Today marks the official release of the second edition of the OpenStack Cloud Computing cookbook. You can buy the Kindle edition here or the Hard Copy here. What is the Cookbook? The OpenStack Cookbook is a collection of ‘recipes’ that will show you how to build, configure, manage, and maintain an OpenStack environment. This edition
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Despite my efforts to the contrary, I seem to be spending more and more time in VIM of late. Here is a little script I use to setup my environment so it handles tabs and such properly, as well as adds a thing to ensure my puppet meets the style guides:
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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Recently, Puppet Labs released an “Grizzly” module, based on their work with the Puppet Labs OpenStack module, that takes a more role based approach. That is, it breaks out things like controller, compute, and storage. It also combines them with Hiera in a much more elegant way than before. I covered using Puppet and Hiera
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This post is by Cody Bunch Well, not sure if they’re hacks, but they are some handy VMX file settings that can, at least marginally improve the performance of your VMs. VMX Settings v.vmx[“logging”] = “FALSE”v.vmx[“MemTrimRate”] = “0”v.vmx[“MemAllowAutoScaleDown”] = “FALSE”v.vmx[“mainMem.backing”] = “swap”v.vmx[“sched.mem.pshare.enable”] = “FALSE”v.vmx[“snapshot.disabled”] = “TRUE” v.vmx[“isolation.tools.unity.disable”] = “TRUE”v.vmx[“unity.allowCompostingInGuest”] = “FALSE”v.vmx[“unity.enableLaunchMenu”] = “FALSE”v.vmx[“unity.showBadges”] = “FALSE”v.vmx[“unity.showBorders”]
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Tonight we had on Josh Atwell and 50ish of our closest #vBrownBag friends to kick off our next few months of vSphere and Infrastructure automation. The video is below: Video #vBrownBag Automate ALL the things – Introduction from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.
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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Part of the work around the upcoming OpenStack Cookbook involved a refresh of the chapter on Monitoring. Specifically, we wanted to deliver an updated section with some tool changes that would reflect the current state of things in terms of OpenStack monitoring. That said, after spending weeks and weeks exploring other options, we came back
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This post is by Cody Bunch Following on Scott’s commitment to the community, I would like to announce that I too will be accepting five folks (VMware, OpenStack, Unix, etc…) who are willing to step up, volunteer, and speak for the first time at your local user group (be it VMUG or otherwise). So what
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This post is by Cody Bunch Before we get into the results, a few thanks need to go out to the folks at VMware that made this happen for the second year in a row, as well as our various #vBrownBag swag sponsors. If you didn’t get in on the swag scavenger hunt, no worries,
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Following on Scott’s commitment to the community, I would like to announce that I too will be accepting five folks (VMware, OpenStack, Unix, etc…) who are willing to step up, volunteer, and speak for the first time at your local user group (be it VMUG or otherwise). So what does this mean? I will help
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The question came up during a #vBrownBag: “How do you disable that annoying little popup for promiscuous mode”. If you have worked with Autolab, you will have seen it too. About 8 times each Autolab build (4 for each nested esxi host). To bypass it in Fusion 6, there are two methods: Disabling Promiscuous Mode
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Thanks again for everyone coming along last night. To recap we: Pushed Monitoring back a week. Discussed OpenStack logging Dug into various service log files Enabled additional logging Showed how to restart various services Discussed OpenStack as a complex system Thanks again to Eric Wright (@discoposse) and Trevor Roberts (@VMTrooper) for presenting and hosting respectively.
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With VMworld 2013 under our belts and all the vBrownBag sessions available online here, it’s time to pick your favorites. This lets us, and your favorite presenters know what you want more of, or the corollary, what there should be less of. Head on over to vote.professionalvmware.com, log in with your twitter account, and let
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Here are these things in case I need to find them again: A link_to helper for Sinatrahttp://ididitmyway.herokuapp.com/past/2010/4/25/sinatra_helpers/ A flash[:something] gem for Sinatrahttps://github.com/SFEley/sinatra-flash OmniAuth for rails / rubyhttp://railsapps.github.io/tutorial-rails-mongoid-omniauth.html Twitter auth in Sinatrahttp://www.sitepoint.com/twitter-authentication-in-sinatra/
This post is by Cody Bunch This is the sort of post where one would say something about being tired, sore feet, or having the “VMworld crud”. While I've had a bit of all of those things, this is not that post. This post could also drone on and on about how despite the oddball
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Just a quick quick update before I’m stuck at VMworld for the week: Kevin Jackson is a ROCK STAR The long and short of that is the Manuscript for The OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook – Grizzly Edition is now 100% complete. He did this, largely without my support these last two months due to some
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Now that the manuscript for the OpenStack Cookbook has finished, or is in final edits all around, here are some of the books that I am either reading, or have in my backlog of things to read in the next few months. Reading List The Phoenix Project – Here – An interesting tale of IT
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Playing around with a few ideas for #vBrownBag tech talk voting, I was trying to deploy a ruby app with Puma and Ngnix. Here’s a number of the resources used: http://gerardmcgarry.com/blog/setting-a-virtual-host-nginx http://blog.andolasoft.com/2013/06/how-to-configure-rails-application-with-puma-and-ngnix-on-centos.html https://github.com/DruRly/reddit-in-sinatra http://www.drurly.com/blog/2012/06/30/build-reddit-in-sinatra-2/ http://www.drurly.com/blog/2013/06/09/sinatra-with-puma/ I also tied it in with Vagrant & the Rackspace provider. Depending on how things go, there will be a
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This post is by Cody Bunch. I’ve had a request or two recently on how to get started with VMware automation, what resources are there, and what tool should I use. This post aims to at least address two out of the three. That is, how to get started and what resources. Tool selection has
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