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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Public/admin api’s and high availability with Red Hat OpenStack Installer 6 Juno / Getting OpenStack HA CloudForms ready

This post will guide you through the configuration for an OpenStack HA cluster setup with public facing admin/public apis. Exposing the OpenStack apis is essential if you want to make use of hybrid cloud management tools like CloudForms. OpenStack HA is a very complex beast and hard to setup if you don’t have the right tooling….

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