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Last night Mr. VMTrooper himself (@VMTrooper) walked us through the basics of Vagrant. That is, we started with nothing, installed Vagrant and VirtualBox. From there we spun up the first VM. Then we delved into some of the various provisioners, scripts, and more advanced multi-vm vagrant environments. If you are following along and get stuck,
-> Continue reading Couch to OpenStack – Vagrant Primer Follow-up
Consider this the official announcement and 48 hour warning for those that want to dive head first into OpenStack. If don’t know about the program, or want to sign up, check here. Couch to OpenStack Materials Needed for Day 1 git (http://github.com/) vagrant (http://vagrantup.com) Internets (3 to 4 acres of internet will be fine) VirtualBox
-> Continue reading Pre-Work: Couch to OpenStack #vBrownBag
In the theme of Couch to 5k which is more or less a getting started with getting fit, I’ll be kicking off July 2013 with a “Couch to OpenStack” series of blog posts and podcasts. We’ll begin at the beginning with a quick overview of OpenStack and it’s varied projects. We will then begin a
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag Podcast – Couch to OpenStack!
Sorry for the delay on some of these, it’s been an interesting few weeks. Here are the last bunch of #vBrownBag Podcast’s: Videos Puppet, DevOps, OpenStack, etc. 2013-05-28 20.04 #vBrownBag OpenStack – Puppet Labs, Config Management, DevOps, OpenStack from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. OpenStack Monitoring with Sensu 2013-05-28 20.04 #vBrownBag Sack Lunch – OpenStack Monitoring (Sensu)
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag Podcast Follow-ups
The OpenStack Cookbook needs you! As you may or may not have heard, Kevin Jackson and I are updating his ever popular but Essex based OpenStack Cookbook to Grizzly. This also means we’re including things like Cinder, “The project formerly known as Quantum”, as well as some major updates to monitoring and identity services. We’re
-> Continue reading We Need Reviewers!
When OpenStack is deployed, it can grow to be quite complex and have any number of service interdependencies which makes monitoring it difficult. The Mirantis blog does a much better job of describing this than I could. This series will cover installing and configuring Sensu & it’s respective checks to monitor your OpenStack installation. This
-> Continue reading OpenStack Monitoring – Part 1 Installing Sensu
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
-> Continue reading Chef, Razor, OpenStack – Part 3
OpenStack GhettoSAN on Raspberry Pi “GhettoSAN” originally started out back when I wore a VMware hat more consistently and was a project born to answer: “I have 400,000 USB keys from a trade show, now what”. At first we ran Nexenta as a storage platform and while that ran well, however as it scaled up,
-> Continue reading OpenStack Swift, Raspberry Pi, 23 USB Keys – aka GhettoSAN v2
Video #vBrownBag OpenStack – Hands on with OpenStack Networking and Cinder from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.
Video #vBrownBag OpenStack – Opscode Chef, Matt Ray, DevOps and the state of OpenStack from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. Links http://www.amazon.com/Chef-Definitive-Guide-Stephen-Nelson-Smith/dp/1449327443/ http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Installing%20Omnibus%20Chef%20Client%20on%20Linux%20and%20Mac http://www.amazon.com/Instant-Chef-Starter-John-Ewart/dp/1782163468/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1368569194&sr=8-1&keywords=chef https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/IRC http://www.slideshare.net/mattray/chef-for-openstack-grizzly-roadmap http://www.opscode.com/blog/2012/06/27/chef-for-openstack/ http://docs.opscode.com/ https://learnchef.opscode.com/ http://chefconf.opscode.com/ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ74G2gKXdpwZkXEsclzcrA Stupid Youtube paste thing is broken, here’s the link https://github.com/mattray http://www.slideshare.net/mattray http://community.opscode.com/users/mray http://www.slideshare.net/mattray/chef-and-openstack-workshop-from-chefconf-2013 Chef resources: https://learnchef.opscode.com/ https://docs.opscode.com Omnibus: https://github.com/opscode/omnibus-ruby https://twitter.com/RubyLeaders/status/334329015022284800 #openstack-chef on irc.freenode.net groups.google.com/group/opscode-chef-openstack @chefopenstack StackForge https://github.com/stackforge/cookbook-openstack-common/
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag – Chef & OpenStack
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
-> Continue reading Chef, Razor, OpenStack – Part 2
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
-> Continue reading Chef, Razor, OpenStack – Part 1
A while back I met with Kevin Jackson (http://uksysadmin.wordpress.com/, @itarchitectkev) and gently (or not so gently) nudged him into updating the existing OpenStack Cookbook to Girzzly. As part of this we wanted to introduce new content (Quantum, Cinder, Automated / DevOps installations) etc. Because I pushed, I also inadvertently ended up under the bus for
-> Continue reading OpenStack Cookbook Update
This session is being led by Ferran Rodenas of VMware and Dekel Tankel of Cloud Foundry They’ll be working us through a deep dive into CF and CF-Bosh on OpenStack as well as the integration work they’ve done for CF and OpenStack. Cloud Foundry has moved to Pivotal, a joint effort outside VMware & EMC
-> Continue reading OpenStack Summit 13.04 Day 1: Cloud Foundry – Your PaaS on OpenStack
Here’s the link in case you missed it: http://openstackportland2013livestream.eventbrite.com/
With the latest Vagrant out, you can start to do some cool things, like use different back ends. However, what if some of your team uses Fusion while others use vBox, and then for production you need to deploy to some flavor of Cloud? For the most part, your vagrant file will be able to
-> Continue reading Multiple Provider Vagrant Files
Last night we had on a coworker of mine (as in sits less than 8 feet away) on to talk about the state of networking and what Quantum (and SDN) can bring to the table. Note: We had a screen resolution mismatch. With luck you’ll be able to see it better on the recording: 2013-03-26
-> Continue reading OpenStack #vBrownBag – Quantum and You
What can I say. It was a busy busy week, and I didn’t get this posted till now. Here it is, our podcast with some of the folks who wrote the OpenStack Operator Manual: 2013-03-19 20.02 #vBrownBag Sack Lunch – OpenStack Documentation from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.
Sorry about the last few weeks of last minute cancellations. I feel about like the dude in the picture above. That said, I do have at least the next three weeks lined up: Date Topic Who 3/19 OpenStack Ops OpenStack Ops 3/26 Open @rackerhacker 4/2 Quantum @mestery / @marktvoelker These will still be taking place
-> Continue reading OpenStack #vBrownBag Schedule
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
-> Continue reading Vagrant and Multi-Node Rackspace Private Cloud