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In a previous series of blog posts (1, 2, 3), we have discussed how to install Monasca to monitor OpenStack, how to create alarms based on specific events happening in the monitored system, and how to setup notifications when any of these alarms are triggered. Going further, in the context of the Cloud Orchestration initiative and the Hurtle […]
In many applications it is necessary to create virtual resources in a certain order. As an orchestration engine, Heat is able to support such a requirement, but how it is actually done in a template can be tricky. Recently I had to write such a Heat template, which seemed pretty easy as there is a number […]
With the advent of large scale architectures came a need to improve the distribution of requests to optimize the throughput of the system while keeping a minimum response time. This is especially true for large web services. Load balancing is the ability to make many servers participate in the same service and do the same […]