DiscoPosse Review: Deploying OpenStack by Ken Pepple

For those who don’t already know Ken Pepple (@ken_pepple on Twitter), this is a great way to introduce yourself to him and to OpenStack Havana. Ken’s documentation and diagrams has been one of the most widely used among many sites for OpenStack so this is great to see his work put into a full deployment … Read more

OpenStack Havana All-in-One Lab: Using the Horizon Dashboard

We’ve come a long way already with our OpenStack Havana All-in-One lab, but we need to get to the customer facing side to really see what OpenStack will look like as we deploy and manage it. This is where we get to the OpenStack Dashboard tool which is known as Horizon. In our first post … Read more

OpenStack Havana All-in-One Lab: Booting your first Nova instance

In the first post (OpenStack Havana All-in-One Lab on VMware Workstation) we built our VM which is running OpenStack Havana from the standard repository on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server using the handy dandy DiscoPosse Github script repo: https://github.com/discoposse/OpenStack-All-in-One-Havana As promised, we need to not just get it running, but to actually test it out and learn … Read more

OpenStack Havana All-in-One lab on VMware Workstation

With all of the popularity of OpenStack in general, and specifically with my other posts on deploying the Rackspace Private Cloud lab on VMware Workstation, I think it’s time for me to update with a new lab build for everyone. This lab build process will be done using VMware Workstation, an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ISO … Read more