Notes: Installing single/multi node hadoop cluster on ubuntu 12.04

1. Installing java6 cd ~/ wget https://raw.github.com/flexiondotorg/oab-java6/master/oab-java6.sh; chmod +x oab-java6.sh; sudo ./oab-java6.sh Script will build packages from source and place them in local repo, then they can be installed e.g.: sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-fonts sun-java6-source You can see all available packages in /var/local/oab/deb Remember to select the right version: sudo update-alternatives –config java To setup …

Ubuntu Developer Summit and Me

Attending UDS has been one of the biggest thing happened to me in year 2012 i would say so far. 🙂 Its really great to finally meet people face to face with whom you have been interacting all this while on IRC. I attended/participated most of the talks on server/cloud/juju during week long conference. I …

Essex/Precise beginners guide released.

Although am too late to blog about it still its better than not doing it. We at csscorp been working on the various release of Openstack for over a year. In continuation with our effort we have recently released Precise/Essex (12.04 ubuntu) version of our book. I am happy to be part of such awesome team …

Cloud commentary, same packaged shit(AwsVsOpenstackVsproprietary)

So before i begin i should tell you i removed around 5-6 shit creators/cloud pundits from my twitter feed. They were making my timeline into a rotton/shitty/cloudy junkyard. I will begin now:– So the distro troll was already around and alas there came this cloud commentary full of shit. So we have 3 camps AWS(Eucalyptus/Cloudstack), Openstack(HP …

Salt

Its been over 3-4 months i been itching to find alternative of Ruby based configuration management tool. I came to know about Salt. Its a configuration management tool written in python, from initial 30 mins of my experience am writing this blog. It took me less than 2 minutes get master/minion running on multiple VM via Virtualbox. From my experience …

Newbies guide to joining Cloud Ecosystem !!

Its been over a year i joined the cloud ride. I would be honest with reason to come up with this blog. Folks walking in IRC channel asking questions which is more related to there OS than the cloud product. It was like they just had a “joint” and in 30 minutes they want to …

Event Report: Gnunify.in, Pune, India

Gnunify.in is one of the oldest FOSS event in India, this year it was scheduled on 10th and 11th Feb 2012 . And yes this time i attended it as speaker after failing to qualify last year. 🙂 I spoke on Juju, Ubuntu Cloud Orchestration framework , presentation slides are available here Few take away for me personally …

Book Release: Open Advice

To begin with, thanks to Lydia for asking for my contribution in the book and pradeepto for leading/heading/organizing conf.kde.in, i wouldn`t have got this opportunity without it. 🙂 The book is available for download here I have contributed in “Documentation and Support” section with chapter title “Life-Changer Documentation for Novice”