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Eucalyptus 3.1 Beta is now on Github!

Reblogged from Greg DeKoenigsberg Speaks: It’s taken a while, but the move is complete.  The source code for Eucalyptus 3.1 Beta is open and publicly available in Github.  It’s actually been there for...

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Eucalyptus Recipes Project

Automation and configuration management is a big part of any successful cloud deployment. Whether on AWS, Eucalyptus or another cloud provider, having services that can be easily spun up and down with...

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Adding Non-free Drivers to a Debian Netboot initrd

When working on an IaaS product, there is a constant need to have an easy and quick way to re-provision bare metal quickly. At Eucalyptus we utilize  Cobbler and a home grown solution that allow us to...

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Notes on using expert_recipe in Debian/Ubuntu Preseed Files

When working with IaaS easily provisioning bare metal is always needed. So, Eucalyptus uses preseed files to setup Debian and Ubuntu servers for testing software, supporting customers, and education...

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Puppet module for euca2ools

I know that I’ve been lacking lately on the recipes front. I’m trying to get started so I’ve completed a little project, create a Puppet module for euca2ools. Now this module is quite simple as it...

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Get expert_recipe, mdraid, LVM, GPT and grub2 Playing Together on Ubuntu...

Hard drives are growing and growing. You can now get 3 TB hard drives and have a ton of storage in each server. But then you notice that your current preseed files are crashing when attempting to...

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Single System Test Cloud

UPDATE: I’ve posted an easier way to do this. Check out my other post Single System Test Cloud, Take 2 for the instructions. When first trying out Eucalyptus, the requirement of having two systems at a...

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Single System Test Cloud, Take 2

Testing Eucalyptus should be easy. In Single System Test Cloud, testing a cloud was made easier by removing the requirement of having at least two systems. But, it still adds unnecessary complexity by...

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Add Eucalyptus Account and User Names to Your BASH Prompt

At Eucalyptus, IT tends to have a bunch of different accounts for the clouds that we run. Most of the work we do with these clouds happens from the Cloud Controller of each cloud and it can become...

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Shoes for the Cobbler's kids

Reblogged from Greg DeKoenigsberg Speaks: We’re big fans of the Cobbler project here at Eucalyptus. We think it’s the best tool in the open source world for bare metal provisioning.  We’ve invested in...

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Setting up rsyslog and logrotate for the new Eucalyptus Console

The latest release of Eucalyptus has introduced a new user user console. The user console is written in Python and is using the logging module that can easily be setup to work with rsyslog. It even...

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Automating a chef-solo Installation on a CentOS 5 Instance

Chef is a tool used for configuration management of bare metal and virtual systems. Chef has a client/server model as well as a standalone tool that is very similar to the tools from Puppet Labs. (Want...

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