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Category Archives: devops
Openstack Summit Fall 2011 – Wrap-up and overview
I’m back from the OpenStack design summit and conference, just held in Boston, MA. It was a fantastic week, with the first three days dedicated to the design summit – getting down and dirty with the details, and the last … Continue reading
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Benchmarking Celery
Before you even go there, I’ll preface this with YMMV. This little post is to document a benchmark that I did for an internal use case, in the hopes that it’ll be helpful for others. As a benchmark, I wasn’t … Continue reading
Eyes – a new monitoring system
It was over a year ago that I started getting really annoyed at the state of monitoring systems. They all do what you sort of expect a monitoring system to do – watch (poll) systems and alert you when something’s … Continue reading
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Hacking on OpenStack’s Nova
Like quite a number of other folks, I’ve been lurking on the OpenStack mailing lists since I saw the announcements. Friday, Eric Day put out a call to help with the “get this code into shape” against PEP8 and pylint. … Continue reading
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breaking the private network oasis addiction with OAuth
Most reasonably (and larger) sized operations organizations have a pretty standard networking setup – or at least some close variation on the theme. ARIN wants public IP addresses behind load balancers, so most orgnizations front up their services through software … Continue reading
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the CMDB is dead, long live the CMDB
I work in an environment that has an existing CMDB. Over the past year, I’ve spent a fair number of man hours from my team and an equal number of hours of my own thinking about what it is, what … Continue reading
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Using fabric to deploy a Pinax project
I spent the better part of this morning screwing around with Fabric to get even a basic deployment working correctly with Pinax. I may be doing this horrifically backwards… Since I finally nailed something that worked for me and I … Continue reading
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Building the high spires – enabling elastic cloud computing
Somewhat related to my previous post – I’ve been thinking a lot about packaging lately. At work, I’ve jumped into a team that’s responsible for a whole bunch of infrastructure – envisioning it, building it, and running it. Two months … Continue reading
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Infrastructure (python)
I’m taking some time today to read up on the events and talks at PyCon 2009 happening this past week in Chicago. I’ve been watching a few folks on twitter who are there (John DeRosa and Ted Leung). It’s been … Continue reading
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