Category: Tech

This guest post is by Melissa Palmer who blogs at vmiss.net, where you can find her back catalogue of posts. Melissa was the creative (evil) genius behind the scenarios for the Virtual Design Master Challenge. Find out more about the guest blogger program here.

I first delved into the world of OpenStack about a year ago.  I had heard it thrown around in meetings, and started seeing a fair bit about it on twitter.  As I did more research I found out it began in 2010 as a research project between Rackspace and NASA.  Which of course, only intrigued me further, since I’m a huge space nerd.  I’ve also heard it come up in discussion more often than not in the last year or so.

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We have only one month to go until the OpenStack Summit in Paris.

Below is the schedule of TechTalks at the summit, as you will see the three days of TechTalks is absolutely packed. We will be in room 126/127 of the Palais De Congres for the three days of the Main Conference. There will be people presenting all the time, so drop by and watch live.

We do still have spaces for more sponsors, contact alastair@vbrownbag.com for details.

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We had an awesome time at the Atlanta summit, met a heap of new people and made a pile of great video. If you haven’t already checked it out this page has session titles with links to the video or the whole YouTube playlist is here. Since Atlanta was so great we are going to
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We had an awesome time at the Atlanta summit, met a heap of new people and made a pile of great video. If you haven’t already checked it out this page has session titles with links to the video or the whole YouTube playlist is here. Sign up for your tech talk here. Since Atlanta
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tl;dr Download our OSCON lab materials here. As a follow-up on my coming to OSCON, I thought it prudent to provide some info & downloads for the lab ahead of time. Lab Materials While we will have USB keys in the tutorial for everyone, we figure some of y’all might want to get started early.
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For those that didn’t get the messge on the twitters, I will be at OSCON this year. Specifically, I will be helping Egle run a “Getting Started with OpenStack” tutorial. The tutorial will begin with an overview of OpenStack and its different components. We will then provide access to the individual OpenStack instances to the
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If you’ve been following along, we installed OpenLDAP here, that or you have one of your own going. Either way, the goal of this post, is to pull information out of OpenStack Keystone for import into OpenLDAP. Preparing us to transition Keystone backend over to LDAP. Getting started To get started, we’ll assume a working
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We had a great week in Atlanta last week making TechTalk videos at the OpenStack summit. You can checkout all the videos on this YouTube playlist. It was great to hang out with Josh and Damian, my long time #vBrownBag brothers. Also to do some real duties with Jeramiah who joined the crew this year.
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With the Juno summit underway, it means that OpenStack IceHouse shipped recently. As you may know, I worked with Mr Kevin Jackson (here) on the second OpenStack Cookbook which was a Grizzly release. Mind, books take a /long/ time to update, so we decided against re-releasing for IceHouse. That said, the examples in the book,
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