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Enterprise companies tend to use bare metal machines extensively for their mission critical and data intensive applications, as bare metal provides superior performance and I/O over your average virtual machines.  In addition, VMs also come with the added issue of noisy neighbors.  This is also why many cloud providers have… Read More

In my previous post I discussed the evolution of networking in the cloud – from commodity hardware to the cloud, and the need for the virtualization of network functions, and the different drivers for change.  In this post I will focus on orchestrating your networking through OpenStack’s Neutron, its… Read More

The Cloud The cloud gives you the option to use as many resources as you want, essentially “endless” resources on demand, where you only pay for what you use. In a world where everything is dynamic, and IT environments are constantly changing, this is becoming an ever-growing need. Read More

  How Cloudify Integrates with Chef There are many common challenges today for your everyday dev and ops tasks: Configuration management Server provisioning Application deployment Monitoring of deployed tiers Auto-scaling In addition to some nice to have functionality, such as multi-region resilience and multi-cloud enablement.  This is where known DevOps… Read More

Automation as We Know It Today If you haven’t been hiding in a cave in the last year or two, you’ve probably heard the terms devops and infrastructure automation more than once… But even today, infrastructure automation is mostly focused on setup and deployment of complex systems. Read More

Intro to JClouds JClouds, a Java framework that helps developers use cloud APIs, at its onset, was a one man shop written by Adrian Cole (@adrianfcole) who is a gifted Java programmer and architect, to say the least.  It has since been… Read More

In the Linux world SSH, secure shell, is the de facto standard for remote connectivity and automation for the purpose of logging into a remote machine to install tools and run commands.  It’s pretty much ubiquitous, runs across multiple Linux versions and distributions, and every Linux admin worth their salt… Read More

width=”100%”—layout: blogposttitle: Behavior Driven Development and User Experienceimage: eliran.jpgauthor: Eliran Malkatags:– Programming– Community– Open Source– Web UI—Behavior Driven Development (BDD) is the new “buzz word” for the programming concept of Test Driven Development (TDD).  This change in terminology… Read More

What does networking actually mean? Networking is a fairly abstract term, it means different things to different people. This is because, in contrast to compute and storage, networking is comprised of many components, and their different network functions including load balancers, routers, firewalls, switches and more. Each of these… Read More

Ok, so our new configuration is great, but now it’s time to think about taking our cloud automation (see previous post) to the next level. While Puppet takes care of our deployment phase, we are still stuck with manual provisioning of the machine and manual management of the post-deployment… Read More

Puppet, a popular configuration management tool is used by many IT companies to help facilitate and automate the setup of environments. We’ll discuss Cloudify in this context from a cloud orchestration perspective – running between the application and the cloud you choose to work… Read More

width=”100%”— layout: blogpost title: Openstack in a Box – Setting Up Devstack Havana On Your Local Network image: barak.jpg author: Barak Merimovich tags: – Cloud Automation – Devstack – OpenStack – Programming – OpenStack Havana — The Openstack… Read More