Edit: As I got a bit deeper into the copies, a new method was needed. Common First, make an image of the usb disk in question. To do this, open Disk Utility, and then: Click File Click New Click “New Image From Folder…” Select your folder Wait Next, find the image file in finder &
-> Continue reading USB Key Duplication on OSX on the Cheap
After much looking about, I couldn’t actually find a decent writeup on this. At least not all in one place. So after having beat my face against it for a little while (repeatedly), I came up with the below. Installing OpenLDAP You’ll need an Ubuntu 14.04 box for this (tho, 12.04 should also work). Once
-> Continue reading Quiet or Unattended Installing OpenLDAP on Ubuntu 14.04
Our Story So Far So, if you are just joining up, what we are building is set to mimic the setup described Here. We have done a bit of set up in parts 1 and 2: – OpenStack Lumberjack Part 1 – OpenStack Lumberjack Part 2 In this post, we will install Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash,
-> Continue reading OpenStack Lumberjack – Part 3 Logstash and Kibana
OpenStack Lumberjack – Part 2 OpenStack Services Configuring OpenStack for Remote Logging Logging for OpenStack has come quite a ways. What I’m going to attempt to do over a few posts, is recreate and expand a bit on what was discussed at this last OpenStack Summit with regard to Log Management and Mining in OpenStack.
-> Continue reading OpenStack LumberJack – Part 2 Services & Remote Logging
Setting up rsyslogd for OpenStack Logging for OpenStack has come quite a ways. What I’m going to attempt to do over a few posts, is recreate and expand a bit on what was discussed at this last OpenStack Summit with regard to Log Management and Mining in OpenStack. For now, that means installing rsyslogd and
-> Continue reading OpenStack LumberJack – Part 1 rsyslog
Remember the basic hardening we did? No? Well, go forth and read here. I’ll wait. … Done? Ok, so you are with us on the promise and premise of cloud and short lived application servers. Cattle all the things! You are also with me on the idea that even cattle need to be vaccinated from
-> Continue reading Basic Hardening Part 2: Using Heat Templates
It’s not often (at least in the OpenStack world) that you get 70% done with a blog post explaining a thing and then find a resource that does it better than you could have. In this case, while it’s a bit dated, is a presentation from Mirantis on Heat, it’s Concepts, Architecture, and Workflow: An
-> Continue reading OpenStack Heat Concepts, Architecture, and Workflow
Autoscaling is one of the more interesting (and outstanding) features of OpenStack Heat. In this post, you’ll build a Devstack environment in a VM with Heat, Neutron, and Ceilometer. This will enable you to run the Autoscaling examples. Getting Started To get started, copy the following into a Vagrantfile and vagrant-up. This generally takes
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Link dump! That is, I’ve been looking into OpenStack Heat quite a bit lately. That generally means I’ve got way too many browser tabs open at the moment and need to shut some down. Thus, here comes a huge list of OpenStack links and resources. Heat Websites http://docs.openstack.org/developer/heat/template_guide/openstack.html http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/heat-cloudopen-final.pdf http://zenodo.org/record/7571/files/CERN_openlab_report_Michelino.pdf http://www.slideshare.net/openstackindia/introduction-to-openstack-heat http://docs.openstack.org/developer/heat/template_guide/openstack.html http://docs.openstack.org/developer/heat/template_guide/hot_spec.html#hot-spec http://blog.oddbit.com/2013/12/06/an-introduction-to-openstack-heat/ http://www.sebastien-han.fr/blog/2013/09/06/openstack-heat-and-ceilometer-got-their-dashboard-panel/
-> Continue reading OpenStack Heat Link-Dump
The “What’s New in Havana?” session is a high-level review of some of the changes that came with the November 2013 release of OpenStack. Presented by Eric Wright (@Discoposse) with help from Cody Bunch and Kenneth Hui, the session covers the core projects and is appropriate for those familiar with, or just getting started with
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag #C2OS Follow-up: What’s new in OpenStack Havana with Eric Wright (@discoposse)
No show notes this time around, we’ve covered that in other posts. @VMTrooper with DevOps and Puppet-OpenStack #vBrownBag OpenStack – Intro to DevOps and Puppet from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. @cody_bunch and PuppetLabs-Grizzly #vBrownBag OpenStack – PuppetLabs Grizzly from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.
