Author: Cody Bunch

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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OpenStack Heat Concepts, Architecture, and Workflow

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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
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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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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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Restart VMware Fusion Networking from the Command Line

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Every now and again I run into issues using Vagrant and VMware Fusion togther. Specifically around starting VMNET-DHCP servers. The following commands have done wonders to fix that in a pinch: sudo /Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmnet-cli –configure sudo /Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmnet-cli –stop sudo /Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmnet-cli –start

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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Razor – The Next Iteration

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Over the past bunch of months, the Razor project has been evolving, going through some changes and the like. I have not been as close to it as I would like. However, one of my fellow Rackers has and has put together a number of really good write-ups: http://anystacker.com/2014/01/new-razor-server-vs-old-razor-and-what-does-the-rewrite-mean-to-you/ http://anystacker.com/2014/01/vagrant-up-razor-server/ http://anystacker.com/2014/01/razor-server-chef-broker/ https://github.com/eglute/razor-server-vagrant The first one
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[Community] Learn about vSAN and Hyper-Converged Offerings, win the Deathstar!

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This post is by Cody Bunch David Davis, a long time supporter of the #vBrownBag effort, and “The Other” Scott Lowe are doing a vendor neutral, un-sponsored, community driven webinar around vSAN and Hyper-Convergence. (Registration here: http://www.virtualizationsoftware.com/convergence-webinar-registration/ ) From the signup page: Even while in beta, VSAN has become an overnight sensation thanks to its
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