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Demo of Platform9 Managed Kubernetes with Jenkins

Recently, we announced the beta release of Platform9 Managed Kubernetes, a SaaS-managed offering for Kubernetes. The “managed” experience means Platform9 handles all the nitty gritty details of Kubernetes deployment, configuration, ongoing monitoring, troubleshooting and upgrades. This lets software developers focus on using the Kubernetes APIs to build cloud-native applications, and DevOps teams can focus on realizing

Platform9 · July 26, 2016 · 1 min read

Podcast: Comparing CloudStack vs OpenStack

Peter Lopez, presently the Principal Architect at Technicolor and previously the Systems Architect at Disney, is one of the few people who’ve spent significant time deploying both Apache CloudStack and OpenStack. In this podcast, Peter and Sirish Raghuram, CEO of Platform9, compare CloudStack vs OpenStack. They contrast deployment models, networking and storage architectures, and how each

Platform9 · July 21, 2016 · 1 min read

How to Install OpenStack using Fuel

Fuel OpenStack Tutorial One of the great things about OpenStack is all the options you have for deploying it. A recent blog mentioned various deployment models – and the flowchart below may help as you decide which model is best for you. For example, if you need a highly customized OpenStack deployment, then DIY may

Platform9 · July 12, 2016 · 5 min read

How to Install OpenStack using DevStack

One of the great things about OpenStack is all the options you have for deploying it. A recent blog mentioned various deployment models – and the flowchart below may help as you decide which model is best for you. For example, if you need a highly customized OpenStack deployment, then DIY may be the way

Platform9 · June 30, 2016 · 7 min read

How To Install OpenStack Using TripleO

Platform9 · June 27, 2016 · 7 min read

OpenStack Deployment Models: Summary of Pros and Cons

As OpenStack interest and mindshare grows rapidly, the question of how to deploy an OpenStack private cloud is foremost in the minds of cloud architects and IT operations teams. This infographic summarizes the choices for OpenStack deployment and list some pros and cons. For a more detailed walkthrough of OpenStack deployment models, please check out this tech guide.

Platform9 · June 24, 2016 · 1 min read

How to Install OpenStack Using OpenStack-Ansible

Platform9 · June 17, 2016 · 6 min read

OpenStack Keystone Authentication using Active Directory Federation Service (ADFS)

In earlier OpenStack Keystone configuration blogs we discussed how to setup Keystone authentication using LDAP and using Active Directory. As an extension of this OpenStack Keystone tutorial series on directory services, this tutorial will give an overview of configuring Keystone SSO with Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS). Microsoft Active Directory manages user identities to secure

Platform9 · June 17, 2016 · 2 min read

OpenStack Keystone Single Sign-On (SSO) Setup

In an earlier blog, we discussed how to setup Federated Identity for Openstack Keystone so that a Service Provider (SP) Keystone instance can hand off authentication to an external service, called the Identity Provider (IdP). One of the benefits with this is to enable OpenStack Keystone Single Sign-On (SSO), via APIs or Horizon dashboard, so

Platform9 · June 17, 2016 · 4 min read

OpenStack Keystone Federation Setup

As enterprises get more comfortable with the idea of hybrid cloud and multi-clouds, it has become critical to seamlessly manage user identities, and provide access to resources, across multiple clouds. Enterprises are using federated identity, along with single sign-on, to easily onboard users to the cloud. OpenStack Keystone federation can be set up by using

Platform9 · June 16, 2016 · 6 min read

OpenStack Keystone Authentication using Active Directory (AD)

A previous blog gave an overview of how to configure Keystone with LDAP. Microsoft Active Directory (AD) is another very popular directory service for many enterprises. This article gives an overview of how to configure Keystone authentication using Active Directory backend. How to Integrate a AD backend in Keystone Microsoft Active Directory (AD) is based on

Platform9 · June 12, 2016 · 2 min read

OpenStack Keystone Authentication Using LDAP

Keystone is a OpenStack project that implements OpenStack’s identity API and provides authentication and authorization services to identify users of the OpenStack cloud. It also provides a catalog of all other deployed OpenStack services such as Nova, Neutron, Cinder and Glance. These services trust Keystone to create and manage user identities and credentials. For some

Platform9 · June 3, 2016 · 3 min read

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