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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...