This document describes the path to build and install vddk plugins for nbdkit which is required to migrate a virtual machine from VMware
to OpenStack using vpx. Please keep in mind that it requires VMware proprietary library that you must download yourself.
Restic is an open-source backup tool that focuses on providing secure, efficient, and easy-to-use backups. This blog post will show you how to automatically install and configure Restic on a fresh OpenStack VM using user data (cloud-init).
Here’s what you’ll accomplish:
/usr/local/bin./home directory.OpenTofu is an infrastructure as code tool that lets you define both cloud and on-prem resources in human-readable configuration files that you can version, reuse, and share.
We will demonstrate using OpenTofu to build a three node environment. The environment will consist bastion server to connect in via ssh, a webserver to serve web content and a database server. An OpenStack account with appropriate permissions will be needed to build the environment.
This documentation provides a comprehensive guide to installing the free version of aaPanel on an Ubuntu 24 instance running on Rackspace Flex Cloud. aaPanel is a lightweight, user-friendly control panel that simplifies server and website management by offering a graphical interface for handling web services, databases, and security configurations. There is also a paid version of aaPanel which you can purchase through them and install.
Load Balancers are essential in Kubernetes for exposing services to users in a cloud native way by distributing network traffic across multiple nodes, ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and optimal performance for applications.
By integrating with OpenStack’s Load Balancer as a Service (LBaaS) solutions like Octavia, Kubernetes can automate the creation and management of these critical resources with the use of the Openstack Cloud Controller Manager. The controller will identify services of type LoadBalancer and will automagically create cloud Loadbalancers on Openstack Flex with the Kubernetes nodes as members.
Ansible has a wide range of modules available to create and manage resources like openstack flavors, images, keypairs, networks, routers among others on the flex cloud. These modules are available in the Openstack.Cloud ansible collection. In this post we will discuss creating resources on flex cloud using ansible modules.
Talos is a modern operating system designed for Kubernetes, providing a secure and minimal environment for running your clusters. Deploying Talos on OpenStack Flex can be streamlined using Pulumi, an infrastructure as code tool that allows you to define cloud resources using familiar programming languages like TypeScript.
In this guide, we'll walk through setting up the necessary network infrastructure on OpenStack Flex using Pulumi and TypeScript, preparing the groundwork for running Talos.
In this blog post we will discuss how we can use ansible to manage instances running on a flex cloud. It is important to note that while it is possible to create resources on an openstack cloud using ansible itself but the main aim of this blog post is to discuss how we can manage existing instances running within a project with ansible. The examples provided in this blog post are for instances running ubuntu 20.04 LTS as the base OS; these instructions can be adapted to accomodate any other OS as well
The concept of AI agents has emerged as a transformative tool, empowering organizations to create AI systems capable of secure, real-world interactions. By leveraging a language model’s natural language abilities alongside function-calling capabilities, an agentic AI system can interact with external systems, retrieve data, and perform complex tasks autonomously. Enterprises can harness the full potential of AI by designing agent workflows that interact securely with business data, ensuring control and privacy. In this post, we explore building an AI agentic workflow with Meta’s LLaMA 3.1, specifically crafted for interacting with private data from a database. We’ll dive into the technical foundation of agentic systems, examine how function calls operate, and show how to securely deploy all of this within a private cloud, keeping data secure.
As a user we need the ability to monitor servers deployed within a project. This is where datadog comes in. With monitoring services able to automatically register nodes, provide system level metrics, and allow users to create dashboards and alerts.