The Dos and Don'ts for Ceph for OpenStack

Posted on Mon 28 November 2016 in hints-and-kinks • Tagged with OpenStack, Ceph • 9 min read

Ceph and OpenStack are an extremely useful and highly popular combination. Still, new Ceph/OpenStack deployments frequently come with easily avoided shortcomings — we’ll help you fix them!


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High Availability and Disaster Recovery in OpenStack

Posted on Mon 07 November 2016 in presentations • Tagged with OpenStack, High Availability • 1 min read

From the 2016 International Industry-Academia Workshop on Cloud Reliability and Resilience in Berlin. An OpenStack primer followed by a closer focus on OpenStack’s HA & DR feature set.

About 35 minutes.


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Heat and its Alternatives: Application Deployment in OpenStack

Posted on Thu 27 October 2016 in presentations • Tagged with OpenStack, Heat, Ansible, Juju, Cloudify • 1 min read

From the 2016 OpenStack Summit in Barcelona. A comparison of tools for virtual systems orchestration in OpenStack.


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CephFS and LXC: Container High Availability and Scalability, Redefined

Posted on Thu 06 October 2016 in presentations • Tagged with Ceph, LXC • 1 min read

An overview of applying CephFS to LXC containers.


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Fragile development: Why Scrum sucks, and what you should be doing instead (full talk)

Posted on Sat 20 August 2016 in presentations • Tagged with Conference • 1 min read

My presentation from FrOSCon 2016. The lengthier version of the Ignite talk I did a few months before, at OpenStack Israel.


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