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 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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Brian Suhr joins the professionalvmware.com #vBrownBag to review sections 1 and 2 of the the VMware Certified Advanced Professional in Desktop Design blueprint. Recording Slides https://app.box.com/s/uyjvmp20rm6srv5mzngb You can find Brian on Twitter @bsuhr and his blog athttp://www.virtualizetips.com/ andhttp://www.datacenterzombie.com/. You can request a copy of the blueprint in the VMware MyLearn portal. Sign up for the live
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Great news, Rackspace has signed on to be the second sponsor for the #vBrownBag TechTalks at the OpenStack summit in Atlanta. We are delighted to have Rackspace on board as we are racing towards the summit. We already have 30 sessions proposed, and we plan to accept every session. Details of where to signup and
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It’s been a very rewarding week for the vBrownBag team. I’m happy to announce that it appears that the entire vBrownBag team has received the vExpert award for 2014. I have also noted that a high percentage of people who present and participate with the podcast have also been selected. Well done everyone! This recognition
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The #vBrownBag crew enjoys what we do and the impact you tell us we have on your professional development. As such, we’re continuously looking for new ways to serve the community. Today we’re excited to announce a new program and podcast as part of the #vBrownBag lineup, #vBrownBag Jr. This new program, a natural offspring
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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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Dear Virtualization Community, It is my profound pleasure to write this letter to you as tremendous thank you for your continued support. This week Eric Siebert of vSphere-Land.com revealed the results of his annual Top Blog vote. A subcategory of this vote is the top virtualization podcast. The vBrownBag crew, myself included, are extremely humbled
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In the first of 3 shows dedicated to the VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Desktop Design, Adam Eckerle reviews design considerations for pods and blocks, support infrastructure such as Active Directory, DNS and DHCP and also ThinApp. Video Slides You can find Adam on Twitter @eck79 and his blog at http://ecktech.me/ and request a copy of
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Hey, you guyyyys! 🙂 As you may be aware, a number of friends of the #vBrownBag podcast and friends within the overall virtualization community have written books for Packt Publishing. I recently found out that they’re celebrating their 2,000th title by offering a Buy One Get One Free deal. This is a limited time offer
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Starting on March 26th, we will have 3 shows to help you prepare for your VMware Certified Advanced Professional in Desktop Design (VCAP-DTD). The series will be broken into 3 sections to cover the various parts of the VCAP-DTD Blueprint. You can get up to speed on the blueprints and format of the exam thanks
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On the latest #vBrownBag Automate ALL the Things session, Joerg Lew gives a deep dive demo on some advanced features of VMware vCenter Orchestrator. Video You can find Joerg on Twitter @joerglew and his blog at http://www.vcoportal.de/ Sign up for the live ProfessionalVMware.com #vBrownBag broadcast at https://vbrownbag.comm/brownbags/ and follow some of our ongoing series such
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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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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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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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Every now and again I run into issues using Vagrant and VMware Fusion togther. Specifically around starting VMNET-DHCP servers. The following commands have done wonders to fix that in a pinch: sudo /Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmnet-cli –configure sudo /Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmnet-cli –stop sudo /Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmnet-cli –start
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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Alan Renouf from VMware demos new features of PowerCLI including a live demo for the Automate All The Things Series. Video You can find Alan on Twitter @alanrenouf and his blog at http://www.virtu-al.net/ Sign up for the live ProfessionalVMware.com #vBrownBag broadcast at https://vbrownbag.comm/brownbags/ and follow some of our ongoing series such as the Automate All
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