Great news, the vBrownBag crew will be at the OpenStack Summit in Atlanta this May. We will be making TechTalks and generally helping people get the most out of the summit. If you’d like to present a TechTalk you can signup using this form here. Now that we are committed to being there we need
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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
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Rather than slides tonight, since the “lab” environment is chewing all the resources available on my box, we’ll load a few blog posts and use this as the “show notes” page. At a high level, the steps are: Make a Chef Server (or have one handy anyways) Download the relevant cookbooks (https://github.com/rcbops/chef-cookbooks) Create an “environment”
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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
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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
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
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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
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 Setup .stackrc with environment variables Discussed OpenStack Identity authentication and authorization process flow Discussed OpenStack Concepts
-> Continue reading Couch to OpenStack – Keystone Follow-Up
Last night Mr. VMTrooper himself (@VMTrooper) walked us through the basics of Vagrant. That is, we started with nothing, installed Vagrant and VirtualBox. From there we spun up the first VM. Then we delved into some of the various provisioners, scripts, and more advanced multi-vm vagrant environments. If you are following along and get stuck,
-> Continue reading Couch to OpenStack – Vagrant Primer Follow-up
Part of the pre-work / homework for next weeks “Couch to OpenStack” program is to get a Vagrant environment going on your laptop (or wherever else you choose to run these things). We’re not going to go into the “Why Vagrant” or “What is Vagrant” questions. Those are better answered elsewhere. What follows are the
-> Continue reading Getting Started with Vagrant & VirtualBox
Consider this the official announcement and 48 hour warning for those that want to dive head first into OpenStack. If don’t know about the program, or want to sign up, check here. Couch to OpenStack Materials Needed for Day 1 git (http://github.com/) vagrant (http://vagrantup.com) Internets (3 to 4 acres of internet will be fine) VirtualBox
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In the theme of Couch to 5k which is more or less a getting started with getting fit, I’ll be kicking off July 2013 with a “Couch to OpenStack” series of blog posts and podcasts. We’ll begin at the beginning with a quick overview of OpenStack and it’s varied projects. We will then begin a
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag Podcast – Couch to OpenStack!
Sorry for the delay on some of these, it’s been an interesting few weeks. Here are the last bunch of #vBrownBag Podcast’s: Videos Puppet, DevOps, OpenStack, etc. 2013-05-28 20.04 #vBrownBag OpenStack – Puppet Labs, Config Management, DevOps, OpenStack from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. OpenStack Monitoring with Sensu 2013-05-28 20.04 #vBrownBag Sack Lunch – OpenStack Monitoring (Sensu)
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag Podcast Follow-ups
Video #vBrownBag OpenStack – Hands on with OpenStack Networking and Cinder from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.
Video #vBrownBag OpenStack – Opscode Chef, Matt Ray, DevOps and the state of OpenStack from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. Links http://www.amazon.com/Chef-Definitive-Guide-Stephen-Nelson-Smith/dp/1449327443/ http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Installing%20Omnibus%20Chef%20Client%20on%20Linux%20and%20Mac http://www.amazon.com/Instant-Chef-Starter-John-Ewart/dp/1782163468/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1368569194&sr=8-1&keywords=chef https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/IRC http://www.slideshare.net/mattray/chef-for-openstack-grizzly-roadmap http://www.opscode.com/blog/2012/06/27/chef-for-openstack/ http://docs.opscode.com/ https://learnchef.opscode.com/ http://chefconf.opscode.com/ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ74G2gKXdpwZkXEsclzcrA Stupid Youtube paste thing is broken, here’s the link https://github.com/mattray http://www.slideshare.net/mattray http://community.opscode.com/users/mray http://www.slideshare.net/mattray/chef-and-openstack-workshop-from-chefconf-2013 Chef resources: https://learnchef.opscode.com/ https://docs.opscode.com Omnibus: https://github.com/opscode/omnibus-ruby https://twitter.com/RubyLeaders/status/334329015022284800 #openstack-chef on irc.freenode.net groups.google.com/group/opscode-chef-openstack @chefopenstack StackForge https://github.com/stackforge/cookbook-openstack-common/
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Video 2013-04-30 20.03 #vBrownBag Sack Lunch – OpenStack from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. Links Open Daylight lab – https://github.com/nerdalert/OpenDaylight-Lab https://github.com/nerdalert/OpenDaylight-Lab
Now that the Summit is over and most of us are back to feeling remotely human again. Here is a quick shot at the OpenStack #vBrownBag schedule for the next few weeks: All dates are for 8PM CST Derick Winkworth 30/04/2013 Open Topic Cody Bunch 07/05/2013 Hands on Cinder and Quantum Matt Ray 14/05/2013 DevOps,
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OpenStack Networking 2013-04-09 20.03 #vBrownBag Sack Lunch – OpenStack Networking from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. Swift 2013-04-02 20.03 #vBrownBag Sack Lunch – OpenStack Swift from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.