https://ronaldbradford.com/categories/cloud-computing/ Recent content in Cloud Computing on Enterprise Data Architect | Principal Data Strategist | MySQL Subject Matter Expert | Author | Speaker Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Tue, 02 Jan 2024 16:57:08 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/announcing-instancehunt-2024-01-02/ Tue, 02 Jan 2024 16:57:08 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/announcing-instancehunt-2024-01-02/ InstanceHunt identifies the instance (families/types/classes) available for a cloud service across all the regions of that cloud. The initial version is a working example of several AWS database services. Future releases will enable advanced filtering and will cover other service categories (e. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/select-1-2022-04-01/ Fri, 01 Apr 2022 21:24:43 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/select-1-2022-04-01/ If you have worked with an RDBMS for some time, you will likely have come across the statement SELECT 1. However, rarely is it correctly explained to engineers what the origin of SELECT 1 is, and why it’s useless and wasteful? https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/a-qldb-cheat-sheet-for-mysql-users-2021-05-13/ Thu, 13 May 2021 16:00:31 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/a-qldb-cheat-sheet-for-mysql-users-2021-05-13/ The AWS ledger database (QLDB) is an auditors best friend and lives up to the stated description of “Amazon QLDB can be used to track each and every application data change and maintains a complete and verifiable history of changes over time. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/understanding-aws-rds-aurora-capabilities-2021-05-13/ Thu, 13 May 2021 16:00:27 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/understanding-aws-rds-aurora-capabilities-2021-05-13/ The RDS Aurora MySQL/PostgreSQL capabilities of AWS extend the High Availability (HA) capabilities of RDS read replicas and Multi-AZ. In this presentation I discuss the different capabilities and HA configurations with RDS Aurora including: https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/upcoming-percona-live-2021-presentations-2021-04-23/ Fri, 23 Apr 2021 14:35:08 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/upcoming-percona-live-2021-presentations-2021-04-23/ I am pleased to have been selected to present at Percona Live 2021 May 12-13. My presentations include talks on AWS RDS Aurora and QLDB managed services. Understanding AWS RDS Aurora Capabilities The RDS Aurora MySQL/PostgreSQL capabilities of AWS extend the HA capabilities of RDS read replicas and Multi-AZ. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/wdiltw-aws-rds-proxy-2021-02-05/ Sat, 06 Feb 2021 03:26:56 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/wdiltw-aws-rds-proxy-2021-02-05/ This week I was evaluating AWS RDS Proxy . If you are familiar with the Relational Database Service (RDS) and use MySQL or Postgres, this is an additional option to consider. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/enforcing-a-least-privileged-security-model-can-be-hard-2020-09-12/ Sat, 12 Sep 2020 22:01:52 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/enforcing-a-least-privileged-security-model-can-be-hard-2020-09-12/ In a greenfield environment you generally have the luxury to right any wrongs of any past tech debt. It can be more difficult to apply this to an existing environment? For example, my setup is configured to just work with the AWS CLI and various litmus tests to validate that. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/introducing-the-mysql-cloud-service-2016-09-23/ Fri, 23 Sep 2016 14:14:38 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/introducing-the-mysql-cloud-service-2016-09-23/ The MySQL keynote at Oracle Open World 2016 announced the immediate availability of the MySQL Cloud Service, part of the larger Oracle Cloud offering. You can evaluate this now with a trial copy at cloud. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/utilizing-openstack-trove-dbaas-for-deployment-management-2016-06-14/ Tue, 14 Jun 2016 18:18:18 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/utilizing-openstack-trove-dbaas-for-deployment-management-2016-06-14/ Trove is used for self service provisioning and lifecycle management for relational and non-relational databases in an OpenStack cloud. Trove provides a RESTful API interface that is same regardless of the type of database. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/understanding-the-dbaas-capability-for-your-organization-2016-06-03/ Fri, 03 Jun 2016 19:53:32 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/understanding-the-dbaas-capability-for-your-organization-2016-06-03/ As your organization transforms to embrace the wealth of digital information that is becoming available, the capability to store, manage and consume this data in any given format or product becomes an increasing burden for operations. