Event report: FOSS meetup in Hyderabad!!

Am too late to blog on the same.  Pavi along with Praveen organized nice meetup in Hyderabad. The refreshing part about the meetup was presence of 30+ folks 🙂 We had folks from Ubuntu/Wikipedia/Mozilla/Puppet/Openstack were present. Detailed blog post about the event can be found at :– http://telugulinux.blogspot.in/  (In Telegu/use translate software) http://look-pavi.blogspot.in/2012/06/ubuntu-release-event-foss-team-hangout.html  (English) Photos: https://plus.google.com/photos/110580559131773472480/albums/5757213753439087057 …

Negativity all around!!

Disclaimer: This blog has nothing to do with Technology How many of you r  having/facing same issue around you :– 1. people are more unhappy about your success 2. people always suggest you stay away from taking risk/challenges 3. trying to be your daddy and suggesting do this/that 4. more interested in back bitching rather …

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 …