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#vBrownBag Follow-Up Deploying OpenStack using Ansible (OSAD) with Walter Bentley (@djstayflypro)

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Walter Bentley from Rackspace presents on how you can use Ansible to fully deploy OpenStack. Deploy OpenStack with Ansible Video You can find Walter on Twitter @djstayflypro, GitHub at wbentley15, and his blog hitchnyc.com Originally published at https://vbrownbag.comm – Sign up for the live #vBrownBag broadcast at https://vbrownbag.comm/brownbags/ where you can also get updates and view our past series
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#vBrownBag Google Cloud Platform – Kubernetes with Brian Dorsey (@briandorsey)

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Brian Dorsey is back for this episode on Kubernetes. Brian discusses containers and how the need arose for Kubernetes. Kubernetes Video You can follow Brian on Twitter @briandorsey Originally published at https://vbrownbag.comm – Sign up for the live #vBrownBag broadcast at https://vbrownbag.comm/brownbags/ where you can also get updates and view our past series such as the Automate All The
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#vBrownBag DevOps Follow-Up Provision VM’s in vCenter using Ansible w Jonathan Frappier (@jfrappier)

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#vBrownBag crew member Jonathan Frappier demos using Ansible to provision virtual machines to vCenter. Ansible supports creating, cloning, and reconfiguring virtual machines in vCenter. Example playbooks can be found at www.virtxpert.com & github. Note that this demo was done with Ansible 1.9 prior to its official release. Ansible & vCenter Video You can follow Jonathan on
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#vBrownBag vRealize Automation Custom Properties with Brian Ragazzi (@brianragazzi)

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Brian Ragazzi talks how you can use custom properties in VMware vRealize Automation vRealize Automation Custom Properties Video You can follow Brian on Twitter @brianragazzi and his blog http://brianragazzi.com/ where he blogs about vRealize Automation, vRealize Orchestrator, and many other VMware related topics. Originally published at https://vbrownbag.comm – Sign up for the live #vBrownBag broadcast at https://vbrownbag.comm/brownbags/ where you
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#vBrownBag Sharing and Managing vCO Workflows using FlowGrab with Kaido Kibin

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vRealize Orchestrator is one of the best kept secrets in VMware. It is the orchestration solution playing a central role in the vRealize and vCloud product family. Although it is very powerful, it is relatively unknown among the virtualization community. FlowGrab is a repository and collaboration tool for vRealize Orchestrator. During this session Kaido Kibin
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#vBrownBag DevOps Follow-Up Docker and Friends with Scott Lowe (@scott_lowe)

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Scott Lowe follows up on the Introduction to Docker by James Turnbull (@kartar http://bit.ly/vbbKartar) and shows how to use Docker on CoreOS, Docker with Heat used in OpenStack based cloud providers and wraps up using Docker on CoreOS with fleet. Docker Video You can follow Scott on Twitter @scott_lowe, and his blog http://blog.scottlowe.org/ where he
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#vBrownBag DevOps Follow-Up Setting up network services using Puppet with Rob Nelson (@rnelson0)

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Rob Nelson joins the #vBrownBag DevOps series to talk about his PuppetInABox project, a curated collection of forge modules and user repositories. This solution includes everything required to provide puppet, puppetdb, r10k, dns, dhcp, a yum repository, and a build server. The only thing you need to provide is a gateway device and you have
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#vBrownBag DevOps Follow-Up Continuous Integration using Jenkins with Mike Marseglia (@mmars)

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Mike Marseglia hops on the #vBrownBag DevOps series to kick start your continuous integration journey with an overview and demo of Jenkins. Continuous Integration with Jenkins Video You can find Mike on Twitter @mmars Originally published at https://vbrownbag.comm – Sign up for the live #vBrownBag broadcast at https://vbrownbag.comm/brownbags/ where you can also get updates and
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Basic Hardening Part 2: Using Heat Templates

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Remember the basic hardening we did? No? Well, go forth and read here. I’ll wait. … Done? Ok, so you are with us on the promise and premise of cloud and short lived application servers. Cattle all the things! You are also with me on the idea that even cattle need to be vaccinated from
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Basic Hardening with User Data / Cloud-Init

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The ‘cloud’ presents new and interesting issues around hardening an instance. If you buy into the cattle vs. puppies or cloudy application building mentality, your instances or VMs will be very short lived (Hours, Weeks, maybe Months). The internet however, doesn’t much care for how short lived the things are, and the attacks will begin
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OpenStack Heat Concepts, Architecture, and Workflow

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It’s not often (at least in the OpenStack world) that you get 70% done with a blog post explaining a thing and then find a resource that does it better than you could have. In this case, while it’s a bit dated, is a presentation from Mirantis on Heat, it’s Concepts, Architecture, and Workflow: An
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Autoscaling with Heat on Devstack

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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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OpenStack Heat Link-Dump

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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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My First OpenStack Heat Template

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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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