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/digital-transformation-strategies-2016-05-26/ Thu, 26 May 2016 14:21:30 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/digital-transformation-strategies-2016-05-26/ “The cosmos is complex, the cloud does not have to be”. This quote by Ben Amaba , Worldwide Executive at IBM Cloud, early in his presentation at the Performance without Limits 3. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/understanding-the-oslo-libraries-2016-05-24/ Tue, 24 May 2016 13:41:39 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/understanding-the-oslo-libraries-2016-05-24/ Underpinning all of the OpenStack projects including Nova, Cinder, Keystone, Glance, Horizon, Heat, Trove, Murano and others is a set of core common libraries that provide a consistent, highly tested and compatible feature set. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/are-you-running-kvm-or-qemu-launched-instances-2016-05-19/ Thu, 19 May 2016 20:21:28 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/are-you-running-kvm-or-qemu-launched-instances-2016-05-19/ A recent operators mailing list thread asked this question regarding the OpenStack user survey results of April 2016 (See page 39). As I verified my own local multi-node devstack dedicated H/W environment with varying commands, I initially came across the following error (which later was found to be misleading). https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/using-your-devstack-cloud-2016-04-05/ Tue, 05 Apr 2016 18:06:35 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/using-your-devstack-cloud-2016-04-05/ You have setup and installed devstack . Now what! The Horizon UI will allow you to administer your running cloud from a web interface. We are not going to discuss the web UI in this post. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/running-a-devstack-virtual-machine-with-limited-memory-2016-04-04/ Mon, 04 Apr 2016 15:50:07 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/running-a-devstack-virtual-machine-with-limited-memory-2016-04-04/ If you have a system with only 4GB of RAM, you need to assign at least 2.5GB (2560M) to a virtual machine to install devstack . Even with this limited RAM there are times the devstack installation will fail. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/downloading-and-installing-devstack-2016-04-02/ Sat, 02 Apr 2016 14:51:56 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/downloading-and-installing-devstack-2016-04-02/ The following instructions assume you have a running Linux virtual machine that can support the installation of devstack to demonstrate a simple working OpenStack cloud. For more information about the preparation needed for this step, see these pre-requisite instructions: https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/setting-up-ubuntu-using-vagrant-2016-04-01/ Fri, 01 Apr 2016 20:04:55 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/setting-up-ubuntu-using-vagrant-2016-04-01/ As discussed in Setting up an Ubuntu virtual machine using VirtualBox there are several other alternatives to defining an Ubuntu virtual machine. One of these alternatives is using Vagrant . https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/setting-up-centos-on-virtualbox-for-rdo-2016-04-01/ Fri, 01 Apr 2016 20:00:19 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/setting-up-centos-on-virtualbox-for-rdo-2016-04-01/ Create a CentOS Virtual Machine (VM) NOTE: There are several different ways in creating a base VM CentOS image. These steps are the more manual approach, however they are provided for completeness in understanding varying options. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/get-your-oslo-swag-in-austin-2016-03-31/ Thu, 31 Mar 2016 20:22:33 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/get-your-oslo-swag-in-austin-2016-03-31/ Hot of the press are our Oslo stickers for the Austin event. Be sure to track down an Oslo core, answer the magic question and add this to your conference swag. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/setting-up-ubuntu-on-virtualbox-for-devstack-2016-03-30/ Thu, 31 Mar 2016 00:58:06 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/setting-up-ubuntu-on-virtualbox-for-devstack-2016-03-30/ As discussed , devstack enables a software developer to run a standalone minimal OpenStack cloud on a virtual machine (VM). In this tutorial we are going to step through the installation of an Ubuntu VM using VirtualBox manually. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/virtualbox-networking-for-beginners-2016-03-30/ Wed, 30 Mar 2016 17:09:33 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/virtualbox-networking-for-beginners-2016-03-30/ When using VirtualBox for my OpenStack development I always configure two network adapters for ease of development. The first is a NAT adapter that enables the guest VM connectivity to the Internet via the host. