OpenStack distribution (or distro for short), is typically a product offering, which makes it easy to setup and use OpenStack. While one can download the various pieces of OpenStack cloud management software, and deploy...
Vagrant is a tool for providing repeatable work environments running on VirtualBox, KVM, OpenStack, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Softlayer, Rackspace among others. The most common use case is to create a virtual machine (VM)...
Hybrid Cloud has gained significant mindshare among the enterprise customers. Almost all major cloud vendors are providing hybrid cloud solutions today. Let’s understand the basics of hybrid cloud, and the technologies that make it...
With the advent of docker, there is a spurt in Container as a Service (CaaS) offerings from multiple cloud providers – Google, Amazon, IBM, Rackspace, Joyent to name a few. What exactly is Container...
Continuing our series on Vagrant usage with KVM on Power, in this article we’ll see how to create repeatable development environments using Vagrant and Docker. Developers working on the Intel platform might be already...
Vagrant provisioners allow software installation, configuration changes and other changes to the machines. Vagrant provides multiple provisioners, starting from simple shell scripts to complete configuration management systems, like chef, puppet, ansible etc. Provisioners get...
Vagrant is one of the ubiquitous devops tool for provisioning and managing operating environments on multitude of platforms – KVM, Virtualbox, AWS, Softlayer, Rackspace etc. In this article, we’ll see how to use Vagrant...
Recently, CoreOS announced a container runtime called Rocket. The containers are referred to as “App Containers,” and consists of app container image, app container runtime and app container discovery protocol. Canonical has come up...
Two questions, which I get asked frequently while discussions with clients on Power servers are – “whether admins need to learn new tools to manage the systems” and “is managing these systems different than...
Nagios is an open source IT infrastructure monitoring tool, and is very common in datacenters. Initial roll-out of Nagios in a datacenter is bit of a challenge. However, with the introduction of appliance delivery...
