Why Service Discovery ? Service Discovery effectively replaces the process of having to manually assign or automate your own DNS entries for nodes on your network. Service Discovery aimsĀ to move even further away from treating VM’s like pets to cattle, by getting rid of the age old practice of Hostname & FQDN having contextual value. […]
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How To: curl the Openstack API’s (v3 Keystone Auth)
While Openstack provides a python client(s) for interactions….
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[root@diamond ~]# source keystonerc_tuxninja [root@diamond ~(keystone_tuxninja)]# openstack server list +--------------------------------------+-------+--------+----------------------------------------+ | ID | Name | Status | Networks | +--------------------------------------+-------+--------+----------------------------------------+ | e5b35d6a-a9ba-4714-a9e1-6361706bd047 | spin1 | ACTIVE | private_tuxlabs=10.0.0.8, 192.168.1.52 | +--------------------------------------+-------+--------+----------------------------------------+ [root@diamond ~(keystone_tuxninja)]# |
I frequently, finding myself needing to get data out of it without the pain of awk/sed’ing out the ASCII art. Thus to quickly access the raw data, we can directly query the API’s using curl & parsing JSON instead, which is much better š Authentication Before […]
Continue ReadingInstalling Openstack Kilo on Centos 7
In a previous article I wrote about how to install Openstack Icehouse on CentOS 6.5 in great detail. In this article, I am going to keep verbosity to a minimum and just give you the commands ! I am hoping this will be refreshing for my audience. If you are curious however, about the what, […]
Continue ReadingHow To: Add A Compute Node To Openstack Icehouse Using Packstack
Pre-requisites This article is a continuation on the previous article I wrote on how to do a single nodeĀ all-in-oneĀ (AIO)Ā Openstack Icehouse install using Redhat’s packstack. A working OpenstackĀ AIO installation using packstack is required for this article.Ā If you do not already have a functioningĀ AIO install of Openstack pleaseĀ refer to the previous article beforeĀ continuing on to this articles […]
Continue ReadingHow To: Install Openstack Icehouse on CentOS 6.5 Using Packstack
A brief introduction of Openstack + My thoughts Openstack is open-source software for building clouds. It was created in 2010 by people from Rackspace & NASA, but is currently managed by the non-profit Openstack Foundation, which includes members from the who’s who of the technology sector that have joined forces to continue to invest & […]
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