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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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Link dump! That is, I’ve been looking into OpenStack Heat quite a bit lately. That generally means I’ve got way too many browser tabs open at the moment and need to shut some down. Thus, here comes a huge list of OpenStack links and resources. Heat Websites http://docs.openstack.org/developer/heat/template_guide/openstack.html http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/heat-cloudopen-final.pdf http://zenodo.org/record/7571/files/CERN_openlab_report_Michelino.pdf http://www.slideshare.net/openstackindia/introduction-to-openstack-heat http://docs.openstack.org/developer/heat/template_guide/openstack.html http://docs.openstack.org/developer/heat/template_guide/hot_spec.html#hot-spec http://blog.oddbit.com/2013/12/06/an-introduction-to-openstack-heat/ http://www.sebastien-han.fr/blog/2013/09/06/openstack-heat-and-ceilometer-got-their-dashboard-panel/
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I’m delighted to welcome HP to the vBrownBag sponsor list. HP are the first sponsor to signup to support the vBrownBag TechTalks at the OpenStack Summit in Atlanta. The TechTalks are taking the place of the lightning talks that happened at previous summits. We are mainly adding recording/streaming as well as the structure. The aim
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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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At some point in my past, I may or may not have done some InfoSec. As part of that role, “foot printing” a target was a tedious task. Basically, you would try to find anything and everything you could about said target, without actually engaging. When you consider the number of datasources available (Google, gmane.org,
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Great news, the vBrownBag crew will be at the OpenStack Summit in Atlanta this May. We will be making TechTalks and generally helping people get the most out of the summit. If you’d like to present a TechTalk you can signup using this form here. Now that we are committed to being there we need
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I know I’ve done a few of these before, but Mr. Thorne does a much much better job than I could. In addition, he has builds for VMware Fusion and VirtualBox. Also, scenarios with HA controllers, Neutron, and more. Go here and deploy: http://thornelabs.net/2013/12/17/deploy-rackspace-private-cloud-entirely-within-a-vagrantfile-on-virtualbox-or-vmware-fusion.html After the first 30 or so minutes you will have a
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Well, perhaps not all of it. However, the following is extremely useful if you’re working with Raspberry Pi in any way. In my case, I’m using it in conjunction with the rPI / OpenStack work I’ve been doing (here and here). That is, I am using it to test changes to the packages / repositories
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The “What’s New in Havana?” session is a high-level review of some of the changes that came with the November 2013 release of OpenStack. Presented by Eric Wright (@Discoposse) with help from Cody Bunch and Kenneth Hui, the session covers the core projects and is appropriate for those familiar with, or just getting started with
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After having spent too much time down a rabbit hole that involved rebuilding at least one Pi, it seems the Grizzly and Havana OpenStack packages have not been ported to the Raspberry Pi. All is not lost however, it seems one can download the sources and recompile ALL THE THINGS or so. Here is a
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In part 1 we talked about the “Why” behind this project. In this, we start talking about the “How”. In this post, the “How” that we will cover, will get us from “Ok I have a rPI” to where we’re ready to install OpenStack. We’ll cover: What we’re building Getting an OS onto the rPI
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Recently I’ve embarked down a course to get OpenStack up and running on the Raspberry Pi. Before we get too deep into the particulars, let’s talk about why such a thing should be done. What could one gain by running OpenStack on the Pi? Who would use it? and more. For me, there are a
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If you're at the OpenStack summit, and missed your chance to pick up a copy of the OpenStack Cookbook from the Rackspace booth, all is not lost. You can still pick up a copy directly from Packt pub, and for the duration of the Summit, get an additional 20% off: Go here: http://www.packtpub.com/openstack-cloud-computing-cookbook-second-edition/book At checkout,
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Note: Live blog, blah blah, formatting, blah Disintermediated Hardware, that is, remove the middle layers between the application and the disk. Optimize the disk for object storage. “Why did you go down this particular path?” – Other approaches got us only part way. Let me ask you, “Why does swift use filesystems?” The world has
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Note: This is a liveblog, no edits. @Aethylred: R&D infrastructure highly variable and generates data at unpredictable rates. DevOps and #OpenStack allows researchers to control scaling. The DevOps session, Redmine for bugs, Chef/puppet, OpenLdap, svn & git, its a good OSS stack. Single portal, elastic cloud I think, for single pane for engineering, flexibility w/o
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Note: This is a live blog, I've not spent time editing, formatting, etc TaskFlow answers the “Statemanagement” issue. Workflows w/o state makes recovery an issue. Also reliablility can be an issue. Race conditions Manager <-> API Boundary undefined states Why does state matter? Reliability, consistency Upgrades, or recovering from the upgrades Easy to understand workflows
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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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