OpenStack User Survey: November 2014
Now, when the OpenStack Summit Paris is officially over, and everyone of the ~5,000 participants are home and (hopefully) safe, the semi-annual user survey is released and there are some quite...
View ArticleGoing Native with OpenStack Centric Applications: Overview
Cloud infrastructure is useless without applications running atop, providing business servi ces and solving customer needs. So, as applications ascend to the throne as the rightful king of cloud...
View ArticleKeystone: Leveraging Existing Identity Sources
A great talk by Nathan Kinder on integrating existing identity management sources such as Active Directory and LDAP with Keystone. Keystone is the reference implementation of the Identity API in...
View ArticleWhy CoreOS just fired a Rocket at Docker
So basically what CoreOS are saying is that Docker is aiming to become a competitor in the Enterprise management space, so they are starting Rocket to undermine Docker’s most fundamental piece....
View Article2015 Red Hat Summit Call for proposals
The 2015 Red Hat Summit Call for proposals is now OPEN! Hoping to see you all there this year. 2015 Call for proposals Submit a session proposal for a chance to speak at the premier open source...
View ArticleDocker~Rocket Saga Continues: Docker Announces “DOCKER HUB ENTERPRISE”
As mentioned on my previous post[Why CoreOS just fired a Rocket at Docker] my take on CoreOS’s announcement of Rocket was because CoreOS felt threatened by Docker in the container management space,...
View ArticleBeautiful Infographics and other lies: OpenStack Juno Ecosystem
Some interesting random facts: eNovance was acquired by Red Hat in June. OpenStack Juno was released in October. Infographics, which was based on data from www.stackalytics.com, was released in...
View ArticleNova-Docker on OpenStack RDO Juno
As previously mentioned the Docker driver for Nova is currently out of Nova’s tree which means you won’t get it when installing OpenStack. This post discusses how to clone the out-of-tree Nova-Docker...
View ArticleFree Book: Getting Started with OpenShift
With this concise eBook you’ll learn the steps necessary to build, deploy, and host a complete real-world application on OpenShift, without having to read long, detailed explanations of the...
View ArticleTips to Improve Organizations Contributing To OpenStack
A great talk by Stefano Maffulli from the OpenStack foundation with some good advice if you want your contributions to be accepted more quickly and smoothly. If you ever experienced some of these pain...
View ArticleOpenStack APIs Are For Cloud Admins, Not Developers
VMware explains that they are responding to customer “demand for powerful OpenStack APIs to their developers” with their OpenStack product. In other words, what OpenStack provides is a nice set of...
View ArticleCeilometer Architecture
Ceilometer Architecture The following figure describes the main components of the Ceilometer sub-system. Let’s briefly review the components from left to right. The compute agent runs on each compute...
View ArticleOpenStack Horizon: Looking Ahead to Kilo
Horizon Program Technical Lead, David Lyle, provided in a recent Webcast and a blog post a pretty good summery on what’s coming up in Kilo release for Horizon. Support for Ironic Horizon will support...
View ArticleDocker 1.5 is out: Includes IPV6, Read-Only, Stats, “Named Dockerfiles”
IPv6 support Contributed by: Malte Janduda – Link to PR You can now allocate an ipv6 address to each container with the new ‘–ipv6’ flag. You can resolve ipv6 addresses from within a container. You...
View ArticleBuilding Custom Dashboards in OpenStack Horizon
I’ve been planning to write a post on how to create custom dashboards to Horizon, since I ran into this really great post by Keith Tenzer on the topics, I’ll probably refocus the upcoming post on how...
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