There is only one simple answer to this question- none of your pre-filled “What is your favorite _______ ?” will be appropriate for me. The problem with these questions is that they are either hard to answer for me, or too easy for you to find out by checking out my facebook/twitter/linkedin/whatever social networks. Please, [...]
I just started looking at Ceph, and wanted to set it up to be used with DevStack. Ceph website has great documentation, so if you are looking on how to setup OpenStack and Ceph for production use, check it out! However, if you just want to get the DevStack with Ceph running, follow along this [...]
This is a post of how helpful people are in the OpenStack community. If you were to visit the lobby of Hilton Executive tower in Portland last Wednesday, you would have seen me and a couple other people making the cloud of USB sticks. Last Thursday, I gave my first ever conference talk/tutorial at the OpenStack [...]
Instead of having everyone to install Razor to demo it during the OpenStack Summit in Portland, I created a Razor appliance. Installing and configuring Razor is not difficult, but could be a little time consuming if you do not have either Puppet or Chef already set up and configured. You can, of course, install it [...]
Ever wanted to know what information Razor collects about your system that you could lay your hands on? Wonder no more! When handing of your newly created node to a broker, besides installing the client and registering it with the server, Razor also injects custom facts into the new node. They consist of two parts, [...]
A few weeks ago i posted about the razor chef broker, while it was still a work in progress. After some awesome collaboration with Fletcher Nichol, Tom McSweeney, and Cody Bunch, chef broker is now officially part of Razor. Originally, while puppet broker was the only one available, the CLI options for adding a broker [...]
Update: there is a newer, official version of razor chef broker. Please refer to this post for more details. Project Razor is a power control, provisioning, and management application designed to deploy both bare-metal and virtual computer resources. It also provides broker plugins to integrate with third party systems. If such broker is provided as [...]
Q: How often should I checkin code into github? A: More often is better than less often, if you write a lot of code, do it at least 2-4 times a day. Q: Should I branch/fork? A: branching and forking is there to help you better organize your code by feature. If you are working [...]
If you are currently working on a project that you would like to check into github, it may not be very obvious at first. This step by step tutorial assumes that you already setup your github account. If you have not, follow these instructions first: https://help.github.com/articles/set-up-git. Once your github is setup, create a new repo trough UI: [...]
It seems like everyone is using github these days, and it is easy to fork and branch trough it’s UI. But what if you are just starting with using git? I will reveal a few not so hidden secrets of git. First, github is based on git, so if you just been reading github documentation, [...]