Happy Birthday OpenStack #OpenStack3Bday

Current Mood (Excited)   What an incredible journey this has been. We are celebrating 3rd birthday of OpenStack, the Open Source cloud computing software for building clouds. We have had awesome journey so far and will continue rocking.     How it started? Rackspace + NASA = OpenStack   Where are we now? [2]  Rackspace …

Linux Namespaces, CentOS & OpenStack

Few weeks back me & my friend wanted to try out OpenStack on CentOS. We followed all steps but after 3 days of debugging we were still not able to figure out the issue. I am total newbie with the networking part of OpenStack, trying to catch up with it. After hitting head around forums, launchpad …

Things i like about Chennai

I been here for over two and half years. So felt like writing what i feel about this place. Food Most people think Chennai only famous for veg food like dosa/idli/appam that is not correct. I was lucky to try nice Chettinad non-veg food along with variety of seafood. Yes thats me eating drumstick chicken …

RabbitMQ webUI & Ubuntu

I heard about RabbitMq webUI from my friend Ritesh. I felt it will be helpful for anyone who wants to understand queue workflow playing with OpenStack. After reading found this for getting the same on Ubuntu 12.04. Installing RabbitMQ Server # apt-get install rabbitmq-server Checking list of installed plugin. # rabbitmq-plugins list [ ] amqp_client …

OpenStack Summit, Portland & me.

I been lucky  this time to attend the OpenStack Summit summit hosted in Portland. Why am saying lucky because :–  (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 …

OpenStack: Grizzly release is here!!

Yesterday the latest stable release of OpenStack code name  “GRIZZLY” got released. I am adding here list of  interesting blogs & stats which can be helpful to get more details about it. 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 …

OpenStack Swift in a box (folsom/ubuntu 12.04)

Last week i was at PES IT college, Bangalore  for a workshop on OpenStack Swift. I had to get them (students) a hands on of the same. 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 …