Openstack posts
At some point in the last few weeks, Rackspace released an update to their OpenStack Private Cloud distro. This time around setting it up is straight forward, a line or two of copy & paste bash script. However, being as lazy as I am, I wanted to be able to build a cluster of these
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After our first two successful podcasts with Mike Metral (@mikemetral) we are continuing the series and diving into some more hands on driven OpenStack with Wayne Walls (@waynewalls) OpenStack #vBrownBag Podcast Details: Date/Time: Tuesday, 8PM CSTRegister: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/760886393 If you are interested in presenting, please drop a line.
At the suggestion of someone in the office that I look into using Vagrant in conjunction with a project, I started digging… and digging. Here are some links: http://docs.vagrantup.com/v1/docs/provisioners/shell.html http://docs.vagrantup.com/v1/docs/multivm.html http://docs.vagrantup.com/v1/docs/getting-started/ports.html http://blog.codenut.org/?p=91 http://www.bluebox.net/about/blog/2013/01/provisioning-with-razor-and-chef-an-interactive-demo/ Now, those links, and likely a number I’ve closed and lost, along with some of these for Chef: http://www.opscode.com/chef/install/ http://docs.opscode.com/knife.html http://docs.opscode.com/config_rb_client.html https://github.com/rcbops/chef-cookbooks
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Video: #vBrownBag – Sack Lunch #1 – OpenStack with @mikemetral from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. Notes: [Corrected] At 23 minutes Mike states Quantum was not a core project in Folsom, this is incorrect, and Quantum is indeed a core project. He meant to say that it’s not a core requirement of OpenStack yet and has not
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I heard you liked Cloud, so we put some cloud in your cloud… well, you get where that is going. Basically, nesting OpenStack inside OpenStack has some interesting use cases for development. That is, if you are running DevStack on the Rackspace OpenCloud, or if your project is a bit more sensitive and you are
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A bit different than the last time around where all manner of things needed to be adjusted to use the Rackspace Private Cloud Dsitro. Specifically, to get going, you need to follow these steps: Download the distro form here. While that take’s it’s sweet time, spend a moment to look over the getting started guides.
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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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Design in quotes, because, like all good plans, it’s only good until I start laying the bits down. So far: Gear My old VMware lab comprised a number of things: 3x “Baby Dragon” compute nodes 1x Open Compute Gen1 Intel (dual hexcore, 48GB) 1x Iomega ix4-200d 1x “FrankenStor” Nexenta box After the transition, I hope
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As part of my transition at work from VMware related technologies into the wonderful OpenSource world of OpenStack, over the next few days and weeks I’ll be tearing down quite the extensive VMware lab, and rebuilding with OpenStack. I’ll keep you posted on the progress.
Talk about a breakneck week. The sessions are not just packed with people, but also with information. Rather than give you a long bullet list of the keynotes, the folks on the OpenStack blog did a pretty good job summarizing that here. Also, you really need to watch the Troy Toman keynote: I also managed
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In short, I didn’t get to much other than the Keynote(s) today. Was doing some last minute prep for a 4:30p session today (Wednesday). Keynote Summary: Live streaming is available on openstack.org This is the largest summit yet, 1400 folks in attendance. Quite a few last minute, so, logistics on day 1 were a bit
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Quick Summary of Monday at the OpenStack Summit. First, the important things: The conference bag was quite nice, and quite thoughtful. A carry on sized duffel bag. Mostly, this will be filled with t-shirts and non computer things for the trip back home. I got in late, so didn’t get to as many sessions as
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Just prior to shutting down my laptop for the final bit of pre-flight packing, I thought I’d point out a few of the sessions I plan to be at in the coming week at the OpenStack summit: Monday: Real-time Node Monitoring Hybrid Clouds w/ Cloud Foundry Quantum API Improvements Incremental Imaging / Database in the
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Having too many browser tabs open sucks, so here is a list of things that I have found interesting or useful, OpenStack related in the last week or so: Live Migration: http://blogs.citrix.com/2012/09/11/demo-live-migration-without-shared-storage-using-xenserver-and-openstack/ From IBM on Quantum: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/e93514d3-c4f0-4aa0-8844-497f370090f5/entry/quantum_folsom12?lang=en OpenFlow, OpenSwitch, OpenStack: http://my1.fr/blog/running-an-openflow-network-with-openstack-quantum-floodlight/ What’s new in Folsom: http://my1.fr/blog/whats-new-in-openstack-folsom/ Quantum Plug-ins: http://www.sebastien-han.fr/blog/2012/09/28/quantum-plugin-comparison/ Swift in Folsom: http://swiftstack.com/blog/2012/09/27/top-three-swift-features-in-openstack-folsom/ Folsom Architecture:
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Having spent the last few days in Chef training, I needed to get a few notes out here. Concepts Framework to solve business problems Infrastructure as code programmatically describe and manage infrastructure version controlled infrastructure simplified rebuilds Say what to change/configure, not how. Relationships This diagram is taken from the Opscode wiki and explains how
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Spotted this in @scott_lowe’s twitter feed: Good presentation by @MirantisIT on #OpenStack architecture and information flow: slideshare.net/mirantis/opens… (via @aarondelp) Presentation is here. Long, but worth it: OpenStack in Action from Mirantis
In playing around with the OpenStack Private Cloud distro (here), it comes with two Linux distributions by default. However, having come from a Windows background, I needed to get that going. In order to do that, I first had to convert one of my existing Windows images to a KVM format, that is what follows:
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While news links are insanely easy to find around OpenStack these days, the technical content is not quite as easy. I’m not going to try to come up with say a top 25 OpenStack bloggers list. Rather, I’m going to dump a bunch of links from sites that I now follow that call out interesting
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First Post! Now, with that out of my system, I’ve found that running the just published OpenStack Private Cloud on bare metal to be a bit out of reach for my homelab. That said, I did find that it runs exceedingly well as a nested hypervisor on ESXi (use the tools I’ve got) and all.
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