Openstack posts
Note: This one will feel a bit live-blogish as well. It being written in a hurry and such. Today’s keynotes had a bit of a different flavor than yesterdays. While there were still user use cases up front, they took a slightly different tone. Keynote themes: There were a few themes that cut across the
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Note: This is a live blog, no formatting, no editing, etc. Just a collection of notes. Problems: New business line, super growth, 10x in next few years Cost down, availability up vDesktop, massive config changes, from IE to Chrome with a redeploy Win => KVM => DevStack => 12.04 Thin Client => Switch => VDI
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If this rambles, I apologize. What follows next, are my impressions, thoughts, and notes from Day 1 of the November 2013 Design Summit in Hong Kong. Keynotes: The user storys this time around focused on Media, both big and small, along with Concur, the Expense reporting / management company. While not as huge as some
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Note: This is a live blog. It lacks formatting, editing, or any of the usual quality control that goes into these things. Bridging the Gap: Explaining OpenStack to the VMware Admin Speaking: Kenneth Hui – Open Cloud Architect, Rackspace Scott Lowe – Engineering Architect, VMware Architecture Different origins. vSphere to emulate infrastructure; OpenStack to provide
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Note: This is a liveblog. I didn’t proof read / spellcheck etc. An Evaluation of OpenStack Deployment Frameworks Symantec has a diverse set of development needs across product lines, etc. Consolidation of those systems OpenStack and other OSS building blocks Desire to submit patches back to the project, security fixes, etc. Tried 5 different tools,
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Myself and Kevin Jackson will be at the Hong Kong Summit this week and we brought books. Lots of them. Specifically, we will be at the Rackspace Booth every day from 1 – 2PM (or until the books run out) handing out copies of the OpenStack Cookbook and talking OpenStack, Cloud, Rackspace, etc. Come find
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It seems there is not an /etc/lsb-release (or /etc/redhat-release) for an OpenStack node. However, you can get the installed version in other ways. From a compute node, run the following commands: $ nova-manage shell python Python 2.7.3 (default, Sep 26 2013, 20:03:06) [GCC 4.6.3] on linux2 Type “help”, “copyright”, “credits” or “license” for more information.
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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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Rather than slides tonight, since the “lab” environment is chewing all the resources available on my box, we’ll load a few blog posts and use this as the “show notes” page. At a high level, the steps are: Make a Chef Server (or have one handy anyways) Download the relevant cookbooks (https://github.com/rcbops/chef-cookbooks) Create an “environment”
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Recently, Puppet Labs released an “Grizzly” module, based on their work with the Puppet Labs OpenStack module, that takes a more role based approach. That is, it breaks out things like controller, compute, and storage. It also combines them with Hiera in a much more elegant way than before. I covered using Puppet and Hiera
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This one is a bit outside our Couch to OpenStack series but touches on something that has been tickling the back of folks minds for a while. VMware has jumped into the OpenStack ecosystem. What does that mean? How does that work? OpenStack on vSphere This week we had on Scott Lowe from VMware to
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Part of the work around the upcoming OpenStack Cookbook involved a refresh of the chapter on Monitoring. Specifically, we wanted to deliver an updated section with some tool changes that would reflect the current state of things in terms of OpenStack monitoring. That said, after spending weeks and weeks exploring other options, we came back
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Thanks again for everyone coming along for the Nagios ride. To recap we: Reviewed the requirements for monitoring. Installation of the NPRE agent Other monitoring solutions, and why we chose Nagios Installation of Nagios How to monitor certain services How to quickly and easily install and configure dashboards Here are the resources from the show:
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Thanks again for everyone coming along last night. To recap we: Pushed Monitoring back a week. Discussed OpenStack logging Dug into various service log files Enabled additional logging Showed how to restart various services Discussed OpenStack as a complex system Thanks again to Eric Wright (@discoposse) and Trevor Roberts (@VMTrooper) for presenting and hosting respectively.
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Just a quick quick update before I’m stuck at VMworld for the week: Kevin Jackson is a ROCK STAR The long and short of that is the Manuscript for The OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook – Grizzly Edition is now 100% complete. He did this, largely without my support these last two months due to some
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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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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
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Seems my most successful posts so far are the Couch to OpenStack bits followed closely by the series of posts on Chef, Razor, and OpenStack. However, Chef isn’t the only way to get OpenStack installed. In fact, Puppet Labs have a set of manifests / modules that work quite well as well. This post will
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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
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When working with the Puppet modules for OpenStack, it turns out that if you’re working with Ubuntu 12.04, you need the Ubuntu Cloud Archive added in order for things to run smoothly. To do that, add the following bits for each node in your site.pp manifest: node /puppet-controller.puppet.lab/ { class { ‘openstack::repo::uca’: release => ‘grizzly’,
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