Service Engineering (ICCLab & SPLab)

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Category: OpenStack

Setup a Kubernetes Cluster on OpenStack with Heat

In this post we take a look at Kubernetes and help you setup a Kubernetes Cluster on your existing OpenStack Cloud using its Orchestration Service Heat. This Kubernetes Cluster should only be used as a Proof of Concept. Technology involved: Kubernetes: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes CoreOS: https://coreos.com/ etcd: https://github.com/coreos/etcd fleet: https://github.com/coreos/fleet flannel: https://github.com/coreos/flannel kube-register: https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kube-register The Heat Template used in this Post is available on […]

Michael Erne
Kategorie: Articles, HowTos, OpenStack

A Web Application to Monitor and Understand Energy Consumption in an Openstack Cloud

In one of our projects we need to understand the energy consumption of our servers. Our initial work in this direction involved collecting energy consumption data using Kwapi and storing it in Ceilometer for further study. The data stored in Ceilometer is valuable; however, it is insufficient to really understand energy consumption in detail. Consequently, […]

Bruno Grazioli
Kategorie: Articles, Education, HowTos, News, Open Source, OpenStack, Standards

Main features of Hypervisors reviewed

We prepared this blog post to help students understand the hypervisor-support matrix introduced by OpenStack .  This information is spread throughout different sources. Many of these include Redhat Linux and OpenStack. We have tried to provide more general explanation where possible and reference links to other relevant sources. The respective features’ command syntax are of course different for different cloud platforms. This information is […]

Antonio Cimmino
Kategorie: *.*, Education, OpenStack