Let’s go a bit further down the PuppetLabs-Grizzly rabbit hole. We talked quite extensively about these on the #vBrownBag, but some of them need a bit further explanation here. Background PuppetLabs/Grizzly is a ‘new’ (new is a relative thing on the internets, and depending on when you find this post, it may not be so
-> Continue reading A Bit Deeper With PuppetLabs-Grizzly
This one is a bit outside our Couch to OpenStack series but touches on something that has been tickling the back of folks minds for a while. VMware has jumped into the OpenStack ecosystem. What does that mean? How does that work? OpenStack on vSphere This week we had on Scott Lowe from VMware to
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag – OpenStack with vSphere
Thanks again for everyone coming along for the Nagios ride. To recap we: Reviewed the requirements for monitoring. Installation of the NPRE agent Other monitoring solutions, and why we chose Nagios Installation of Nagios How to monitor certain services How to quickly and easily install and configure dashboards Here are the resources from the show:
-> Continue reading Couch to OpenStack – Monitoring Follow-Up
The next episode of the Couch to OpenStack Series will be an office hours session led by Eric Wright. It will be a good opportunity for new and existing podcast viewers to reflect on what we’ve covered up to this point. The goal is to clear up any questions that you may have on OpenStack.
-> Continue reading Couch to OpenStack Office Hours on August 20, 2013
Thanks everyone for coming along last night. To recap, we: Used git to clone the Couch to OpenStack repo Used Vagrant to stand up the ‘controller’, ‘compute’, ‘cinder’, and ‘quantum’ VMs Used the Vagrant shell provisioner to install Ubuntu Grizzly repos MySQL KeyStone Glance Nova Cinder Quantum Setup .stackrc with environment variables Discussed the OpenStack
-> Continue reading Couch to OpenStack – Quantum Follow-Up
Thanks everyone for coming along last night. To recap, we: Used git to clone the Couch to OpenStack repo Used Vagrant to stand up the ‘controller’, ‘compute’, and ‘Cinder’ VMs Used the Vagrant shell provisioner to install Ubuntu Grizzly repos MySQL KeyStone Glance Nova Cinder Setup .stackrc with environment variables Discussed the OpenStack Block Storage
-> Continue reading Couch to OpenStack – Cinder Follow-Up
Thanks everyone for coming along last night. To recap, we: Used git to clone the Couch to OpenStack repo Used Vagrant to stand up the ‘controller’ and ‘compute’ VMs Use the Vagrant shell provisioner to install Ubuntu Grizzly repos MySQL KeyStone Glance Nova Setup .stackrc with environment variables Discussed the OpenStack Compute services and scenarios
-> Continue reading Couch to OpenStack – Nova Follow-Up
Thanks everyone for coming along last night. To recap we: Used git to clone the Couch to OpenStack repo Used Vagrant to stand up the ‘controller’ VM Use the Vagrant shell provisioner to install Ubuntu Grizzly repos MySQL KeyStone Glance Setup .stackrc with environment variables Discussed OpenStack Image services and the integration with Compute For
-> Continue reading Couch to OpenStack – Glance Follow-Up
Howdy Couch to OpenStackers! There have been some things happening in “the real world” that require me to be away for an extended period. Thus, I’ll be stepping back from this series of podcasts for a bit. That said, you are in amazing hands: I’d like to take a moment to introduce Trevor Roberts, Jr. and Jonathan
-> Continue reading Couch To OpenStack – The Path Forward