Cloud

Creating your private cloud using OpenStack – (6) – The Networking service

We’ve finished the last post with a working Compute (Nova) service on the controller and compute node. While only the compute(s) actually run compute resources, Nova is also running on the controller for the management tasks, while libvirt is(…)

Creating your private cloud using OpenStack – (5) – The Compute service

We’re now coming closer to the final setup of the OpenStack test environment. Again, looking at the minimum services we need, there are only three of them left: Keystone: Identity service(…)

Creating your private cloud using OpenStack – (4) – The Image and Placement services

By the end of the last post we finally got the first OpenStack service up and running: Keystone, the Identity Service. Going back to the list of services we need at(…)

Creating your private cloud using OpenStack – (3) – Keystone, the Identity Service

By the end of the last post, we finished with preparing the controller and compute node for being ready to deploy the first OpenStack service: Keystone, the Identity Service. Before we dive into the details(…)

Creating your private cloud using OpenStack – (2) – Preparing the nodes

In the introduction post we’ve briefly looked at some options you have available when you want to build your own private cloud. In this post we’re going to start our journey into OpenStack by preparing(…)

Automate your Deployments in Azure with Terraform!

Terraform is a strong open-source declarative and platform agnostic infrastructure as code (IaC) tool developed by HashiCorp. It facilitates the deployment and whole management of infrastructure. In this hands on blog I will show you how you can use(…)

Creating your private cloud using OpenStack – (1) – Introduction

While public clouds are a trend since several years now, some companies are also looking into self hosted solutions to build a private cloud. Some do this because of costs, others do this because they don’t want to be(…)

Offloading PostgreSQL Backups to Azure Blob Storage Using PGBackRest, Managed Identity, and SAS Tokens

Introduction One of the nice things with cloud providers is the low costs of their storage. Whenever you want to optimize your long-term backups and push them on Azure, you might face a wall of questions on how to(…)

ExaCC OCI integration with OEM 13.5 Cloud Control installed On-premises.

Introduction I wrote this article to show how you can integrate Legacy OEM with your Cloud environment in this case Oracle ExaCC.To have overall view on your Exadata X9M Cloud Infrastructure, statistics related to CPU/Memory/ASM Storage usage. Your on(…)

OEM Cloud Control Release update to 13.5.0.23

Introduction This is upgrade procedure to release update from 07 Aug 2024. 13.5.0.23 Its also one of prerequisites for integrating OEM with OCI Exadata Cloud@Customer solution available on my other post under this link:(…)