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
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
· June 3, 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 1, 2016 · 2 min read
While the OpenStack Ceilometer project is very popular for telemetry, it’s not really a OpenStack monitoring solution. It is a data collection service designed for gathering usage data on objects managed by OpenStack (instances, volumes, networks, et al), but it does not provide an out of the box solution to monitor OpenStack errors or anomalies.
· May 24, 2016 · 8 min read
You’ve decided to move forward with OpenStack implementation to build a private cloud! Congratulations – you are in good company. According to Wikibon, true private cloud (on-premise and hosted together) is expected to grow from $7 billion in 2015 to $201 billion in 2026 (36% CAGR) and be 31% of infrastructure spend. At last month’s
· May 18, 2016 · 4 min read