The age of #monitoringsucks is over, we’re now transitioning into a #monitoringlove period.
That however doesn’t mean al the work is done, we still need to do a lot of work and a lot of people are working on a lot of stuff.
Therefore like last year w…
With 2 of the bigger Open Source projects I care about talking about certifications programs questions pop up again …
Should we certify ourselves ?
So let me tell you about my experiences in getting Open Source related Certifications ..
Over a deca…
As I mentioned in my previous blog post, trying out Ganeti can be cumbersome and I went out and created a platform for testing it out using Vagrant. Now I have a PDF guide that you can use to walk through some of the basics steps of using Ganeti along with even testing a fail-over scenario.… Continue reading →
Ganeti is a very powerful tool but often times people have to look for spare hardware to try it out easily. I also wanted to have a way to easily test new features of Ganeti Web Manager (GWM) and Ganeti Instance Image without requiring additional hardware. While I do have the convenience of having access to hardware… Continue reading →
I`m parsing the responses of the Deploying Drupal survey I started a couple of months ago (more on that later)
One of the questions in the survey is “What is devops” , apparently when you ask a zillion people (ok ok, just a large bunch of Tweeps..), …
Patrick posted his upcoming conference schedule for the next couple of months.
as you can see there are a comple of overlapping conferences 
Conferences I’m speaking at or likely to attend are:
The first week of October I`ll be in the Valley , I`l…
One of the best features of Ganeti is its ability to grow linearly by adding new servers easily. We recently purchased a new server to expand our ever growing production cluster and needed to rebalance cluster. Adding and expanding the cluster consisted of the following steps: Installing the base OS on the new node Adding… Continue reading →
Along with the rest of the OSU Open Source Lab crew (including students), I was invited to the grand opening of Facebook’s new datacenter yesterday in Prineville, Oregon. We were lucky enough to get a private tour by Facebook’s Senior Open Source Manager, David Recordon. I was very impressed with the facility on many levels.… Continue reading →
I’ve been asked quite a bit about how I do our network setup with Ganeti. I admit that it did take me a bit to figure out a sane way to do it in Gentoo. Unfortunately (at least in baselayout-1.x) bringing up VLANs with bridge interfaces in Gentoo is rather a pain. What I’m about… Continue reading →
I’m going to be speaking at SCALE 9x this year and giving a session on Scalable Virtualization with Ganeti on Saturday February 26th at 6pm. I will be going over the basics of what Ganeti is and how you use it. This session will be very similar to the ones I gave last year at Open Source… Continue reading →
