#vBrownBag at PuppetConf 2013: Nick Weaver Interview

The vBrownBag Team had a great time at VMworld 2013 with the live tech talks and with meeting many of our webcast attendees and listeners. The week before, though, a few of us actually attended another IT conference that happened in San Francisco: PuppetConf 2013. VMware’s vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS) is leveraging Puppet in its[…]

Couch to OpenStack – Quantum Follow-Up

Thanks everyone for coming along last night. To recap, we: Used git to clone the Couch to OpenStack repo Used Vagrant to stand up the ‘controller’, ‘compute’, ‘cinder’, and ‘quantum’ VMs Used the Vagrant shell provisioner to install Ubuntu Grizzly repos MySQL KeyStone Glance Nova Cinder Quantum Setup .stackrc with environment variables Discussed the OpenStack[…]

Couch to OpenStack – Cinder Follow-Up

Thanks everyone for coming along last night. To recap, we: Used git to clone the Couch to OpenStack repo Used Vagrant to stand up the ‘controller’, ‘compute’, and ‘Cinder’ VMs Used the Vagrant shell provisioner to install Ubuntu Grizzly repos MySQL KeyStone Glance Nova Cinder Setup .stackrc with environment variables Discussed the OpenStack Block Storage[…]

Couch to OpenStack – Nova Follow-Up

Thanks everyone for coming along last night. To recap, we: Used git to clone the Couch to OpenStack repo Used Vagrant to stand up the ‘controller’ and ‘compute’ VMs Use the Vagrant shell provisioner to install Ubuntu Grizzly repos MySQL KeyStone Glance Nova Setup .stackrc with environment variables Discussed the OpenStack Compute services and scenarios[…]

Couch to OpenStack – Glance Follow-Up

Thanks everyone for coming along last night. To recap we: Used git to clone the Couch to OpenStack repo Used Vagrant to stand up the ‘controller’ VM Use the Vagrant shell provisioner to install Ubuntu Grizzly repos MySQL KeyStone Glance Setup .stackrc with environment variables Discussed OpenStack Image services and the integration with Compute For[…]

#vBrownBag Presenter Spotlight: Gurusimran Khalsa

Gurusimran Khalsa is the featured vBrownBag Presenter this week. Gurusimran, aka GS, is a Senior Consulting Engineer for Presidio. He has presented multiple times for the vBrownBag podcasts on the topics of Security as well as VCAP Exam experiences. In his free time, GS is one of the leaders of the New Mexico VMUG, and[…]

#vBrownBag Presenter Spotlight: Shane Williford

The vBrownBag Presenter Spotlight is back after a brief hiatus.  This week, we have Shane Williford (aka Mr. CoolSport00) joining us! Shane is a Sr. Systems Engineer for the Kansas City School Systems who enjoys sharing his insights on implementations and various topics that might frustrate other users (ex: SSL Certificates, Location-based printing for VDI).[…]

#vBrownBag Presenter Spotlight: Randy Keener

This week’s guest is Randy Keener.  If you have been to either of the 2012 VMworlds, you will recognize Randy from the #NotSupported Tech Talks.  These sessions were a huge hit in San Francisco and Barcelona, and I’m confident that we will see them again at future VMworlds. For this week’s interview, Randy had some[…]