Having spent the last few days in Chef training, I needed to get a few notes out here. Concepts Framework to solve business problems Infrastructure as code programmatically describe and manage infrastructure version controlled infrastructure simplified rebuilds Say what to change/configure, not how. Relationships This diagram is taken from the Opscode wiki and explains how
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We were originally planning on taking a month off. However, we’re quite energized coming off from VMworld US, have a good amount of content (security month, VCP-IAAS, and “Sack Lunches” (more on that some other time (nested parens FTW))), that we just needed to keep going. Here’s the details for the new series: #vBrownBag VCP-IAAS
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Couldn’t make it to the show, but still wanted the #vBrownBag USB Key of awesomeness? Click the Big Green Arrow to pull down the file. Warning: it’s nearly 4GB in size. It will take a while to download. In that file, is everything that was on the USB keys. Update: This needs an MD5 check
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Spotted this in @scott_lowe’s twitter feed: Good presentation by @MirantisIT on #OpenStack architecture and information flow: slideshare.net/mirantis/opens… (via @aarondelp) Presentation is here. Long, but worth it: OpenStack in Action from Mirantis
Having stumbled on the new /etc/resolv.conf methods of Ubuntu 12.04 a number of times, I hope this is useful for you as well. The contents of /etc/resolv.conf in Ubuntu are now controlled by “dns-nameservers #.#.#.#” in your /etc/network/interfaces file, like this: # The primary network interfaceauto eth0iface eth0 inet static address 10.0.191.100 netmask 255.255.255.0 network
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Having stumbled on the new /etc/resolv.conf methods of Ubuntu 12.04 a number of times, I hope this is useful for you as well. The contents of /etc/resolv.conf in Ubuntu are now controlled by “dns-nameservers #.#.#.#” in your /etc/network/interfaces file, like this: # The primary network interfaceauto eth0iface eth0 inet static address 10.0.191.100 netmask 255.255.255.0 network
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This one is a bit text heavy, and is in advance of some of my upcoming VMUG visits. It should hopefully cover some content that one cannot fit into an hour session, that is demo heavy on Orchestrator. Process is Good Do you have an “operations manual”? One of those big dusty D ring binders,
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There are going to be plenty of posts around all of the various parties and announcements that happened at the show. Rather than go down that typical path, I’ll just highlight a few of my personal favorite moments of the week: Everything related to the vBrownBags – Assembly, Distribution, #NotSupported, and Live Streaming, and most
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Today was quite the eventful day, what with arriving and having “interesting” travel arrangements. There was some pretty amazing things that happened. More specifically: I found these guys: You can to, we’ll generally be wearing these: and these things: And packed them here for transport. Find us tomorrow in the communities lounge / hang space
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Last night, around 8 or 10pm CST, not really sure… I saw a tweet come up from a vExpert and friend Dave Hill: It led to this little bit of text here: I need your help For anyone who follows my blog, or twitter you probably know that I recently had major surgery on my
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So, @cxi had said… “Pics or it didn’t happen”. Only pics I have right now are of the USB keys of awesomeness: Excited? Me too!
It’s Alastair here again, one of the many cool things that is going on in the community area of VMworld next week is Randy Keener’s Unsupported sessions. These are a forum to advance the community’s knowledge of how do do things that VMware never thought you’d want to do with their products. The sessions run
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First, before we go into what is in this thing… we need to thank some folks for making this happen. In no particular order, our “premium”, “platinum”, or “company that is really awesome you should check out their booth!” folks: TrainSignal Veeam TinTri Cisco Without their support, there would be no #vBrownBags, let alone swag
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In playing around with the OpenStack Private Cloud distro (here), it comes with two Linux distributions by default. However, having come from a Windows background, I needed to get that going. In order to do that, I first had to convert one of my existing Windows images to a KVM format, that is what follows:
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Here is a quick summary of the activities and places you’ll be able to find the #vBrownBag folks at VMworld: Tech Talks Powered by the #vBrownBags All week at the show, the #vBrownBags will be rocking out Tech Talks in the Communities / Bloggers lounge. For an idea of how awesome this will be, take
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While news links are insanely easy to find around OpenStack these days, the technical content is not quite as easy. I’m not going to try to come up with say a top 25 OpenStack bloggers list. Rather, I’m going to dump a bunch of links from sites that I now follow that call out interesting
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First Post! Now, with that out of my system, I’ve found that running the just published OpenStack Private Cloud on bare metal to be a bit out of reach for my homelab. That said, I did find that it runs exceedingly well as a nested hypervisor on ESXi (use the tools I’ve got) and all.
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Just a quick heads up, that the US #vBrownBags are taking a pre-VMworld break to prepare for the show. That said, the APAC show still goes on, at least night his week, with a show tomorrow. More here
Alastair Cooke just released AutoLab v1.0 to production, and I wanted to talk a bit about the automation that went into the vCloud Director portion of the AutoLab. Before I get started, I’d like to point out a quote that’s attributed to Sir Isaac Newton, “If I have seen further, it is by standing on
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Hello everyone – my name is Damian Karlson, and I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be blogging a bit on professionalvmware.com as time allows. You may (or may not) know me from the #vBrownBag US podcast, of which I am pleased to be a sometimes-host and a occasional presenter. Perhaps you know me from Twitter
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