https://ronaldbradford.com/tags/openstack/ Recent content in Openstack on Enterprise Data Architect | Principal Data Strategist | MySQL Subject Matter Expert | Author | Speaker Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Tue, 24 May 2016 13:41:39 +0000 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/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-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/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/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/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/installing-python-3-3-on-ubuntu-14-04-2-lts-2015-04-29/ Wed, 29 Apr 2015 17:52:56 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/installing-python-3-3-on-ubuntu-14-04-2-lts-2015-04-29/ Ubuntu 14.04 by default uses Python 2.7 and 3.4. If you want to install Python 3.3, in my case because various Openstack projects that maintain 3.3 compatibility. I had a hard time finding what I would consider an official means. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/configuring-git-review-on-your-mac-2015-04-29/ Wed, 29 Apr 2015 14:19:19 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/configuring-git-review-on-your-mac-2015-04-29/ If you are using git-review for the first time the following instructions correctly install and configure for Mac OS X. Software sudo easy_install pip sudo pip install -U setuptools sudo pip install git-review Configuration