Installation of Apache CloudStack and is dependencies using Opscode Chef community cookbooks.
To create a lab, a test environment or to just try CloudStack, you could install it using the installation documentation which is clean and fairly straight forward, but you can also install it with Chef and not worry about subtleties. Here is a quick way of installing CloudStack, MySQL server and NFS…
As a web operations firm in 2005, we were privileged to experience the emergence of cloud computing. At the time, our customers were exclusively e-commerce, SaaS, and advertising-driven publishing businesses. Amazon Web Services (AWS) unlocked what was essentially an unsolved problem — how to right-size your infrastructure to meet the needs of your business — and our AWS solutions provided our…
OpenStack Swift has become a leader in the open source object storage space. Swift is a production ready object storage platform developed by Rackspace under the Cloudfiles brand. Rackspace open sourced the software in partnership with the OpenStack foundation making it widely available and supported by the Openstack community.
Object storage platforms like Swift offer highly redundant and…
by Pierre-Luc Bisaillon
If you have a young kid (or are a kid at heart), Minecraft doesn’t need any introduction. At last count 10M people had bought the game and at least 5 times as many are playing the demo or some mobile version. For the uninitiated, this seems odd. The graphics are awful, and it’s not even a real “game” – in other words, there’s no mission or objective to achieve and…
by Pierre-Luc Bisaillon
After a few weeks of career days, wine and cheese, and interviews, I wanted to summarize a few key findings and give some tips to students (and grown-ups) looking for a job with CloudOps — or anywhere in the cloud industry, for that matter.
Try AWS — for free
Amazon Web Services is the industry leader and has enough capacity to offer every new customer a free tier,…
by Pierre-Luc Bisaillon
I read a recent Gartner insight that predicts that the use of the word cloud will drop off in 2013, to be replaced by better descriptors of business value. Whether or not we use it less, we will continue to use it a lot.
These days when I define what I mean by cloud, I return to the NIST definition, and use the following table to illustrate the options:
Servic…
by François Gaudreault
Recently, Apache CloudStack (ACS) released version 4.2 of its well known cloud orchestrator. With more than 160 bug fixes and dozens of new features, this version is by far one of their best, at least on paper. Since we had to upgrade one of our internal environments, we thought it would be an interesting opportunity to share our experiences with the new features present…
by François Gaudreault
Before anyone starts to rant or panic, a few disclaimers:
We love both CloudStack and OpenStack. In fact, we wrote and shared a connector to allow OpenStack Swift to authenticate against CloudStack.
We are a Citrix CloudAdvisor and have deep expertise with the Citrix CloudPlatform and Cloud Portal Business Manager products, and by extension, CloudStack.
We want to…
by Marc Vaillancourt
In some organizations, CPBM’s integrated account-management functionality is insufficient to satisfy the demanding requirements of the corporate security department. It’s not for a lack of features, since CPBM offers a rather complete set of functionality out of the box: email verification, encrypted password (with salt), captcha support, account locking after mult…
by Marc-André Jutras
In this, my first article, I answer a question that I often get asked: How do I set up and prepare my development environment for CloudStack? True, there are many articles and wiki pages available on this subject, but here is my method.
Keep in mind that this article assumes a good knowledge of Linux. It is intended for developers who want to try out the latest development…