Hi everyone! @arielsanchezmor here. Just wanted to report that the 2nd edition of “Focus on the expert” interviews recorded during VMworld US 2017 are now all uploaded and published in their own Youtube playlist! We were also able to get 4 authors who recently released books to tell us more about them! The list: Corey
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There is not a whole heck of a lot that I was able to find in this area. Mayhaps it’s partly because of how KVM works. That is, VMs are naught but Linux processes and thus can be tuned the same way one tunes Linux. RedHat IBM IBM Part 2 OpenStack Linux-KVM Linux-KVM
I’ve normally got at least 3-4 books I’m reading at any given point. Sometimes they’re even related to what I do. That said, I don’t much like the echo chamber that becomes my own head, so, I asked via Twitter this morning what folks are reading and came up with a few good reads: Work-ish/Business-ish
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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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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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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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Last night Mr. VMTrooper himself (@VMTrooper) walked us through the basics of Vagrant. That is, we started with nothing, installed Vagrant and VirtualBox. From there we spun up the first VM. Then we delved into some of the various provisioners, scripts, and more advanced multi-vm vagrant environments. If you are following along and get stuck,
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In the theme of Couch to 5k which is more or less a getting started with getting fit, I’ll be kicking off July 2013 with a “Couch to OpenStack” series of blog posts and podcasts. We’ll begin at the beginning with a quick overview of OpenStack and it’s varied projects. We will then begin a
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The OpenStack Cookbook needs you! As you may or may not have heard, Kevin Jackson and I are updating his ever popular but Essex based OpenStack Cookbook to Grizzly. This also means we’re including things like Cinder, “The project formerly known as Quantum”, as well as some major updates to monitoring and identity services. We’re
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When OpenStack is deployed, it can grow to be quite complex and have any number of service interdependencies which makes monitoring it difficult. The Mirantis blog does a much better job of describing this than I could. This series will cover installing and configuring Sensu & it’s respective checks to monitor your OpenStack installation. This
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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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