Here are these things in case I need to find them again: A link_to helper for Sinatrahttp://ididitmyway.herokuapp.com/past/2010/4/25/sinatra_helpers/ A flash[:something] gem for Sinatrahttps://github.com/SFEley/sinatra-flash OmniAuth for rails / rubyhttp://railsapps.github.io/tutorial-rails-mongoid-omniauth.html Twitter auth in Sinatrahttp://www.sitepoint.com/twitter-authentication-in-sinatra/
Another VMworld USA is over and we’re all slowly catching up on sleep. The vBrownBag Tech Talk videos are now up on YouTube, you can find links to all the videos either on the original schedule web page or on this YouTube playlist. Huge thanks go to the nearly forty community members who prepared and
-> Continue reading vBrownBag TechTalks posted on YouTube
This post is by Cody Bunch This is the sort of post where one would say something about being tired, sore feet, or having the “VMworld crud”. While I've had a bit of all of those things, this is not that post. This post could also drone on and on about how despite the oddball
-> Continue reading VMworld 2013 Wrap Up
The vBrownBag Team had a great time at VMworld 2013 with the live tech talks and with meeting many of our webcast attendees and listeners. The week before, though, a few of us actually attended another IT conference that happened in San Francisco: PuppetConf 2013. VMware’s vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS) is leveraging Puppet in its
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag at PuppetConf 2013: Nick Weaver Interview
On the 27th of August 2013 Andrea Mauro covered VCAP-CIA – Objective 3 Manage vCloud Director Resources on the EMEA vBrownbag. The recording from the webinar is below EMEA vBrownbag with Andrea Mauro covering VCAP5-CIA Objective 3 Manage vCloud Director Resources from EMEA vBrownbag on Vimeo.
VMworld is under way and so the #vBrownBag activities are also underway. Starting Monday we will have the TechTalks happening in the communities lounge, behind the escalators in Moscone South. The TechTalks are also available streaming online for those not attending in person and (when I sort that out) on YouTube so you can view
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag treasure hunt at VMworld USA 2013
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
-> Continue reading OpenStack Cookbook Update
Now that the manuscript for the OpenStack Cookbook has finished, or is in final edits all around, here are some of the books that I am either reading, or have in my backlog of things to read in the next few months. Reading List The Phoenix Project – Here – An interesting tale of IT
-> Continue reading Reading List – Late Summer / Early Fall 2013
Playing around with a few ideas for #vBrownBag tech talk voting, I was trying to deploy a ruby app with Puma and Ngnix. Here’s a number of the resources used: http://gerardmcgarry.com/blog/setting-a-virtual-host-nginx http://blog.andolasoft.com/2013/06/how-to-configure-rails-application-with-puma-and-ngnix-on-centos.html https://github.com/DruRly/reddit-in-sinatra http://www.drurly.com/blog/2012/06/30/build-reddit-in-sinatra-2/ http://www.drurly.com/blog/2013/06/09/sinatra-with-puma/ I also tied it in with Vagrant & the Rackspace provider. Depending on how things go, there will be a
-> Continue reading Some ngnix things
Packtpub has offered us a discount code for some books, two books about VMware View, or Horizon View as it’s now called. The vouchers are for a nice 30% discount on the two books and are valid until the 25th of October. Implementing VMware Horizon View 5.2 Voucher code MREIVHV30 Instant VMware View Virtualization How-to
-> Continue reading Discounts on VDI books
This post is by Cody Bunch. I’ve had a request or two recently on how to get started with VMware automation, what resources are there, and what tool should I use. This post aims to at least address two out of the three. That is, how to get started and what resources. Tool selection has
-> Continue reading Getting Started with VMware Automation
Doing some maintenance on my open-tabs, here is a dump of the OpenStack-ish things I’ve been looking at recently: http://my1.fr/blog/why-openstack-puppet-modules-did-not-have-vacation/ – Puppet Modules for OpenStack update http://www.blog.sandro-mathys.ch/2013/08/install-rdo-havana-2-on-fedora-19-and.html – RDO on Fedora 19 http://www.sebastien-han.fr/blog/2013/08/16/best-localrc-for-devstack/ – LocalRC settings for doing different DevStack things https://github.com/lorin/devstack-vm – Ansible & DevStack w/ Vagrant https://github.com/al3x/sovereign – Ansible Playbooks for OpenStack Private
-> Continue reading OpenStack Link Dump 8/21/2013
The next episode of the Couch to OpenStack Series will be an office hours session led by Eric Wright. It will be a good opportunity for new and existing podcast viewers to reflect on what we’ve covered up to this point. The goal is to clear up any questions that you may have on OpenStack.
-> Continue reading Couch to OpenStack Office Hours on August 20, 2013
Brian Suhr talks about some the requirements, and lessons learned as he works towards his VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX) Certification and wraps up with a Q&A. #vBrownBag Follow-up VCDX Journey with Brian Suhr (@bsuhr) from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.
The Tech Talks for VMworld USA 2013 have concluded and are now available on YouTube, click the session to open the video. Alternatively you can get all the videos on this Playlist
A few of the videos aren’t here yet, they will be here soon.
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Thanks everyone for coming along last night. To recap, we: Used git to clone the Couch to OpenStack repo Used Vagrant to stand up the ‘controller’, ‘compute’, ‘cinder’, and ‘quantum’ VMs Used the Vagrant shell provisioner to install Ubuntu Grizzly repos MySQL KeyStone Glance Nova Cinder Quantum Setup .stackrc with environment variables Discussed the OpenStack
-> Continue reading Couch to OpenStack – Quantum Follow-Up
On the 13th of August 2013 Seb Hakiel and Grant Friend covered pain point and lessons learnt from a 4000 seat VDI deployment. The recording form the webinar is below EMEA vBrownbag with Seb Hakiel and Grant Friend 4k seat VDI deployment from EMEA vBrownbag on Vimeo.
Joey Ware gives an overview of how University of Oklahoma’s Shared Services group is using a stretched cluster for their private cloud utilizing state fiber for sub 5ms speeds. #vBrownBag Follow-up Stretched Cluster Deployment with Joey Ware (@joey_vm_ware) from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.
I wrote a few weeks ago about Infinio and their NFS acceleration product for NFS datastores on vSphere. Since then I realised that one of the clients I’m working at is an ideal candidate for the product. The customer has an aged VDI environment containing some old ESXi hosts and backed by an old low spec NetApp array. The performance of the VDI desktops is limited by the amount of RAM in the ESXi servers and the speed of the storage.
Joe Onisick goes over what defines a SDN, what the features you can expect to find from a SDN, the components of SDN and why you want SDN. #vBrownBag Follow-up Software Defined Networking SDN with Joe Onisick (@jonisick) from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.