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16th May 2013

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OpenLDAP: A comparison of back-mdb and back-hdb performance

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One of the biggest changes to OpenLDAP in years has made its way into the latest OpenLDAP 2.4 releases, and that is a brand new backend named “back-mdb”.  This new backend leverages the Lightning Memory-Mapped Database…

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13th May 2013

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Introducing Micro QA

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I have devoted my last 2 years to testing Eucalyptus. In that period the QA team and I have gone through many iterations of tools to find those that make us most efficient. It has become a never ending and…

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29th April 2013

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Demo of Eucalyptus hotness: 3.3 milestone 6

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Our demo day for milestone 6 was yesterday, and it was choice. We’re at feature completeness at this point, and we’re now on final approach for release sometime Soon-ish, as soon as we shake out all the code…

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6th April 2013

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Big Data on the Cloud using Ansible, RHadoop, AppScale, and AWS/EucalyptusBackground

Big Data has been a hot topic over the last few years.  Big Data on public clouds, such…View Post

Big Data on the Cloud using Ansible, RHadoop, AppScale, and AWS/Eucalyptus

Background

Big Data has been a hot topic over the last few years.  Big Data on public clouds, such…

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4th April 2013

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What’s new in Ansible 1.1 for AWS and Eucalyptus users?

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I thought the Ansible 1.0 development cycle was busy but 1.1 is crammed full of orchestration goodness.  On Tuesday, 1.1 was released and you can read more about it here: http://blog.ansibleworks.com/2013…

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1st April 2013

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Using Ansible to Deploy Neo4j HA Cluster on AWS/EucalyptusAs a follow-up to my last Neo4j, AWS/Eucalyptus blog, this entry demonstrates another great example…View Post

Using Ansible to Deploy Neo4j HA Cluster on AWS/Eucalyptus

As a follow-up to my last Neo4j, AWS/Eucalyptus blog, this entry demonstrates another great example…

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5th March 2013

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Exclusive: Startup AnsibleWorks pitches open-source IT configuration, deployment tool http://wp.me/sii7d-473

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A couple of former Red Hat (s rhat) veterans think there’s an easier way to configure, deploy and manage IT across an organization and founded AnsibleWorks to attack that problem.

Systems administrators and developers want one tool…

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5th March 2013

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Deploying Eucalyptus via Ansible playbook(s) http://wp.me/sii7d-470

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The first cut of the Ansible deployment playbook for deploying Eucalyptus private clouds is ready.  I’ve merged the first “release” into the master branch here:…

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1st March 2013

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Run Appscale on Eucalyptus http://wp.me/sii7d-467

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Cloud computing is the use of computing resources (hardware and software) that are delivered as a service over a network (typically the Internet). - Wikipedia

According to Wikipediacurrently there are few popular service…

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25th February 2013

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Using Scalr for Automation of your Eucalyptus Cloud http://wp.me/sii7d-462

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Introduction

I have been using Eucalyptus heavily (as a quality engineer it is my day to day) for the past 1.5 years. I know the ins and the outs of system and am constantly tracking new features and bug fixes…

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