Kubernetes The Easy Way

 Posted on 14 Feb 2017  (Last modified on 12 Aug 2020)  |  7 minutes  |  1475 words

Sometimes I don’t want to do things “the hard way” – I just need a testing environment. Kubernetes is one of those things when I’m developing applications. So when I needed a development cluster for my newest app, I wanted something fast, easy and without a lot of dependencies. Luckily, the latest releases of Kubernetes has made great strides in reducing the time between wanting a Kubernetes cluster and actually using a Kubernetes cluster – If you are on a public cloud, not OpenStack. [Read More]
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Grizzly Architecture Revisit

 Posted on 16 Jun 2013  (Last modified on 19 Sep 2016)  |  1 minutes  |  78 words

Back in April, I gave a presentation in Portland at the OpenStack Summit on the architecture of OpenStack Grizzly. As the presentation was limited to 45 minutes, I said I would post a more in-depth article about it (similar to my last Folsom OpenStack Archtecture post) shortly. Unfortunately, work got in the way. I have finally made good on my promise and posted the full length article along with several clarifications over on my work blog at http://www. [Read More]
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OpenStack Folsom Architecture

 Posted on 25 Sep 2012  (Last modified on 19 Sep 2016)  |  12 minutes  |  2528 words

As the Folsom release of OpenStack is due to be released this week, I’ve taken the time to update my “Intro to OpenStack Architecture 101” for the official documentation. It merged into the repos yesterday and below is an expanded version of it. OpenStack Components There are currently seven core components of OpenStack: Compute, Object Storage, Identity, Dashboard, Block Storage, Network and Image Service. Let’s look at each in turn: [Read More]
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Revisiting OpenStack Architecture: Essex Edition

 Posted on 21 Feb 2012  (Last modified on 19 Sep 2016)  |  9 minutes  |  1808 words

While it is still seven weeks until OpenStack “Essex” (2012.1) officially is released, release candidates are just around the corner. With this in mind, I thought it would be a good chance to revisit my earlier blog post on OpenStack Compute (“Nova”) architecture. This time around, instead of detailing the architecture of just a single service, I’ll look at all the pieces of the OpenStack project working together. To level-set everyone’s understanding, let’s briefly review the OpenStack project components and history. [Read More]
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OpenStack Has A Mascot: The "Tenrec" Book

 Posted on 05 Aug 2011  (Last modified on 19 Sep 2016)  |  2 minutes  |  373 words

You may have noticed that I have not posted anything in the last two months. And as you have probably guessed, it was because I was busy working on something else. That “something else” was writing Deploying OpenStack for O’Reilly Media. The book is intended to provide an introduction to the OpenStack project (Glance, Swift and Nova) Cactus release, an architectural overview of each component and some best practices for their deployment. [Read More]
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Finding Your OpenStack Nova version

 Posted on 30 Apr 2011  (Last modified on 19 Sep 2016)  |  2 minutes  |  313 words

I just got back from the OpenStack Developers Summit and while I am still trying to compile my thoughts on the event, I thought I’d dash off this little tidbit: A slight annoyance in administering (and troubleshooting) OpenStack Nova is identifying your installed version. This information is actually readily (i.e. programmatically) available within the code (and logged at the beginning of most logfiles), but we hadn’t exposed it to administrators on the command line until Nova trunk revision #1036. [Read More]
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OpenStack Nova Architecture

 Posted on 22 Apr 2011  (Last modified on 13 Feb 2017)  |  11 minutes  |  2240 words

NOTE: I’ve updated and expanded this blog post for the Folsom release. Click here to read the updated version. One of the common refrains I hear from people getting started with OpenStack is the lack of good introductory architectural overviews of the project. I was confronted by the same problem when I first started with the project - it was easy to get the low level code and API documentation but it was very difficult to find a “lay of the land”-type overview. [Read More]
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