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/installing-virtualbox-for-openstack-development-2016-03-30/ Wed, 30 Mar 2016 16:00:16 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/installing-virtualbox-for-openstack-development-2016-03-30/ Download VirtualBox for your operating system VirtualBox is an open source virtualization product that will allow you to create virtual machines on a computer using Linux, Mac OS X or Windows. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/installing-openstack-with-devstack-a-first-time-guide-2016-03-29/ Tue, 29 Mar 2016 14:42:21 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/installing-openstack-with-devstack-a-first-time-guide-2016-03-29/ This guide will enable the reader to install a minimal OpenStack cloud using devstack for the first time. This guide will assume you have never installed virtualization software, used or configured devstack or even observed a running OpenStack cloud. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/devstack-your-personal-openstack-cloud-2016-03-28/ Mon, 28 Mar 2016 22:21:09 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/devstack-your-personal-openstack-cloud-2016-03-28/ As a software developer or system architect that is interested in looking at the workings of OpenStack , devstack is one of several different ways to start a personal cloud using the current OpenStack code base . https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/what-is-openstack-2016-03-28/ Mon, 28 Mar 2016 22:00:53 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/what-is-openstack-2016-03-28/ OpenStack is a cloud computing software product that is the leading open source platform for creating cloud infrastructure. Used by hundreds of companies to run public, private and hybrid clouds, OpenStack is the second most popular open source project after the Linux Kernel . https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/retiring-an-openstack-project-2016-03-28/ Mon, 28 Mar 2016 21:00:43 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/retiring-an-openstack-project-2016-03-28/ As part of migrating Oslo Incubator code to graduated libraries I have come across several inactive OpenStack projects. (An inactivate project does not mean the project should be retired or removed). https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/oracle-openstack-leveraging-mysql-cluster-and-docker-2015-11-11/ Wed, 11 Nov 2015 23:04:25 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/oracle-openstack-leveraging-mysql-cluster-and-docker-2015-11-11/ At Oracle Openworld this year, Oracle OpenStack Release 2 was announced. This Kilo based distribution included some new deployment features not see in other OpenStack distros including the use of Kolla , Docker and MySQL Cluster . https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/deploying-ubuntu-openstack-kilo-2015-06-06/ Sat, 06 Jun 2015 17:52:20 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/deploying-ubuntu-openstack-kilo-2015-06-06/ My previous Ubuntu OpenStack setup has been using the Juno release. I received some installation problems for Kilo using the stable repo and so I switched to using the experimental repo. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/writing-and-testing-unit-tests-in-openstack-2015-06-05/ Fri, 05 Jun 2015 15:46:03 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/writing-and-testing-unit-tests-in-openstack-2015-06-05/ The following outlines an approach of identifying and improving unit tests in an OpenStack project. Obtain the source code You can obtain a copy of current source code for an OpenStack project at http://git. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/contributing-to-openstack-2015-06-03/ Wed, 03 Jun 2015 20:48:52 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/contributing-to-openstack-2015-06-03/ Following my first OpenStack Summit in Vancouver 4/2015 it was time to become involved with contributing to OpenStack. I have lurked around the mailing lists and several IRC channels for a few weeks and familiarized myself with OpenStack in varying forms including devstack , the free hosted Mirantis Express and the VM version, Ubuntu OpenStack , and even building my own 3 physical server cloud from second hand hardware purchased on eBay. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/tracking-the-ubuntu-openstack-installation-process-2015-06-02/ Tue, 02 Jun 2015 16:33:40 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/tracking-the-ubuntu-openstack-installation-process-2015-06-02/ Following on from Installing Ubuntu OpenStack the following steps help you navigate around the single server installation, monitoring and debugging the installation process. Configuration The initial execution of the installer will create a default config. