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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 […]
In Mobile Cloud Networking (MCN) we rely heavily on OpenStack, OpenShift and of course Automation. So that developers can get working fast with their own local infrastructure, we’ve spent time setting up an automated workflow, using Vagrant and puppet to setup both OpenStack and OpenShift. If you want to experiment with both OpenStack and OpenShift locally, simply clone this project…
The ICCLab developed a new High Availability solution for OpenStack which relies on DRBD and Pacemaker. OpenStack services are installed on top of a redundant 2 node MySQL database. The 2 node MySQL database stores its data tables on a DRBD device which is distributed on the 2 nodes. OpenStack can be reached via a […]
If automation is required, Vagrant and Puppet seem to be the most adequate tools to implement it. What about automatic installation of High Availability database servers? As part of our Cloud Dependability efforts, the ICCLab works on automatic installation of High Availability systems. One such HA system is a MySQL Server – combined with DRBD, […]
As kindof advertisement for the new OpenStack Grizzly release we have created an automated single-node OpenStack Grizzly installation which uses Vagrant and Puppet. The automated installation can be downloaded from Github using the following URL: https://github.com/kobe6661/vagrant_grizzly_install.git Please feel free to install it on your machine and test the new release. Schlagwörter: Github, grizzly, installation, openstack, […]
There is always room to test different HA technologies in a simulated VM environment. At ICCLab we have created such a DRBD test environment for PostgreSQL databases. This environment is now available on Github. The test environment installation uses Vagrant as tool to install VMs, Virtualbox as VM runtime environment and Puppet as VM configurator. […]
Vagrant is a ruby framework that automates a lot of the boring, painful setup a developer needs to do to work with services. In the case of the ICCLab those services are generally OpenStack services. We use vagrant to create consistent reproducible setups of our testbed on local development machines.
Like us in the ICCLab, you have likely spent lots of time researching the best means to deploy OpenStack and you’ve decided upon a particular method (at the ICCLab we use foreman and puppet). You’ve implemented OpenStack with your chosen deployment plan and technologies and you now have an operational OpenStack cluster. The question you now have to ask is: “How do I test that all functionality is operating correctly?”