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OpenKilda: An Open-Source OpenFlow Controller In a world where most scalable technologies have learned through hard experience that distributing functionality and data processing is the only viable way to handle...
A quick start guide covering manual Puppet Server installation, PuppetDB deployment and basic Puppet usage. Puppet Server Installation Install the Puppet Server: # yum -y install https://yum.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs-release-pc1-el-7.noarch.rpm # yum makecache...
Recently I installed an OpenStack (Mitaka) with all core services and other “optional” components, e.g. LBaaS, FWaaS, VPNaaS, Manila. Everything worked fine except I couldn’t log in to the dashboard with...
Tempest is the official OpenStack test suite that runs integration tests against an OpenStack cloud to validate its healthiness and find out its (potential) problems. Tempest contains a list of...
Now that you’ve upgraded Ceph from Luminous to Nautilus, what happens if a disk fails or the administrator needs to convert from filestore to bluestore? The OSD needs to be...
Grafana is a graphing, dashboarding and alerting tool which can take data from a large number of sources and can send alerts to various locations such as email, PagerDuty, Slack...
The Software Defined Networking (SDN) technology landscape has evolved quickly over the last two years. Due to the developing nature of the SDN controller space, there is a plethora of...
This “How to Install ONAP on Kubernetes using Cloudify” tutorial covers the process required to install a Kubernetes cluster using the Cloudify orchestrator and installing ONAP atop the Kubernetes cluster using ONAP’s Operations...
StackBuffet can be seen as an anti-distro, a personalised distro or an OpenStack-CI-as-a-service. Here’s how it works: You select a starting point from the official OpenStack repo, eg 2015.1 You...
Installing OpenStack on OpenStack and enabling external network on the upper layer of OpenStack. For testing I need to install an All-in-One OpenStack in a VM on our bare-metal OpenStack....
What is CoreOS and Why? CoreOS is an open-source lightweight operating system based on the Linux kernel and is designed to provide infrastructure for clustered deployments. Microservices architecture have their...
Our Open Source Software Defined Networking (SDN) Controller comparison continues with Ryu. Ryu is a very different proposition to the other options being put forward. Although boasting a core set...
A Workload migration engine designed to automatically move existing workloads and virtual machines from various previous generation virtualisation platforms on to OpenStack. When organisations move from their existing virtualised infrastructures...
In a previous blog post about getting started with neutron, we glanced through workings of OpenStack neutron. This post will allow readers to understand the details of Neutron. As part of...
There is a special place in our hearts at Aptira for the OpenStack Object Storage project/service known as Swift. Many of us had prior experience with it when we came...
It has been an interesting week. Without any fanfare, I quietly introduced our Machine Learning code to the production RabbitMQ cluster for the first time. Hoping to improve our ability to detect problems with...
Our Open Source Software Defined Networking (SDN) Controller comparison continues with OpenDayLight (ODL). ODL is more focused on the SD-LAN and Cloud integration spaces. OpenDaylight is a modular open platform...
The final Open Source Software Defined Networking (SDN) Controller to be compared in this series is Faucet. Built on top of Ryu, Faucet is a lightweight SDN Controller adding a...
We begin our Open Source Software Defined Networking (SDN) Controller comparison with the Open Network Operating System (ONOS). ONOS is designed to be distributed, stable and scalable with a focus...
Storage types Storage is found in many parts of the OpenStack cloud environment. It is important to understand the distinction between ephemeral storage and persistent storage: Ephemeral storage – If...
Now that Prometheus has been installed and configured, we’ll discuss some of the Exporters. In Prometheus, the data providers (agents) are called Exporters. You can write your own exporter/custom collector...
What is OpenKilda? Telstra’s VP of Product Architecture, Jon Vestal, discussed this in the Automation Forum at Layer123’s SDN NFV World Congress 2018 in Den Hague. Jon presents Telstra’s dynamic...
One of the key aspects of designing modern applications is to have an interface defined as Application Programming Interfaces (API) that allows businesses to securely expose content or services to...
Late last night I was caught with a flash of inspiration and wondered to myself how hard it would be to get OpenStack working on FreeBSD if Oracle could do it...
Understanding OpenFlow rules OpenVswitch (OVS) is a virtual switch that connects virtual machines together using virtual links and ports. Traditionally this would be done by a physical switch over physical...
Critical Differences Between Deploying SD-LAN and SD-WAN in the SDN World As we saw in part 1 of this series, there are challenges with country-scale SD-WANs in addition to those faced by their more data centre focused SD-LAN counterparts. This post...
Ceph Nautilus was released earlier in the year and it has many new features. In CentOS, the Ceph Nautilus packages depend on CentOS 7.6 packages. Since we are using local...
Allowing Path Computation Engine (PCE) scalability without impact to the switch control plane. As we saw in parts 1 and 2 of this series, large scale global network implementations involve complexities of...
Our Open Source Software Defined Networking (SDN) Controller comparison continues with OpenKilda. OpenKilda is a Telstra developed OpenFlow based SDN controller currently being used in production to control the large...
Welcome to part two of the series of Aptira blogs where we explore the potential of running OpenStack on FreeBSD! At the end of part one, I mentioned that the next...
Tempest is the official OpenStack test suite that runs integration tests against an OpenStack cloud to validate its healthiness and find out its (potential) problems. It contains a list of test...
Things are busy here in Aptiraville. One thing we have been working on recently is upgrading our business intelligence platform, ADAPT. We originally ran this platform for our customer, Mercurial, on our VMware...
One of the biggest problems many organisations face when moving to OpenStack is the migration of VMs running on traditional platforms (VMWare, Hyper-V, etc) to OpenStack. We’ve spent a lot...
Understanding Neutron can be challenging if you are new to a Networking background or OpenStack. In this series of posts, we will try to cover OpenStack networking component in details....
This final part of our Software Defined Networking (SDN) Controller comparison series includes an in-depth evaluation and product rating for each of the most popular Open Source SDN controllers in...
Prometheus is an open source, next-generation monitoring and time series system that collects metrics from agents running on target hosts, storing the collected data onto the Prometheus server to be...