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/installing-ubuntu-openstack-2015-06-01/ Mon, 01 Jun 2015 15:53:21 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/installing-ubuntu-openstack-2015-06-01/ The The Canonical Distribution of Ubuntu OpenStack provides a simple installer to run an OpenStack cloud. You can deploy a simple single machine setup with fully containerized services (11 in total), or a multi server installation leveraging MAAS – Metal as a Service and Landscape Autopilot. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-benefit-of-attending-the-openstack-summit-2015-05-25/ Mon, 25 May 2015 13:47:08 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-benefit-of-attending-the-openstack-summit-2015-05-25/ I attended my first OpenStack Summit in Vancouver 4/2015 . While I have used various cloud computing technologies for eight years and presented cloud content at events such as Cloud Expo, this was my first involvement with OpenStack. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/learning-the-openstackclient-osc-2015-05-13/ Wed, 13 May 2015 17:40:50 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/learning-the-openstackclient-osc-2015-05-13/ As a way to navigate the extent of the CLI options for nova, keystone, glance and also openstack commands I came up with an educational approach. While still early development the goal is to provide a Beginner/Intermediate/Expert views exposing various commands and options to help the user learn in a controlled way. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/disabling-the-temporary-authorization-token-in-devstack-keystone-2015-05-05/ Tue, 05 May 2015 16:52:29 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/disabling-the-temporary-authorization-token-in-devstack-keystone-2015-05-05/ While building my own OpenStack cloud on physical servers I realized that Keystone uses a temporary authorization token in the Create the service entity and API endpoint and Create projects, users, and roles steps. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/understanding-the-different-openstack-tox-configs-2015-04-30/ Thu, 30 Apr 2015 20:22:16 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/understanding-the-different-openstack-tox-configs-2015-04-30/ Openstack projects use tox to manage virtual environments and run unit tests which I talked about here . In this example I am using the oslo.config repo to look at the various tox configs in openstack use. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/running-openstack-tests-with-tox-2015-04-28/ Tue, 28 Apr 2015 17:13:26 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/running-openstack-tests-with-tox-2015-04-28/ Recently the OSC (python-openstackclient ) project removed run_tests.sh #177066 and tools/install_venv.py scripts #177086 . As I was very new to OpenStack development practices this threw me because of reading several OpenStack documentation pages including Getting the code that specifically mentions in Hacking on your laptop and running unit tests an example Setting Up a Developer Environment , and consulting with a friend that is a ATC this is the way I learned to setup virtual environments and running tests . https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/inconsistent-messaging-for-openstackclient-2015-04-20/ Mon, 20 Apr 2015 19:54:35 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/inconsistent-messaging-for-openstackclient-2015-04-20/ As I mentioned earlier in Moving to OpenStackClient CLI I came across several differences in reconciling the legacy CLI tools. I have also come across very inconsistent messaging. Here is a simple example. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/moving-to-openstackclient-cli-2015-04-20/ Mon, 20 Apr 2015 19:21:20 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/moving-to-openstackclient-cli-2015-04-20/ In working with the keynote CLI within the TripleO scripts I came across the following deprecation warning message. $ keystone token-get /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/keystoneclient/shell.py:65: DeprecationWarning: The keystone CLI is deprecated in favor of python-openstackclient. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/aws-cost-saving-tips-ebs-volumes-2015-03-10/ Tue, 10 Mar 2015 15:25:15 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/aws-cost-saving-tips-ebs-volumes-2015-03-10/ A trivial cost saving tip for checking if you are spending money in your AWS environment on unused resources. This is especially appropriate when using provisioned IOPS EBS volumes. $ ec2-describe-volumes | grep available VOLUME vol-44dff904 8 snap-d86d0884 us-east-1b available 2014-08-01T14:11:24+0000 standard VOLUME vol-62dff922 100 us-east-1b available 2014-08-01T14:11:24+0000 io1 1000 VOLUME vol-15dff955 8 snap-d86d0884 us-east-1b available 2014-08-01T14:11:24+0000 standard VOLUME vol-80a88ec0 8 snap-d86d0884 us-east-1b available 