Category: orchestration

Episode Followup – What is OpenShift and what does it have to do with Kubernetes?

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Tonight will be talking with Diamond Jorsling (@EngineeredCurlz) covering OpenShift; what it is, why it is awesome, and how it compares to vanilla Kubernetes. Diamond is an SRE who focuses on DevSecOps. She works with all things RedHat, AWS, CI/CD, and Containers. She currently works with Microsoft focusing on RedHat Openshift. She provides an overview
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Basic Hardening Part 2: Using Heat Templates

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Remember the basic hardening we did? No? Well, go forth and read here. I’ll wait. … Done? Ok, so you are with us on the promise and premise of cloud and short lived application servers. Cattle all the things! You are also with me on the idea that even cattle need to be vaccinated from
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OpenStack Heat Concepts, Architecture, and Workflow

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It’s not often (at least in the OpenStack world) that you get 70% done with a blog post explaining a thing and then find a resource that does it better than you could have. In this case, while it’s a bit dated, is a presentation from Mirantis on Heat, it’s Concepts, Architecture, and Workflow: An
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Autoscaling with Heat on Devstack

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Autoscaling is one of the more interesting (and outstanding) features of OpenStack Heat. In this post, you’ll build a Devstack environment in a VM with Heat, Neutron, and Ceilometer. This will enable you to run the Autoscaling examples.   Getting Started To get started, copy the following into a Vagrantfile and vagrant-up. This generally takes
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My First OpenStack Heat Template

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If you have followed some of my past work, you know I have a thing for automation and orchestration. Needless, I was super excited when I discovered OpenStack Orchestration (aka Heat). Don’t know what Heat is? The OpenStack Wiki page has a great explanation: Heat is the main project in the OpenStack Orchestration program. It
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