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Community Participation in Crowbar 2.0 Efforts
I’ve laid out the Dell Crowbar team‘s technical objectives for Crowbar 2.0. Now it’s time to lay out how we plan to involve the Crowbar community. We welcome community participation and contributions...
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The real workloads begin: Crowbar’s Sophomore Year
Given Crowbar‘s frenetic Freshman year, it’s impossible to predict everything that Crowbar could become. I certainly aspire to see the project gain a stronger developer community and the seeds of this...
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Ops “Late Binding” is critical best practice and key to Crowbar differentiation
Late binding is a programming term that I’ve commandeered for Crowbar’s DevOps design objectives. We believe that late binding is a best practice for CloudOps. Understanding this concept is turning out...
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Open Community Access to Crowbar 2 Efforts
We’re moving along on the Crowbar2 refactoring work (`/release/rails3anddb/master` branch for now) and it’s time to start making it easier for you to participate if you are interested. We are planning...
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Crowbar 2.0 Design Summit Notes (+ open weekly meetings starting)
I could not be happier with the results Crowbar collaborators and my team at Dell achieved around the 1st Crowbar design summit. We had great discussions and even better participation. The attendees...
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Why doesn’t Chef call them “bowls” instead of roles?
The extended Crowbar team (my employer Dell and community) recently had a bit of a controversy heated discussion over the renaming of “proposals” to “configurations.” It was pretty clear that the term...
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OpenStack Summit: Let’s talk DevOps, Fog, Upgrades, Crowbar & Dell
If you are coming to the OpenStack summit in San Diego next week then please find me at the show! I want to hear from you about the Foundation, community, OpenStack deployments, Crowbar and anything...
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Crowbar releases for OpenStack Essex and Folsom
On the eve of the OpenStack design summit, it’s worth noting that the Crowbar team at Dell cut our final Essex release (aka Betty) last week. We’ve also committed the initial Folsom deployment scripts...
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Interview Transcript about OpenStack, Foundation, Dell & Crowbar
Rafael Knuth (@RafaelKnuth with Dell as EMEA Social Media Community Manager) has set an ambitious objective to interview all 24 of the OpenStack Foundation Board members. I have the privilege of...
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double Block Head with OpenStack+Equallogic & Crowbar+Ceph
Whew….Yesterday, Dell announced TWO OpenStack block storage capabilities (Equallogic & Ceph) for our OpenStack Essex Solution (I’m on the Dell OpenStack/Crowbar team) and community edition. The...
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5 things keeping DevOps from playing well with others (Chef, Crowbar and...
Since my earliest days on the OpenStack project, I’ve wanted to break the cycle on black box operations with open ops. With the rise of community driven DevOps platforms like Opscode Chef and...
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Crowbar and our Pivot (or, how we slipped and shipped Grizzly)
My team at Dell uses Lean process because it forces us to be honest about making hard choices. Our recent decision to pivot back to Crowbar 1.x for the OpenStack Grizzly release is a great example how...
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OpenStack steps toward Interopability with Temptest, RAs & RefStack.org
I’m a cautious supporter of OpenStack leading with implementation (over API specification); however, it clearly has risks. OpenStack has the benefit of many live sites operating at significant scale....
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Crowbar cuts OpenStack Grizzly (“pebbles”) branch & seeks community testing
The Crowbar team (I work for Dell) continues to drive towards “zero day” deployment readiness. Our Hadoop deployments are tracking Dell | Cloudera Hadoop-powered releases within a month and our...
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Connecting the dots: Dell stays course on OpenStack private
When it comes to OpenStack, I don’t just work for Dell: I’m the technical lead for our OpenStack-powered private Cloud Solution and an elected director to the OpenStack Foundation board. Frankly, the...
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Update a pull request from git command line
Sometimes we just need to feed the SEO gods… in this case, I could not find the simple git command line to update a pull request that I had in flight. I was looking for the following: git push...
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Crowbar lays it all out: RAID & BIOS configs officially open sourced
Today, Dell (my employer) announced a plethora of updates to our open source derived solutions (OpenStack and Hadoop). These solutions include the latest bits (Grizzly and Cloudera) for each project....
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Crowbar 2 Status Update > I can feel the rumble of the engines
Crowbar Two While I’ve been more muted on our Crowbar 2 progress since our pivot back to CB1 for Grizzly, it has been going strong and steady. We took advantage of the extra time to do some real...
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OpenStack Neutron using Linux Bridges (technical explanation)
Apparently this is “Showcase Dell OpenStack/Crowbar Team Member Week” because today I’m proxy positioning for Dell OpenStack engineer Chris Dearborn. Chris has been leading our OpenStack Neutron...
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OpenStack Havana provides foundation for XXaaS you need
It’s been a long time, and a lot of summits, since I posted how OpenStack was ready for workloads (back in Cactus!). We’ve seen remarkable growth of both the platform technology and the community...
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