In this article, let us see how to use the Power scale-out servers for Linux, running Debian LE (ppc64el), as an OpenStack compute node. Thanks to my colleague Sudipta Biswas, who helped me to...
Normally OpenStack is associated with managing of virtual servers. However OpenStack also supports managing of bare-metal cloud. This is made possible via the OpenStack Ironic project. OpenStack Ironic project provides bare metal management functionality....
ELK stack which stands for Elasticsearch Logstash and Kibana is a very common opensource log management solution, providing real time log analysis. Elasticsearch provides the storage and search engine, Logstash is the data collection...
Tutum can now manage hosts behind firewalls as well. This is especially useful for development environments on Virtual Machines (VMs) running on laptops or systems without having public IPs. It’s always better to know...
Current docker network functionality is limited. There is no support for openvswitch, tunneling, multiple networks among others. There are solutions like pipework, socketplane, weave, flannel from third party vendors providing advanced network functionality for...
Looks like the Big data world is now aiming for some standardization. Recently, a new alliance of Apache Hadoop distribution vendors, solution providers and customers got formed. The alliance named Open Data Platform (ODP)...
Recently, VMware and Google entered into a partnership, that will allow certain Google Cloud Platform services to be available via VMware vCloud Air. Initially, the following Google Cloud Platform services will be provided: Google...
Another round of updates on the container world.. – new features, runtimes, orchestration engine etc. CoreOS announced new release of Rocket and the App Container spec. There is also a new app container runtime,...
With the latest version of gcc (version 5.0 onwards) for Go language having all the required Power (ppc64) architecture specific support, now part of Ubuntu 15.04 LE (ppc64el), its very easy to build upstream...
It is a known fact, that Docker uses linux bridge for container networking, by default. When docker daemon starts, it creates a linux bridge named docker0, and assigns an IP address from the following...
