openstack

If you are new to the cloud environment, You should know that how to use the key pairs to access the instances. The procedure remains same when you go for the public clouds like Amazon EC2 or Private clouds like Openstack. The ssh keys consists two parts. The first one is  public key which is pushed […]

This article will demonstrate that how to launch the first Openstack instance. In the previous articles ,we have setup the openstack software and gone through the openstack dashboard functionalities.  In an order to launch the openstack instances, first we need to create the network security group, rules & key pairs  to access the instances from other […]

This article will help you to understand the functionality of the openstack dashboard. Dashboard will be used by administrators  and  tenant.  For tenant or user , it will act like a self service portal where they can launch the instance , allocate the storage and configure the network resource within the limits set by administrator.  Administrator […]

This article will demonstrate that how to stop and start the Openstack services on Ubuntu when you have done the installation through the devstack method. If you followed the devstack method for deploying the openstack, there are some set of scripts will be available to perform the stop and start openstack services without much pain. […]

The whole world is buzzing on the cloud and cloud related technologies. Would you like to know the history of the cloud ?  Let’s see. The private cloud has been started with Eucalyptus & Opennebula around 2003-2008 period and these both cloud software are almost similar to Amazon AWS (Pubic cloud).  In 2009, NASA require cloud computing […]

Let’s talk about Openstack  architecture and Components . In the last article ,we have seen the history of private cloud softwares and Openstack. OpenStack is a cloud computing platform that controls large number of  compute nodes , storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, all managed through a dashboard(Horizon) that gives administrators control while empowering their users to provision […]