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Wisdom in teaCame across this gem on my aniseed teabag today - I identified with it so much that I felt compelled to take a picture. It says (rough translation): It is not he who has little that is...
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Reasons why linux rocks no. 42232118887676 Last week I was in transit through a European airport (which shall remain unnamed) and I was very pleased to find that free wi-fi Internet access was...
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FOSDEM - 2012
FOSDEM - 2012 FOSDEM 2012 was excellent. Red Hat had a very strong presence at FOSDEM this year and especially so in the Virtualization and Cloud Devroom where I spent most of my time. On Saturday...
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Using the openstack-compute rubygem with HP Cloud Services So the folks at HP are running a private beta of their HP Cloud Services. They were kind enough to give me access to their beta program and...
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Updated Openstack v2 API driver in Deltacloud The first iteration of the updated Openstack driver for deltacloud has just been sent to the dev@deltacloud.apache.org mailing list. For now only...
View ArticleA look at networking in CIMI and Openstack
A look at networking in CIMI and Openstack First off I should note that the following is not really a head-to-head comparison; that wouldn’t be fair. CIMI is still a work in progress - current version...
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CIMI Networking in Deltacloud - A Work in Progress I’m currently implementing the CIMI Network entities for Deltacloud - this post introduces these and shows some examples of how a client can use...
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An updated ruby-openstack rubygem This post is so long overdue that I’ve forgotten much of the details involved. In short, there’s a new rubygem in town for talking to Openstack. Well - ‘new’ is...
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Segmenting Huge Blobs Apart from the compute infrastructure abstractions, Deltacloud has support for blob storage via the 'buckets' collection. Right now you can create a 'blob' via a HTTP PUT on the...
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Segmenting Huge Blobs - Part II I implemented the ‘multipart’/’segmented blob’ upload as described in my previous post. This ‘segmented blob’ API is not yet an official part of the Deltacloud API as...
View ArticleVolumes Support in the Deltacloud Openstack Driver
Volumes Support in the Deltacloud Openstack Driver Adding a new feature to a deltacloud driver means first checking that this feature is supported in the cloud provider client being used by that...
View ArticleDeltacloud CIMI API - CIMI Volumes, Machines and the MachineVolume collection
Deltacloud CIMI API - CIMI Volumes, Machines and the MachineVolume collection In case you didnt know, Deltacloud implements the DMTF Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface API (CIMI). This means...
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Deltacloud Networks API - a work in progress
Deltacloud Networks API - a work in progress The Deltacloud API is missing the management of network resources. Many IaaS APIs still don’t have a notion of ‘network’ resource management whilst for...
View ArticleQuantum API support for the ruby-openstack rubygem
Quantum API support for the ruby-openstack rubygem As part of work to include Network related resource management the Deltacloud API I added support for the OpenStack Quantum API to the ruby-openstack...
View ArticleUsing the openstack-compute rubygem with HP Cloud Services
Using the openstack-compute rubygem with HP Cloud Services So the folks at HP are running a private beta of their HP Cloud Services. They were kind enough to give me access to their beta program and...
View ArticleA look at networking in CIMI and Openstack
A look at networking in CIMI and Openstack First off I should note that the following is not really a head-to-head comparison; that wouldn’t be fair. CIMI is still a work in progress - current version...
View ArticleCIMI Networking in Deltacloud - A Work in Progress
CIMI Networking in Deltacloud - A Work in Progress I’m currently implementing the CIMI Network entities for Deltacloud - this post introduces these and shows some examples of how a client can use...
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An updated ruby-openstack rubygem This post is so long overdue that I’ve forgotten much of the details involved. In short, there’s a new rubygem in town for talking to Openstack. Well - ‘new’ is...
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Segmenting Huge Blobs Apart from the compute infrastructure abstractions, Deltacloud has support for blob storage via the 'buckets' collection. Right now you can create a 'blob' via a HTTP PUT on the...
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