Replacing the built-in Open edX forum with a suitable alternative

Posted on Thu 02 February 2017 in hints-and-kinks • Tagged with Open edX

Open edX comes with a built-in discussion forum service. Many Open edX users find this service less than optimal: it is the only edX service to require Ruby, it depends on a Ruby version that is outdated and no longer receives security updates (although a fix for that is on …


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The Dos and Don'ts for Ceph for OpenStack

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

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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Wiping and resetting your SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar configuration

Posted on Tue 05 July 2016 in hints-and-kinks • Tagged with OpenStack, SUSE

Note: This article was originally written for SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6, and updated for SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7. It may not apply to later SUSE OpenStack Cloud releases.

If you're using SUSE OpenStack Cloud, you may want to erase and reinstall your cloud deployment a few times during the testing …


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Pacemaker's best-kept secret: crm_report

Posted on Sat 30 January 2016 in hints-and-kinks • Tagged with Pacemaker

Pacemaker has an excellent, but little-known, error reporting facility: crm_report.


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Hosting a web site in radosgw

Posted on Tue 26 January 2016 in hints-and-kinks • Tagged with Ceph

If you're familiar with web site hosting on Amazon S3, which is a simple and cheap way to host a static web site, you might be wondering whether or not you can do the same in Ceph radosgw.

The short answer is you can't. Bucket Website is listed as Not …


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