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OpenStack Juno Summit Day 2 – Summary

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Doing this sort of thing from the sidelines is much much more difficult than I’d imagined. There is so much happening at the actual event and the social streams only touch the surface of it. Again, the #vBrownBags are live streaming all week, which does help Stream: http://professionalvmware.com/brownbags/vbrownbags-live/ Schedule: http://openstack.prov12n.com/vbrownbag-techtalks-schedule-atlanta/ The keynotes from today have
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OpenStack Juno Summit Day 1 – Summary

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I’m not at the summit this go around, and that is unfortunate as there are lots and lots of really excellent things going on. Here are some links I’ve collected from the twitters and some commentary on what’s been live-streamed. Live Streaming: Keynotes: http://www.openstack.org/ Tech Talks: http://professionalvmware.com/brownbags/vbrownbags-live/ Schedule: http://openstack.prov12n.com/vbrownbag-techtalks-schedule-atlanta/ Security: Security got called out in
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Getting Started With OpenStack IceHouse – Cookbook Style

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With the Juno summit underway, it means that OpenStack IceHouse shipped recently. As you may know, I worked with Mr Kevin Jackson (here) on the second OpenStack Cookbook which was a Grizzly release. Mind, books take a /long/ time to update, so we decided against re-releasing for IceHouse. That said, the examples in the book,
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Basic Hardening Part 2: Using Heat Templates

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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
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Basic Hardening with User Data / Cloud-Init

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The ‘cloud’ presents new and interesting issues around hardening an instance. If you buy into the cattle vs. puppies or cloudy application building mentality, your instances or VMs will be very short lived (Hours, Weeks, maybe Months). The internet however, doesn’t much care for how short lived the things are, and the attacks will begin
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How to Make A LOT of Devstack with Vagrant

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Sometimes you need to make A LOT of devstack instances, and on different providers. That is, some in the cloud, others locally, and then some. At least, I keep finding myself in situations where this happens, so, I made a little Vagrantfile to handle the details for me. Here is the Vagrantfile I use to
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Autoscaling with Heat on Devstack

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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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OpenStack Heat Link-Dump

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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/
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#vBrownBag at OpenStack Summit, first Sponsor

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I’m delighted to welcome HP to the vBrownBag sponsor list. HP are the first sponsor to signup to support the vBrownBag TechTalks at the OpenStack Summit in Atlanta. The TechTalks are taking the place of the lightning talks that happened at previous summits. We are mainly adding recording/streaming as well as the structure. The aim
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My First OpenStack Heat Template

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If you have followed some of my past work, you know I have a thing for automation and orchestration. Needless, I was super excited when I discovered OpenStack Orchestration (aka Heat). Don’t know what Heat is? The OpenStack Wiki page has a great explanation: Heat is the main project in the OpenStack Orchestration program. It
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Deploy Rackspace Private Cloud with Vagrant

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I know I’ve done a few of these before, but Mr. Thorne does a much much better job than I could. In addition, he has builds for VMware Fusion and VirtualBox. Also, scenarios with HA controllers, Neutron, and more. Go here and deploy: http://thornelabs.net/2013/12/17/deploy-rackspace-private-cloud-entirely-within-a-vagrantfile-on-virtualbox-or-vmware-fusion.html After the first 30 or so minutes you will have a
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#vBrownBag #C2OS Follow-up: What’s new in OpenStack Havana with Eric Wright (@discoposse)

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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
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OpenStack on Raspberry Pi: Part 2 – Getting Started

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In part 1 we talked about the “Why” behind this project. In this, we start talking about the “How”. In this post, the “How” that we will cover, will get us from “Ok I have a rPI” to where we’re ready to install OpenStack. We’ll cover: What we’re building Getting an OS onto the rPI
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20% off OpenStack Cookbook

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If you're at the OpenStack summit, and missed your chance to pick up a copy of the OpenStack Cookbook from the Rackspace booth, all is not lost. You can still pick up a copy directly from Packt pub, and for the duration of the Summit, get an additional 20% off: Go here: http://www.packtpub.com/openstack-cloud-computing-cookbook-second-edition/book At checkout,
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OpenStack Summit LiveBlog – Swift Disk design session

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Note: Live blog, blah blah, formatting, blah Disintermediated Hardware, that is, remove the middle layers between the application and the disk. Optimize the disk for object storage. “Why did you go down this particular path?” – Other approaches got us only part way. Let me ask you, “Why does swift use filesystems?” The world has
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OpenStack Summit LiveBlog – R&D DevOps on OpenStack

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Note: This is a liveblog, no edits. @Aethylred: R&D infrastructure highly variable and generates data at unpredictable rates. DevOps and #OpenStack allows researchers to control scaling. The DevOps session, Redmine for bugs, Chef/puppet, OpenLdap, svn & git, its a good OSS stack. Single portal, elastic cloud I think, for single pane for engineering, flexibility w/o
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OpenStack LiveBlog – TaskFlow and OpenStack

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Note: This is a live blog, I've not spent time editing, formatting, etc TaskFlow answers the “Statemanagement” issue. Workflows w/o state makes recovery an issue. Also reliablility can be an issue. Race conditions Manager <-> API Boundary undefined states Why does state matter? Reliability, consistency Upgrades, or recovering from the upgrades Easy to understand workflows
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