A couple months ago one of our customers migrated their production environment to a new Cloud provider. They still needed live access to portions of their legacy system, but wanted downsize and decommission a subset of about 500+ Virtual Machines to save cost. The process of decommissioning/resizing each VM was […]
automation
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Greetings mere mortal! In today’s experiment I attempt to provide a practical guide to IT automation for the mere mortal just starting their automation journey. Check out the code used in the video here: https://github.com/dvntstph/awx-opens…
I’ve been obsessed with Openstack for a couple years now because it allows me to build scenarios and learn from them very quickly with very little effort. I’ve always tried to share this with my friends and coworkers so that they too can partake in this accelerated learning experience. Openstack […]
Greetings mere mortal! In this snippet I’ll be building a 6 node Openstack cluster using Juju Charms and Metal as a Service. I share some tweaks and hacks you can do with scaling Nova Computer and Ceph Object Storage Daemons. I’ll also do a walk through of some of the […]