A Blog of the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
In one of our blog posts we presented a basic tool which extends the Openstack Nova client and supports executing API calls at some point in the future. Much has evolved since then: the tool is not just a wrapper around Openstack clients anymore and instead we rebuilt it in the context of the Openstack […]
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, […]
In this tutorial, we will be speaking about a “Swiftbox”. This is nothing more than our terminology for an Openstack installation that only needs and uses Swift and Keystone. The use and setup of this Swiftbox will be explained in this article. The reason why someone might want a stripped-down OpenStack installation with only Swift […]