One of the projects discussed at the Kilo OpenStack design summit in Paris earlier this month is Ironic. Ironic is a program that seeks to deploy instances directly onto hardware, instead of as virtual machines. When we think of OpenStack, we tend to think of abstracting all the things, and the evolution of the hypervisor …
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One of the most important programs inside of OpenStack is Keystone, also know as the identity service. Anthony Chow, one of the contestants from Season 2 of Virtual Design Master and one of the participants of #vDM30in30 has a great writeup of how Keystone works at his blog. Keystone has two main roles inside of OpenStack and they are …
DevOps. DevOps. DevOps. We keep hearing this term over and over and over again, but really, what does it mean? Especially to those of us who aren’t currently Dev or Ops? Or are we? Let’s try to figure out what everyone is talking about. (The launch pad for your DevOps journey, take by me, at …
OpenStack is a platform that is constantly growing and evolving, thanks in part to the massive amount of involvement in it from the OpenSource community. There are currently OpenStack releases twice a year, which are closely followed by an OpenStack Summit. While the summit in Paris earlier this month showcased lots of enhancements which were in the Juno …
As part of #vDM30in30 Eric Wright wrote a great article on reducing technical debt, which got me thinking quite a bit. Mainly about automation, and the journey it takes to get there. Here’s a couple more ideas on how to get you started on the journey if you haven’t already begun. (Mission Control at NASA …
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 …