I was suggested by my boss to attend ITIL foundation course as it will help me in understanding whole workflow & process. I was reluctant to spend 24 hours (8*3) i.e 3 days for it initially but after introductory session i got interested.

ITIL just tells/gives you idea & recommendation how things should be designed, kept in place for a successful IT setup. It just tells you the best practice rather instructing how.

So what was my takeaway from the course?

1. Understanding the whole process work flow.
2. Assigning a supervisor/manager who is responsible for one module in the entire process.
3. Roles & responsibility about your product/service.
4. Continuous upgradation & testing to achieve better result.
5. What not to do in order to fail.

Neither am a CEO or some successful manager who/CTO had deployed or architected a massive infrastructure but i would love to recommend everyone about it, its worth reading/understanding.

Lastly i have no interest in taking the certification exam, i just wanted to understand what/how it helps/works & purpose is achieved.

I was in Delhi last week for few days, i visited after 8 months this time. I been hearing so many bad things about Delhi for some time. So I thought why not add few good things which I love about Delhi.

Food

Delhi has one of the best variety of food one can find. It has a mix of Mughlai/Punjabi/North Indian as some of the variety. One can easily spend eating month trying all the varieties of food city has to offer.

Culture

One can find mix of culture and belief in the city. From one side to another you will see how quickly the whole way of living, eating & celebrating changes.

History

One can find Delhi in history if n number of books. The city ruled by so many rulers across the world.

Friends

Last not the least all my awesome friends with whom I spent over 10 years of my stay in city.

Planning to Visit Delhi?

www.hohodelhi.com

www.delhimetrorail.com

www.delhitourism.gov.in

The URL will be sufficient for your stay and visit around the city.

 (photo credit @nikiacosta)

1. I was finally able to meet a lot of developers and friends whom i been interacting over 2 years on IRC for help/support related to various OpenStack related issues.

2. I could witness how awesome the overall project has evolved over span of two years, over 2000 participants & so many new faces in the dev room. I am saying this because i have been part of the project from almost day 0.

(Photo Credit  @itarchitectkev)

3. I could see same people talking/tweeting/speaking about OpenStack who been fighting with us in past about our project & everything we were doing.

4. I could finally meet guys from various other enterprises & talk to them about how they can help us with the support in  strengthening OpenStack India community.

5. Interacting with global OpenStack community & sharing/exchanging thoughts about our OpenStack India Community.

6. Last not the least meeting again some of the super awesome folks whom i been following on Twitter & other social media space for help/support & who have been always helpful to me.

(Photo Credit @MichaeljonF)

And lastly i could eat Voodoo Donuts thanks @MichaeljonF to  for that.

https://www.openstack.org/software/grizzly/press-release Press Release

http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/04/openstack-grizzly Offical Blog

http://www.slideshare.net/laurensell/openstack-grizzly-release Official Announcement Slide

http://swiftstack.com/blog/2013/04/04/openstack-swift-grizzly-release/  Swift updates in Grizzly

http://blog.bitergia.com/2013/04/04/companies-contributing-to-openstack-grizzly-analysis/  Companies Contributing to Grizzly

https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes/Grizzly Release Note

http://www.openstack.org/software/grizzly/  Grizzly Contributors List

If you are in India & want to contribute & participate in OpenStack India join us :

http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group  OpenStack India Meetup India

So i went through the video & resources which Joe Arnold created explaining about swift. (http://swiftstack.com/training/swift-install/) So essentially what i have done here is extension of what was explained on Swiftatack site but customized it to my need.

The thing was i was not able to find the script which can help me install Swift via Ubuntu repository on a fresh Ubuntu machine so what i did was , i went thought the official swift in a box guide & wrote a simple script which installs swift for you once you have Ubuntu 12.04 up and running along with cloud archive in place in your apt.sources.list.

Lastly thanks to my friend Hugo Ko  who been great help in in fixing some errors i was getting cos of the file system permissions. I owe you a beer Hugo

Custom virtualbox  Image for Ubuntu 12.04 can be found from here

README : http://ubuntuone.com/49aYHhSpokDM2JiFZJ2lYk

Virtualbox Image (swift : swift are the credentials for default login user:password )  : http://ubuntuone.com/1pYvdOsh6eoRg7nTW3nJMK

Custom Script for installing swift on ubuntu 12.04 

http://ubuntuone.com/7lUvVbGNUPmCYIR9arzsdi

I hope it helps everyone one wants to play with swift in a box with tempauth. Also i have not done anything awesome incredible here because most of it is already available at many places.

I have added it all on Bitbucket as well Happy “Forking”  

Hope it helps!!  :)

I am not writing this blog to prove anyone wrong or taking side with anyone. What Canonical has done for community & spreading word of Linux has been incredible. They are an Enterprise and they have every right to take decision on Ubuntu. But at same time they have to make sure that community who has always been behind them(Am one of them) remains with them.

I would hope things will settle down soon & all the questions will be addressed or has already been by Jono(Community Manager)

Past few weeks have been painful. I was treated for CT and after two weeks when i visited new doctor i been told i don`t have that. I have RSI now am trying to take as many exercise possible to give rest to my hands. At same time i have missed too many deadlines.

Its true life sucks & shit happens. Its all about time. I hope will get well & recover soon.

I had this opportunity to speak about cloud computing and OpenStack in February month Linux User Group Chennai meetup. We had interesting talk and demo lined up, see the details here we had a crowd of over 30 people and was fun to interact with everyone. I just realized 30 mins is not sufficient to talk about cloud computing & OpenStack along with taking all the questions from audience.

I will make sure to attend the meetup next month and speak about Nova the OpenStack compute project.

Photos of the event are available here

Flipkart.com

Started as online bookstore now sells almost everything. In short i would say its AMAZON of India. I am a big fan of them. One new thing which they bought to Indian customers was “cash on Delivery “ 

naukari.com

One of the web portal catering needs of Indians looking for employment. A job portal in simple terms.

shaadi.com

One of the very first web portal came in existence to help in marriage match making(matrimony)

redbus.in

I am a regular user of this site. The site provides online reservation of bus tickets for almost all major cities. They already have over million tickets booking done.

cleartrip.com

One of the first web portal which launched with aim of providing great flight ticketing experience.

Lastly almost all of them are using cloud

Wrote another article on Muktware 5 recipe for a healthy FOSS community!! Let me know what you guys think.