Keystone is one of the key components of any OpenStack deployment. In short, Keystone takes a look at everyone logging into the OpenStack cloud, and answers two very important questions: “Who are you?” and “What can you do?”. It is critical for Keystone to be deployed in a highly available manner in each OpenStack deployment, as …
Kilo
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 …
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 …
When we talk about our next generation data centers, and how we are going to run them, recently, many of our discussions have turned to policy. How do we want our applications to be deployed? What type of service levels do we want them to have? Which virtual machines or instances should be present on …