A Blog of the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
I’m happy to say that this year has started with a lot of energy in terms of tech events in Switzerland. January was a little quiet, with people slowly recovering from the Christmas and New Years festivities. But come February, Zurich was a very busy location with several meetups happening every week. We also took […]
In one of our projects, GEYSER, we were looking into a way of packaging customized code for a pilot test. Generally, we developed µservices which communicate with key Openstack components and we have specifically modified Openstack Horizon code by adding a new dashboard. These µservices as well as Openstack Horizon are quite decoupled from the […]
Last night we organised the 5th Docker Switzerland user group meetup in Zürich. The event was co-located with the 7th CloudFoundry DACH user group meetup as well. We were overwhelmed to see the participation, the meetup page showed about a 100 people registered for the event, but about 75 showed up. Still it was a […]
In the context of the Cloud Native Applications (CNA) Seed Project we are working on migrating an open source CRM application into to the cloud. After enabling horizontal scalabilty of the original application and moving it onto our OpenStack cloud with the help of CoreOS (etcd, fleet) and docker we’ve now just finished adding the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Last week, 16 Oct 2014, great participation to OpenStack User Group – Meeting @ICCLab Winterthur. We have co-located it with docker CH meetup. Around 60 participants from both the user groups. For this event, we have organised the agenda trying to have a good mix of big players and developers presentations. Goals : Analysis […]