You know, for when your laptop can’t drive your lab anymore or something. Either way, here’s a quick overview of how I OpenCenter (and the rest of the Rackspace Private Cloud stack) running on “the cloud”. I followed the guide here: http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/dev/virtualenvs.html to get python & virtual environments going. Additionally, from a command line: virtualenv cd OpenCenter
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Automated OpenStack Installs you say? Build my own Private Cloud you say? DevOps, Hybrid, and the intercloud? Ok, so, now that we’ve scored buzzword bingo, what am I talking about? Edits in Mace-Windu After you get Chef going… Part 2 – Installing and configuring Razor with Chef: http://openstack.prov12n.com/chef-razor-openstack-part-2/ Part 3 – Bringing it all together, installing
-> Continue reading Chef, Razor, OpenStack – Part 1
A while back I met with Kevin Jackson (http://uksysadmin.wordpress.com/, @itarchitectkev) and gently (or not so gently) nudged him into updating the existing OpenStack Cookbook to Girzzly. As part of this we wanted to introduce new content (Quantum, Cinder, Automated / DevOps installations) etc. Because I pushed, I also inadvertently ended up under the bus for
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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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Too many tabs open to function otherwise. Here’s a quick dump of what has been going on. Most of it OpenStack Summit related. http://www.siliconloons.com/?p=448 – Good summit wrap up http://technicae.cogitat.io/2013/04/openstack-developer-summit-heat-followup.html http://www.danplanet.com/blog/2013/04/22/dans-partial-summary-of-the-nova-track/ http://fewbar.com/2013/04/the-rocket-ship-to-havana-openstack-summit-spring-2013/ https://region-a.geo-1.objects.hpcloudsvc.com/v1/42841271810042/Docs/OpenStackSummit_HeatOpenStackManagement.pdf http://dreamhost.com/dreamscape/2013/04/24/openstacknetworkingproject/ https://www.openstack.org/summit/portland-2013/session-videos/?day=1 < Videos Triple O – https://github.com/tripleo/incubator/blob/master/README.md Baremetal OpenStack – https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Baremetal
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.
This post here is a quick wrap of the sessions I presented as well as relevant links to the hands on bits: Hands on with OpenStack Cinder & OpenStack Networking Slides Do it yourself https://github.com/bunchc/summit_hands_on If you find an error, have any questions, etc. Drop me a line. PCI-DSS and Practical OpenStack Hardening Slides
Tell you what. I am still so tired after the summit I can barely person properly three days later. So instead of trying to put together all my thoughts, I’ll leave you with some from folks who were thinking clearly: http://robhirschfeld.com/2013/04/03/devops-upgrade-cube/ http://robhirschfeld.com/2013/04/10/openstack-interop/ http://swiftstack.com/blog/2013/04/15/openstack-summit-extending-swift-acls-and-metadata/ http://www.enovance.com/fr/blog/5594/openstack-havana-design-summit-in-portland-day-4 http://www.enovance.com/fr/blog/5567/openstack-havana-design-summit-in-portland-day-3 http://www.enovance.com/fr/blog/5550/openstack-havana-design-summit-in-portland-day-2 http://blog.hendrikvolkmer.de/2013/04/12/there-will-be-no-reliable-cloud-part-3/ (This was pre-summit iirc) If you have any
-> Continue reading OpenStack Summit – Summary part 1
This session is being led by Ferran Rodenas of VMware and Dekel Tankel of Cloud Foundry They’ll be working us through a deep dive into CF and CF-Bosh on OpenStack as well as the integration work they’ve done for CF and OpenStack. Cloud Foundry has moved to Pivotal, a joint effort outside VMware & EMC
-> Continue reading OpenStack Summit 13.04 Day 1: Cloud Foundry – Your PaaS on OpenStack
Here’s the link in case you missed it: http://openstackportland2013livestream.eventbrite.com/
It has been a crazy adventure from the last summit until now. During that time, I’ve shifted focus at work from being completely VMware focused to entirely OpenStack focused. We’ve also kicked off some OpenStack #vBrownBag podcasts. As I am sitting in the airport doing some final slide prep and demo tests, I’d like to
-> Continue reading OpenStack Summit – Day 0
A more practical (Ok, it’s not that practical) example of the multi provider vagrant file. I present ascii Nyan cat. From a box with either Fusion or Virtualbox: git clone https://github.com/bunchc/vagrant-nyancat.gitvagrant upvagrant sshtmux new-session -d ‘nyancat’ ; split-window -d ; attach Depending on the provider… wait 5 minutes, and then Nyan!
Time machine hated me between moves: http://superuser.com/questions/35152/how-do-i-retrieve-files-from-time-machine-backups-from-another-computer Bash Pipes – http://spin.atomicobject.com/2011/11/23/considered-harmful/ Swift in Grizzly hated me – https://answers.launchpad.net/swift/+question/222292 Changing VMX boot order – http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2011654 Installing Chef Server – http://openstack.prov12n.com/installing-chef-server-updated/ dnsmasq example config – http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/docs/dnsmasq.conf.example Quantum & Grizzly – http://www.mirantis.com/blog/a-new-agent-management-approach-in-quantum-for-openstack-grizzly/ Availability Zones in Grizzly – http://www.sebastien-han.fr/blog/2013/03/18/grizzly-availability-zones/ Trust and RBAC for OpenStack – http://adam.younglogic.com/2013/03/trusts-rbac/ Swift on the
-> Continue reading Link Dump – Too many open links
With the latest Vagrant out, you can start to do some cool things, like use different back ends. However, what if some of your team uses Fusion while others use vBox, and then for production you need to deploy to some flavor of Cloud? For the most part, your vagrant file will be able to
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Last night we had on a coworker of mine (as in sits less than 8 feet away) on to talk about the state of networking and what Quantum (and SDN) can bring to the table. Note: We had a screen resolution mismatch. With luck you’ll be able to see it better on the recording: 2013-03-26
-> Continue reading OpenStack #vBrownBag – Quantum and You
What can I say. It was a busy busy week, and I didn’t get this posted till now. Here it is, our podcast with some of the folks who wrote the OpenStack Operator Manual: 2013-03-19 20.02 #vBrownBag Sack Lunch – OpenStack Documentation from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.
Sorry about the last few weeks of last minute cancellations. I feel about like the dude in the picture above. That said, I do have at least the next three weeks lined up: Date Topic Who 3/19 OpenStack Ops OpenStack Ops 3/26 Open @rackerhacker 4/2 Quantum @mestery / @marktvoelker These will still be taking place
-> Continue reading OpenStack #vBrownBag Schedule
At some point in the last few weeks, Rackspace released an update to their OpenStack Private Cloud distro. This time around setting it up is straight forward, a line or two of copy & paste bash script. However, being as lazy as I am, I wanted to be able to build a cluster of these
-> Continue reading Vagrant and Multi-Node Rackspace Private Cloud
After our first two successful podcasts with Mike Metral (@mikemetral) we are continuing the series and diving into some more hands on driven OpenStack with Wayne Walls (@waynewalls) OpenStack #vBrownBag Podcast Details: Date/Time: Tuesday, 8PM CSTRegister: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/760886393 If you are interested in presenting, please drop a line.