning for HPC clusters
  • Hands-on DevOps workflows for managing HPC environments
  • Sparked renewed interest in stateful boot and storage cluster integration

📢 OpenHPC is now exploring inclusion of OpenCHAMI in their next release ahead of SC25.

Thanks to everyone who attended and engaged in thoughtful discussions!

📈 TSC Meeting Outcomes — July 3, 2025

Highlights from the July TSC meeting:

  • ✅ Adoption of Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) for decision tracking
  • 📩 Recommendation to use dedicated email clients for GitHub notifications
  • 🤝 Dell’s involvement continues to boost community engagement
  • 🌍 ISC 2025 momentum carries forward — interest from Europe, positive feedback, and tutorial expansion plans
  • 📊 Prioritization of 70 open RFCs, including microservice authentication and distributed management
  • 📅 Developer Summit planning advances — agenda includes project overview, RFC discussions, and hackathon

💬 Community Updates

📅 Community Meeting — July 22, 2025

Our July monthly call featured exciting demos and roadmap discussions:

🔌 Power Control Demo — HPE

Ben McDonald (HPE) demonstrated full-stack power control using OpenCHAMI CLI tools.

  • Discover, import, and toggle PDU outlets entirely via CLI
  • Showcased integrated PCS + Magellan workflows
  • A major step forward for hardware lifecycle management

🔗 PCS Demo Repository

⚙️ CLI Normalization RFD — LBL

Travis Raines (LBL) proposed CLI normalization across all OpenCHAMI tools:

  • Standardizing flags, logging levels, auth options, and endpoints
  • Exploring shared libraries (urfave/cli or cobra)
  • Goal: consistency for developers and easier onboarding

📌 RFD #89: CLI Normalization

🧠 Lifecycle & Power-Service Discussions

  • Node lifecycle state machine improvements
  • Potential for a standalone power-management microservice
  • Alignment with distributed tracing goals

📽️ Watch the July Meeting Recording 📝 Read the July Meeting Minutes

📅 Upcoming Community Meeting

Tuesday, August 26, 2025 — 10:00AM MST 👉 Join the OpenCHAMI Community Meeting

🙋 Get Involved

Your involvement makes OpenCHAMI better. Here’s how to participate:

🎓 Miscellaneous

  • Quick Tip: Regularly check GitHub Discussions for answers to common questions and troubleshooting tips
  • Upcoming Events:
    • 📅 Community Meeting — August 26, 2025
    • 🎓 TACC25 Developer Summit — September 9–11, 2025 (Austin, TX)

Thanks for reading! Until next time, stay secure and keep automating — The OpenCHAMI Team

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