OpenStack

Automate OpenStack using Ansible

ajscanlas — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 08:00:00 +0000

Automate OpenStack using Ansible ajscanlas Tue, 02/21/2023 - 03:00

Ansible offers unique flexibility when automating your infrastructure.

I demonstrated how I manage OpenStack using Terraform in my previous article. Using Terraform as Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is a significant advantage, but it also requires…

Manage OpenStack using Terraform and GitLab

ajscanlas — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 08:00:00 +0000

Manage OpenStack using Terraform and GitLab ajscanlas Wed, 02/15/2023 - 03:00

Follow this tutorial to see how using GitLab can further enhance collaboration in your OpenStack cluster.

One virtue of GitOps is Infrastructure as Code. It encourages collaboration by using a shared configuration and policy repository. Using GitLab can further enhance…

How upstream contributions power scientific research

cdelia — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 08:00:00 +0000

How upstream contributions power scientific research cdelia Fri, 02/03/2023 - 03:00

Just as with software development, research under Horizon Europe promotes the adoption of sharing research outputs as early and widely as possible to citizen science…

Horizon Europe emphasizes open science and open source technology. The program evolved from Horizon 2020, which provided financial support for research projects that promoted…

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Use Terraform to manage an OpenStack cluster

ajscanlas — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 08:00:00 +0000

Use Terraform to manage an OpenStack cluster ajscanlas Tue, 01/31/2023 - 03:00

Terraform is a declarative language that can act as a blueprint of the infrastructure you're working on.

After having an OpenStack production and home lab for a while, I can definitively say that provisioning a workload and managing it from an Admin and Tenant perspective is…

How to use Kubernetes and OpenStack together

knelson — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 07:00:00 +0000

How to use Kubernetes and OpenStack together knelson Tue, 03/08/2022 - 02:00

Work is done collaboratively on both sides and there are support systems in place for both OpenStack and Kubernetes.

In OpenStack's 2021 User Survey, the majority of respondents said they use Kubernetes as the container orchestration or Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) tool to manage their…

Solve network fragmentation with MTU

jpatete — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 08:01:00 +0000

Solve network fragmentation with MTU jpatete Thu, 01/20/2022 - 03:01

This tutorial provides a workaround to help network administrators address MTU issues without needing a stack update to move MTUs back and forth.

During the implementation of OpenStack workloads, a common issue is fragmentation throughout the network, causing unforeseen performance issues. Fragmentation is normally…

How the OpenStack community is collaborating during the pandemic

knelson — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 08:01:00 +0000

How the OpenStack community is collaborating during the pandemic knelson Fri, 02/12/2021 - 03:01

The OpenStack community delivered two new versions of the open source cloud computing software on time while working virtually.

The OpenStack community is BIG. From Argentina to Morocco to Israel to Vietnam, we literally span the globe, so it's not surprising that we largely knew what to do to…

Set up OpenStack on a Raspberry Pi cluster

ajscanlas — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 08:01:00 +0000

Set up OpenStack on a Raspberry Pi cluster ajscanlas Wed, 12/02/2020 - 03:01

Since Arm processors are "first-class citizens" in OpenStack, and Raspberry Pis are built on Arm, why not combine them?

In the year since the Raspberry Pi 4 was released, I've seen many tutorials (like this and this) and articles on how well the 4GB model works with container platforms such as…

Happy 10th anniversary, OpenStack!

Sunny Cai — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 07:00:00 +0000

Happy 10th anniversary, OpenStack! Sunny Cai Mon, 08/24/2020 - 03:00

In the last decade, OpenStack has grown from a small project aiming to bring choice in cloud solutions to becoming a cloud platform standard.

OpenStack has transformed the open source industry since it launched 10 years ago. It was an endeavor to bring greater choice in cloud solutions by combining NASA's Nova with…

How to upload an OpenStack disk image to Glance

jpatete — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 07:00:00 +0000

How to upload an OpenStack disk image to Glance jpatete Mon, 03/16/2020 - 03:00

Make images available to your private cloud, and more.

Glance is an image service that allows you to discover, provide, register, or even delete disk and/or server images. It is a fundamental part of managing images on OpenStack…