The Ansible community libvirt collection provides a method to interact with QEMU and LXC (if that interests you, please come and join us!). Along with support for libvirt tasks such […]
OpenStack Swift is a most brilliant object store and I have built a few clusters over the last couple of years using SwiftStack’s product, which is really excellent. However, I […]
I do a lot of dev work using my Ansible virtual infrastructure role to spin up various KVM guests across multiple hosts using YAML based inventories. I’ve just put my […]
TripleO based OpenStack deployments use an OpenStack all-in-one node (undercloud) to automate the build and management of the actual cloud (overcloud) using native services such as Heat and Ironic. Roles […]
The Ansible Hardening role from the OpenStack project is a great way to secure Linux boxes in a reliable, repeatable and customisable manner. It was created by former colleague of […]
Setting up OpenStack Ansible (OSA) All-in-one (AIO) behind a proxy requires a couple of settings, but it should work fine (we’ll also configure the wider system). There are two types […]