2014-08-01T15:12:54+0000 standard VOLUME vol-ca82a48a 100 us-east-1b available 2014-08-01T16:13:49+0000 standard VOLUME vol-5d79581d 8 snap-d86d0884 us-east-1b available 2014-08-01T18:27:01+0000 standard VOLUME vol-baf9dbfa 8 snap-d86d0884 us-east-1b available 2014-08-03T18:20:59+0000 standard VOLUME vol-53ffdd13 8 snap-d86d0884 us-east-1b available 2014-08-03T18:25:52+0000 standard VOLUME vol-ade7daed 8 snap-d86d0884 us-east-1b available 2014-08-13T20:10:46+0000 standard VOLUME vol-34e2df74 8 snap-065a2e52 us-east-1b available 2014-08-13T20:26:17+0000 standard VOLUME vol-cacef38a 100 snap-280ffb7f us-east-1b available 2014-08-13T21:19:18+0000 standard VOLUME vol-41350a01 8 snap-f23ccba5 us-east-1b available 2014-08-14T16:54:27+0000 standard VOLUME vol-51350a11 100 snap-fc3ccbab us-east-1b available 2014-08-14T16:54:27+0000 standard VOLUME vol-912f10d1 8 snap-96ee24c1 us-east-1b available 2014-08-14T17:15:06+0000 standard VOLUME vol-a82f10e8 100 snap-9dee24ca us-east-1b available 2014-08-14T17:15:06+0000 standard These are available and unused EBS volumes which you should consider deleting. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/improving-performance-a-full-stack-problem-2015-03-06/ Fri, 06 Mar 2015 17:51:48 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/improving-performance-a-full-stack-problem-2015-03-06/ Improving the performance of a web system involves knowledge of how the entire technology stack operates and interacts. There are many simple and common tips that can provide immediate improvements for a website. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/writing-re-runable-shell-script-2015-02-24/ Tue, 24 Feb 2015 04:44:59 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/writing-re-runable-shell-script-2015-02-24/ I recently started playing with [devstack][1] again (An all-in-on OpenStack developer setup). Last time was over 3 years ago because I remember a [pull request for a missing dependency][2] at the time. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/nosql-options-2009-10-06/ Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:53:40 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/nosql-options-2009-10-06/ The NoSQL event in New York had a number of presentations on non relational technologies including of Hadoop , MongoDB and CouchDB . Coming historically from a relational background of 20 years with Ingres , Oracle and MySQL I have been moving my focus towards non relational data store. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/drizzle-now-available-on-mosso-2009-04-27/ Tue, 28 Apr 2009 03:32:50 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/drizzle-now-available-on-mosso-2009-04-27/ Mosso the Rackspace Cloud now has a Drizzle developer image much like the first Drizzle AMI on EC2 . The Mosso interface is definitely different, it’s a GUI, and I definitely prefer CLI, but it’s a simpler navigation for a new user. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/setting-up-mysql-on-amazon-web-services-aws-presentation-2009-04-22/ Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:28:25 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/setting-up-mysql-on-amazon-web-services-aws-presentation-2009-04-22/ On Tuesday at the MySQL Camp 2009 in Santa Clara I presented Setting up MySQL on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This presentation assumed you know nothing about AWS, and have no account. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/your-code-your-community-your-cloud-project-kenai-2009-03-18/ Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:05:21 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/your-code-your-community-your-cloud-project-kenai-2009-03-18/ Following the opening keynote announcement about Kenai I ventured into a talk on Project Kenai . With today’s economy, the drive is towards efficiency is certainly a key consideration, it was quoted that dedicated hosting servers only run at 30% efficiency. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/everybody-is-talking-about-clouds-2009-03-18/ Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:14:04 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/everybody-is-talking-about-clouds-2009-03-18/ From the opening keynote at CommunityOne East we begin with Everybody is talking About Clouds. It’s difficult to get a good definition, the opening cloud definition today was Software/Platform/Storage/Database/Infrastructure as a service. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/extending-application-data-to-the-cloud-2008-08-01/ Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:11:36 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/extending-application-data-to-the-cloud-2008-08-01/ I was one of the invited panel speakers to A panel on Cloud Computing this week in New York. As one of 2 non vendor presenters, it was a great experience to be invited and be involved with vendors.