Myself and Kevin Jackson will be at the Hong Kong Summit this week and we brought books. Lots of them. Specifically, we will be at the Rackspace Booth every day from 1 – 2PM (or until the books run out) handing out copies of the OpenStack Cookbook and talking OpenStack, Cloud, Rackspace, etc. Come find
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Just a quick quick update before I’m stuck at VMworld for the week: Kevin Jackson is a ROCK STAR The long and short of that is the Manuscript for The OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook – Grizzly Edition is now 100% complete. He did this, largely without my support these last two months due to some
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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
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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
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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
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Well, honestly I’m not sure if shipping is the right word for an electronic book, but nevertheless, the electronic editions of vCO Book are now shipping. Kindle If you have it, drop a line, or link a picture & tell me what you think.
So this thing here happened. More importantly, the work I’ve been doing is now public: “Automating Day-to-Day Administration of VMware vSphere 5.x w/ vCenter Orchestrator” This hands-on technical guide to automating vSphere with Orchestrator teaches administrators how to save time and resources by automating their virtual infrastructure. Automation expert Cody Bunch teaches valuable practices and
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Amazon posted my 4 star review of Ed Haletky’s (@Texiwill) updated VMware ESX and ESXi in the Enterprise. Let me start with saying I’ve read the first edition of this book and Ed’s Security book and found both to be excellent. As this book was a second edition, I focused my reading on those updated
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Amazon just posted my 5 star review of VMware vSphere Design. The review: I received this book via Kindle loan for 14 days, of which I only needed about 12 to get through it. Mind, that is not because the content was light, far from it. It was because the book did the following things:
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