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Docker Orchestration: Survey Results from DockerCon16

Docker orchestration was a hot topic at DockerCon 2016 where thousands of DevOps teams gathered in Seattle last week to learn more about containerizing workloads for more agile and efficient application development. We talked to hundreds of people during the show, and conducted a short survey in our booth to take a quick pulse of this DevOps crowd on […]

How To Install OpenStack Using TripleO

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

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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.

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Docker Takes a Page from the Internet Explorer Playbook

In the late 90s, I had a short-sighted reaction to Microsoft bundling Internet Explorer with the Windows OS. While the technology world grappled with the legalities, ethics and impact to competition, I was just happy to have a browser that was faster and easier to use. I’m writing this at DockerCon16, where yesterday’s keynote reminded me

Containers as a Service with Platform9 Managed Kubernetes for Docker

There are two reasons we’ve always been excited about Docker, containers and Kubernetes. Enabling a True Multi-Cloud Deployment For the past decade, it has been difficult to make application development (using virtualized infrastructure) truly multi-cloud, since virtual machines and guest OSes are inherently not portable. For example, it’s very easy to create and deploy virtual machines on

How to Install OpenStack Using OpenStack-Ansible

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 to go. Then, there’s

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

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

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

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

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

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How to Install OpenStack Using RDO Packstack

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 to go. Then, there’s

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