Tag: Cloud

Build and operate your first OpenStack application

Through the interplay of components like Trove (database), Nova (compute), and Manila (shared filesystem) it is possible to build and operate reusable, portable, and scalable cloud applications with Heat, the orchestration service of OpenStack. In this session we show you how to get started, what to keep in mind and how to sucessfully buil, bootstrap,… Continue reading Build and operate your first OpenStack application

The Easiest and Most Flexible Ubuntu OpenStack Installer

The OpenStack Autopilot offers both the easiest install of OpenStack but also the flexibility to choose between SDN, storage and hypervisor options from a wide range of vendors. Join the project leads for a walk-through of the management capabilities in the Autopilot – growing your cloud over time, upgrading from version to version of OpenStack,… Continue reading The Easiest and Most Flexible Ubuntu OpenStack Installer

Security enforcement, from OS to image to VM for Production OpenStack Cloud

Suning Cloud Commerceis one of the largest privately owned retailers in China. Suning has more than 1600 stores covering over 700 cities of Mainland China, Hong Kong and Japan, and its e-commerce platform, Suning.com ranks among top three Chinese B2C companies. There are more than 180,000 employees, thousands of mixed power, x86, storage servers and… Continue reading Security enforcement, from OS to image to VM for Production OpenStack Cloud

Customize OpenStack NBI for Telco NFV

Andriod achieves great success as a customized Linux for mobile derives. Similar to Linux, OpenStack as a general cloud OS need to be customized for different scenarios, of which Telco NFV is one. While OpenStack is a competitive candidate for the virtual infrastructure manager (VIM) in the NFV architecture, existing interfaces provided by OpenStack are… Continue reading Customize OpenStack NBI for Telco NFV

Testing The Limits of Cloud Networks

As more OpenStack clouds move into production, the limits of scale and performance of the cloud need to be known as a pre-requisite to building a predictable operations plan. PLUMgrid ONS is based on a fully distributed architecture that is built for scale. Since forwarding decisions are distributed and made at each individual server, every… Continue reading Testing The Limits of Cloud Networks

Bringing provider networks into OpenStack using L2 gateway

Cloud computing technologies like Neutron have made overlay networking a solution for multi-tenant environments: workloads, themselves virtualized, are interconnected through isolated logical networks that are layered on top of the physical networking. However, in typical data centers, not every machine is virtualized: “bare metal” servers are still common, as they run software that is not… Continue reading Bringing provider networks into OpenStack using L2 gateway