SS45267 – Automation and configuration management across hybrid clouds with Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat Satellite 6, and Ansible Tower by Red Hat

Today a dream came true for me by getting the honor to present at Red Hat Summit in SF 2016 “Automation and configuration management across hybrid clouds with CloudForms, Satellite6 and Ansible Tower“. When I joined Trivadis in 2006 Daniel Steiner who was a Senior Linux Engineer took me under his wings (He had earned…

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A Recipe to Build a Successful Cloud Environment: Stop Thinking Legacy, Think Cloud!

The awesome Narendra Narang and myself got invited to speak as alternate speakers at OpenStack Summit in Austin 2016. Unfortunately nobody backed out and we were not able to present our talk about building a successful cloud environment. Attached find our presentation. The presentation will walk you through the journey of what you will have…

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Modify the overcloud-full.qcow2 and Ironic configs to add drivers during boot time for deployment with Red Hat OSP Director based on tripleO

I am working with old equipment in my home lab which sometimes brings more complexity into my deployments. In case of tripleO and ironic my old hardware was actually beneficial to learn how ironic and triple0 works. I am working with BL465c G6 and SB40c which have a e200/p400 controller. RHEL7.x does not recognize these…

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OpenStack Instance console not trusted by browser

Fix invalid cert for Instance Console scp root@controller:/etc/pki/tls/certs/ssl_ps_server.crt . scp -r root@controller:/etc/pki/tls/private/ssl_ps_server.key . scp -r root@controller:/etc/pki/tls/certs/ssl_ps_chain.crt . openssl pkcs12 -export -out openstack.p12 -inkey ssl_ps_server.key -in ssl_ps_server.crt -certfile ssl_ps_chain.crt This will spit out a openstack.p12 file which can be imported and trusted in firefox.

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