Originally published in The New Stack The old Chinese proverb, “May you live in interesting times,” is certainly bearing out for the infrastructure technology market. Recently, Boris Renski, co-founder of OpenStack vendor Mirantis, argued that the whole Infrastructure Software market is now dead (and that he has made his peace with it). To make his point, […]
· July 1, 2016 · 4 min read
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
· June 30, 2016 · 7 min read
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
· June 30, 2016 · 2 min read
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
· June 27, 2016 · 7 min read
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.
· June 24, 2016 · 1 min read
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
· June 22, 2016 · 4 min read
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
· June 20, 2016 · 3 min read
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
· June 17, 2016 · 6 min read
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
· June 17, 2016 · 2 min read
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
· June 17, 2016 · 4 min read
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
· June 16, 2016 · 6 min read
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
· June 12, 2016 · 2 min read