Today was the end of the beginning. I've been a little out of sorts for the past few weeks and I don't really know how to write this post. I've rewritten this thing nearly a dozen times so I'll just get it over with by acknowledging the past, say thank you, and give a nod to the future. It has been a...

Building an OpenStack-Ansible test deployment within an OpenStack cloud has never been simpler; just boot the node, pass some user-data, profit! Before building instances, check the system requirements to ensure you're building VMs of an adequate size. If you're access to the OpenStack environment is through horizon simply go to the instances panel and click "Lanuch Instance". Once loaded click...

Within the OpenStack infra system we're now seeing gate jobs run on clouds using IPv6 as the public interface; The Rackspace and Intel cloud (OSIC) is one such environment. This means that if you're like me, you watch the gate like a crazy person, and you're on an ISP that doesn't offer IPv6 access, streaming jobs via a telnet console using an...

So you want to try OpenStack? Want to build a cloud? Want to try OpenStack? Curious how the OpenStack Cloud eco system all works? In the past you, the cloud operator, had to have a lot of tribal knowledge to simply stand OpenStack up. In later releases OpenStack became more robust and better documented but the process to build all of the...

So you have decided to get a Cloud Server and you want to install a LNMP stack on your server. This is a total possibility and all you have to do is enter a few commands. I am sure that you have heard of a LAMP stack on a Linux Server, but have you heard of a LNMP stack. Well this is...