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Razor – The Next Iteration

Posted on January 22, 2014 by Cody Bunch

Over the past bunch of months, the Razor project has been evolving, going through some changes and the like. I have not been as close to it as I would like. However, one of my fellow Rackers has and has put together a number of really good write-ups: http://anystacker.com/2014/01/new-razor-server-vs-old-razor-and-what-does-the-rewrite-mean-to-you/ http://anystacker.com/2014/01/vagrant-up-razor-server/ http://anystacker.com/2014/01/razor-server-chef-broker/ https://github.com/eglute/razor-server-vagrant The first one
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Chef, Razor, OpenStack – Part 3

Posted on May 22, 2013 by Cody Bunch

Ok, we’re now really deep into things. Because I’ve been a few weeks in getting this post out there, and because the material is deep in places, you may want to review: Part 1 – Installing Chef and importing cookbooks. Part 2 – Using Chef to bootstrap Razor Back with us? Ok! So, our current state
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Chef, Razor, OpenStack – Part 2

Posted on May 12, 2013 by Cody Bunch

In the last post we talked about what it is we are building as well as built the Chef Server that will service the remainder of the environment. As before, this work is being done in conjunction with the upcoming updated release of the OpenStack Cookbook with Kevin Jackson. In this part we will cover
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Chef, Razor, OpenStack – Part 1

Posted on May 3, 2013 by Cody Bunch

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
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[Razor] Suddenly, A Chef Broker

Posted on November 18, 2012 by Cody Bunch

Which is a good thing, mind. A good friend of mine, the “Any Stacker” (blog, twitter) has been working on and has a functioning prototype for a Chef Broker in Razor (github link). As it gets a bit more functional, I’ll put together some videos on usage and the like. However, it looks like my
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Homelab Rebuild – Part 2 “Process”

Posted on November 4, 2012 by Cody Bunch

There are a large number of ways you can go down the path of getting OpenStack and it’s components installed. For my lab I chose to get familiar with a few new technologies along the way, as well as have some of these steps be something that can be extracted back into a production environment.
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Living with Razor Part 2

Posted on November 2, 2012 by Cody Bunch

Spent last few weeks neck deep in Razor, and actually made my first pull request. Here are some other handy things for working with Razor daily. Most of these are handy for working with a larger number of nodes/policies/active models… as well, things get unwieldy past the first 10-15 nodes. Some of these will likely
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Working With Razor

Posted on October 29, 2012 by Cody Bunch

First, some background on Razor: http://nickapedia.com/2012/05/21/lex-parsimoniae-cloud-provisioning-with-a-razor/ http://purevirtual.eu/2012/07/02/how-to-get-started-with-razor-and-puppet-part-1/ http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2012/05/how-to-deploy-esxi-5-using-razor-puppet.html Take the time to read those over, install it, work with it a bit in VMs or so, as this takes off with the assumption that you already have a working Razor installation. 1) Rebuilding the razor.ipxe file:razor config ipxe > /var/lib/tftpboot/razor.ipxe 2) Alternative DNSMASQ for chain
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