After having spent too much time down a rabbit hole that involved rebuilding at least one Pi, it seems the Grizzly and Havana OpenStack packages have not been ported to the Raspberry Pi. All is not lost however, it seems one can download the sources and recompile ALL THE THINGS or so. Here is a
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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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Recently I’ve embarked down a course to get OpenStack up and running on the Raspberry Pi. Before we get too deep into the particulars, let’s talk about why such a thing should be done. What could one gain by running OpenStack on the Pi? Who would use it? and more. For me, there are a
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Turtles on Rocks! After spending half the night up reading and watching various videos around SDN and the varied options out there, I stumbled on this great post by Brent Salisbury on working with Mininet and OpenDaylight. It was however a bit manual for spinning up more than a handful of times, so I threw
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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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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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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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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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Note: This one will feel a bit live-blogish as well. It being written in a hurry and such. Today’s keynotes had a bit of a different flavor than yesterdays. While there were still user use cases up front, they took a slightly different tone. Keynote themes: There were a few themes that cut across the
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Note: This is a live blog, no formatting, no editing, etc. Just a collection of notes. Problems: New business line, super growth, 10x in next few years Cost down, availability up vDesktop, massive config changes, from IE to Chrome with a redeploy Win => KVM => DevStack => 12.04 Thin Client => Switch => VDI
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If this rambles, I apologize. What follows next, are my impressions, thoughts, and notes from Day 1 of the November 2013 Design Summit in Hong Kong. Keynotes: The user storys this time around focused on Media, both big and small, along with Concur, the Expense reporting / management company. While not as huge as some
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Note: This is a live blog. It lacks formatting, editing, or any of the usual quality control that goes into these things. Bridging the Gap: Explaining OpenStack to the VMware Admin Speaking: Kenneth Hui – Open Cloud Architect, Rackspace Scott Lowe – Engineering Architect, VMware Architecture Different origins. vSphere to emulate infrastructure; OpenStack to provide
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Note: This is a liveblog. I didn’t proof read / spellcheck etc. An Evaluation of OpenStack Deployment Frameworks Symantec has a diverse set of development needs across product lines, etc. Consolidation of those systems OpenStack and other OSS building blocks Desire to submit patches back to the project, security fixes, etc. Tried 5 different tools,
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Myself and Kevin Jackson will be at the Hong Kong Summit this week and we brought books. Lots of them. Specifically, we will be at the Rackspace Booth every day from 1 – 2PM (or until the books run out) handing out copies of the OpenStack Cookbook and talking OpenStack, Cloud, Rackspace, etc. Come find
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Wikipedia Rabbit Hole Warning! These links are provided with no context and no explanation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Disk_scheduling_algorithms http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noop_scheduler http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadline_scheduler http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticipatory_scheduling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFQ http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/block/as-iosched.txt http://www.redhat.com/magazine/008jun05/features/schedulers/ http://storageboy.com/2012/10/23/redhat-io-tuning-made-easy-centos-and-oracle-linux-too/ http://blog.mwpreston.net/2013/09/16/tuning-linux-debian-in-a-vsphere-vm-part-3-usrbinrandom/ http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp4285.html
While working on the OpenStack Cookbook (buy it here), we used Vagrant (check it out here). Vagrant allowed us to specify a number of VMs in a given file, and power them all up or down as a single operation. It was extremely useful for sharing an environment between two authors. That said, there are
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It seems there is not an /etc/lsb-release (or /etc/redhat-release) for an OpenStack node. However, you can get the installed version in other ways. From a compute node, run the following commands: $ nova-manage shell python Python 2.7.3 (default, Sep 26 2013, 20:03:06) [GCC 4.6.3] on linux2 Type “help”, “copyright”, “credits” or “license” for more information.
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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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