As an update to the OpenStack Learning Labs in the Cisco DevNet site, a new version of the lab including OpenStack Mitaka deployed using Kolla is now available.OpenStack Kolla provides tools to deploy...
Heat CloudFormation (CFN) orchestration in OpenStack provides the ability to use AWS-style:APIstemplatesexpressions within regular HOT templatesThis means that operators coming from an AWS cloud envir...
Quality of Service (QoS) is defined as the ability to meet resource requirements in order to satisfy Service Level Agreements (SLA) between application/platform provider and end users. In a cloud env...
At Cisco we have used OpenStack heavily internally as well as supported use of it in partnership with our customers for several years now. One lesson we've learned from our operational experience with...
We make heavy use of Docker internally for its fantastic tooling to help streamline and focus our processes that depend on containers. Recently we found the need to begin hacking on the Docker source ...
Docker is a wonderful open source container system, and has good documentation for getting a development environment set up. Recently I needed to add a new command to Docker, and I found the next step...
An OpenStack cloud has a lot of virtual features. Almost every piece of hardware has been virtualized and this makes me think that a cloud is a very "soft" system.Hubs, switches, routers, interfaces/p...
Ironic is an OpenStack project which provisions physical hardware as opposed to virtual machines. Making physical hardware provisioning in the cloud as easy as provisioning virtual machines opens up t...
As a kid, I never missed a chance to watch a Japanese monster movie featuring Godzilla paying Tokyo a visit. Godzilla was a no show at last month’s OpenStack Summit in Tokyo, but a new giant did emerg...
The OpenStack community just announced the availability of its twelfth release, code named Liberty. It has been a quick six months since the Liberty OpenStack Design Summit in Vancouver but with each ...
Hope you have your flights and hotel booked and registration set for the OpenStack Summit, Tokyo. As always, there is a great lineup of sessions vying for your time and attention. As you plan out your...
Cisco Live! San Diego has already started and on 06/06 (Saturday) the OpenStack@Cisco team in collaboration with the DevNet team delivered the OpenStack Upstream Training in the DevNet zone. If you ar...
OpenStack Neutron has made and continues to make a lot of progress to enable IPv6 tenant networks. From supporting various IPv6 addressing schemes for tenant networks to enabling features that support...
The OpenStack team at Cisco under the leadership of Cisco's VP and CTO of Cloud Computing, Lew Tucker, was one of the first contributors to the OpenStack project when it all started in 2010. The effor...
As part of CiscoLive! San Diego, Cisco's DevNet team is working with a OpenStack experts inside and outside of Cisco to offer FREE training for developers new to OpenStack who want to learn to contrib...
