This week I’m at the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver, and I’ve been having a fantastic time. I’ve been to a ton of great sessions, and am presenting one on Thursday. I’ve also gotten to meet tons of people from the OpenStack community in person, which is always one of my favorite parts of conferences. Today I also …
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As many who are involved with OpenStack in some way, shape, or form know, the cadence for releases has been two a year since 2012. With the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver approaching in May, the Kilo release is imminent. OpenStack Kilo, is hitting some big milestones today before it is released on April 30th, a …
Ok, I’m just going to throw it out there. This post is noting more than shameless self promotion for OpenStack Summit voting. I’ve teamed up with Eric Wright, one of my Virtual Design Master partners in crime, to bring you number of topics which have a few central themes, mainly a few facets of OpenStack …
VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO) has arrived in the slew of February 2, 2015 announcements from VMware. It was initially announced at VMworld 2014, and has been something I’ve been following closely. One of the key parts of the strategy for any OpenStack cloud is how the software itself will be consumed. Will your organization use …
We’ve just entered 2015, and we’re working with OpenStack Juno, eagerly awaiting OpenStack Kilo, which will be out on April 30 of this year. The trendy thing would be to talk about how OpenStack has grown and evolved over the last year, 2014, but let’s dig a little deeper. Come with me into the OpenStack …
One of the most challenging tasks one can face is deploying an infrastructure from nothing. When we’re faced with a net new environment, we often don’t have the tools we’re used to, like VMware vCenter, or VMware Auto Deploy. Both of these tools have other dependancies, which require a working infrastructure. Sometimes, the answer may …