A Blog of the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
In the Linux world, a popular approach to build highly available clusters is with a set of software tools that include pacemaker (as resource manager) and corosync (as the group communication system), plus other libraries on which they depend and some configuration utilities. On Illumos (and in our particular case, OmniOS), the ihac project is abandoned and I couldn’t find any […]
CERN Openstack (super) User Story CERN is looking for answers to the fundamental questions concerning creation of the Universe and true to its nature, its a a big data challenge. With the historical run of LHC in 2013, their archive now contains ~100PB (with additional 27PB/year) at ~11 000 servers with ~75000 disk drives and ~45 000 […]
Towards a Self-Driving Infrastructure With the increasing popularity of OpenStack, its imperative to have an easy process to deploy and maintain it. In this regard the researchers from Tsinghua University along with Huawei have developed a “Deployment as a Service” called Compass. The talk described a use case of deploying about 200 VMs for a […]
As part of the on-going work in MobileCloud Networking the project will demonstrate outputs of the project at this year’s Globecomm industry-track demonstrations. Globecomm is being held this year in Austin, Texas. The demonstration shows a NFV compatible architecture that leverages key technologies of OpenStack and OpenShift to deliver an end-to-end orchestrated service combining RAN, EPC, IMS and supported by monitoring and billing services.
The OpenStack Summit is a five-day conference for developers, users, and administrators of OpenStack Cloud Software. This time it takes place in Palais des congrès in Paris from November 2 to November 7. ICCLab is attending the Openstack Summit for the very first time. Schlagwörter: bbva, bmw, openstack, openstack summit, twc
There are many tools available which can be used to monitor operation of the Opentack infrastructure, but as OpenStack user you might not be interested in monitoring OpenStack itself. Your primary interest should be the operation of the VMs that are hosted on OpenStack. Nagios OpenStack Installer is a tool for exactly that purpose: it […]
The Green IT Special Interest Group (SIG) of the Swiss Informatics Society met yesterday (29/10/14) in Zurich. ZKB kindly hosted the event. A full meeting report will probably appear on the group’s website, but here we just capture some of our reflections on the group’s work. This was our second time to attend the group […]
In our last ICCLab newsletter, in the cloud economics tutorial, we introduced how cloud infrastructures could be utilized for off-loading the variable and unpredictable resource needs. This is one of the basic principles of public cloud business. The InIT ICCLab cloud-economics lecture provides extensive use case studies and lab exercises on these topics. 1. Use […]
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 […]