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2018
2017
Ensuring keepalived starts after the network is ready
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After a recent OpenStack-Ansible (OSA) deployment on CentOS, I found that keepalived was not starting properly at boot time:
Changes in RHEL 7 Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 1, Release 3
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The latest release of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) was published last week.
Import RPM repository GPG keys from other keyservers temporarily
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I’ve been working through some patches to OpenStack-Ansible lately to optimize how we configure yum repositories in our deployments.
Enable AppArmor on a Debian Jessie cloud image
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I merged some initial Debian support into the openstack-ansible-security role and ran into an issue enabling AppArmor.
Fixing OpenStack noVNC consoles that ignore keyboard input
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I opened up a noVNC console to a virtual machine today in my OpenStack cloud but found that the console wouldn’t take keyboard input.
OpenStack Summit Boston 2017 Recap
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The OpenStack Summit wrapped up today in Boston and it was a great week!
OpenStack-Ansible networking on CentOS 7 with systemd-networkd
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Although OpenStack-Ansible doesn’t fully support CentOS 7 yet, the support is almost ready.
RHEL 7 STIG v1 updates for openstack-ansible-security
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DISA’s final release of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) came out a few weeks ago and it has plenty of improvements and changes.
OpenStack isn’t dead. It’s boring. That’s a good thing.
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NOTE: The opinions shared in this post are mine alone and are not related to my employer in any way.
What I’m looking forward to at IBM Interconnect 2017
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IBM Interconnect 2017 is coming up next month in Las Vegas.
systemd-networkd on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial)
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My OpenStack cloud depends on Ubuntu, and the latest release of OpenStack-Ansible (what I use to deploy OpenStack) requires Ubuntu 16.
augenrules fails with “rule exists” when loading rules into auditd
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When I came back from the holiday break, I found that the openstack-ansible-security role wasn’t passing tests any longer.
2016
Talk Recap: Holistic Security for OpenStack Clouds
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Thanks to everyone who attended my talk at the OpenStack Summit in Barcelona!
What’s Happening in OpenStack-Ansible (WHOA) – September 2016
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Welcome to the fourth post in the series of What’s Happening in OpenStack-Ansible (WHOA) posts that I’m assembling each month.
Getting ready for IBM Edge 2016
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IBM Edge 2016 starts next week in Las Vegas with an emphasis on changing how we think about technology.
What’s Happening in OpenStack-Ansible (WHOA) – August 2016
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Welcome to the third post in the series of What’s Happening in OpenStack-Ansible (WHOA) posts that I’m assembling each month.
Preventing critical services from deploying on the same OpenStack host
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OpenStack’s compute service, nova, manages all of the virtual machines within a OpenStack cloud.
OpenStack instances come online with multiple network ports attached
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I ran into an interesting problem recently in my production OpenStack deployment that runs the Mitaka release.
Setting up a telnet handler for OpenStack Zuul CI jobs in GNOME 3
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The OpenStack Zuul system has gone through some big changes recently, and one of those changes is around how you monitor a running CI job.
What’s Happening in OpenStack-Ansible (WHOA) – July 2016
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This post is the second installment in the series of What’s Happening in OpenStack-Ansible (WHOA) posts that I’m assembling each month.
Join me on Thursday to talk about OpenStack LBaaS and security hardening
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If you want to learn more about load balancers and security hardening in OpenStack clouds, join me on Thursday for the Rackspace Office Hours podcast1!
Talk recap: The friendship of OpenStack and Ansible
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The 2016 Red Hat Summit is underway in San Francisco this week and I delivered a talk with Robyn Bergeron earlier today.
My list of must-see sessions at Red Hat Summit 2016
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The Red Hat Summit starts this week in San Francisco, and a few folks asked me about the sessions that they shouldn’t miss.
What’s Happening in OpenStack-Ansible (WHOA) – June 2016
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The world of OpenStack moves quickly.
Automated security hardening with Ansible: May updates
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Lots of work has gone into the openstack-ansible-security Ansible role since I delivered a talk about it last month at the OpenStack Summit in Austin.
Test Fedora 24 Beta in an OpenStack cloud
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Although there are a few weeks remaining before Fedora 24 is released, you can test out the Fedora 24 Beta release today!
Troubleshooting OpenStack network connectivity
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NOTE: This post is a work in progress.
Getting started with gertty
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When you’re ready to commit code in an OpenStack project, your patch will eventually land in a Gerrit queue for review.
Talk Recap: Automated security hardening with OpenStack-Ansible
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Today is the second day of the OpenStack Summit in Austin and I offered up a talk on host security hardening in OpenStack clouds.
OpenStack Summit in Austin is almost here!
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OpenStack comes home to Austin on Monday for the OpenStack Summit!
2015
supernova 2.2.0 is available
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Thanks to all of the contributors that helped make a new release of supernova possible!
What I learned while securing Ubuntu
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The blog posts have slowed down a bit lately because I’ve been heads down on a security project at work.
supernova is coming to Fedora repositories
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If you use Fedora, you will soon be able to install supernova via a Fedora package!
Making things more super with supernova 2.0
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I started supernova a little over three years ago with the idea of making it easier to use novaclient.
2014
Enjoy supernova 1.0.0
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The first supernova commit to GitHub appeared just over two years ago.
Testing grouped environment support for supernova
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I’ve added some grouped environment support for supernova tonight.
Small update for supernova 0.9.6
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A supernova user ran into a tough problem where supernova didn’t seem to obey a configuration within the supernova configuration file.
2013
A humble farewell to Seth Vidal
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I was shocked to see Robyn Bergeron’s email today about Seth Vidal’s passing.
Red Hat Summit 2013 Recap
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The 2013 Red Hat Summit was my second one and I enjoyed it more than last year.
2012
Reaching a new milestone and making some big changes
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This is my 500th post on this blog!
Relocating a python virtual environment
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Python’s virtual environment capability is extremely handy for situations where you don’t want the required modules for a particular python project to get mixed up with your system-wide installed modules.
Proud to be a part of OpenStack at Rackspace
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Troy Toman delivered a great keynote this morning about OpenStack and how Rackspace uses it:
Connecting to OpenStack Swift with Cyberduck using swauth
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Connecting to an OpenStack Swift instance that is using swauth for authentication is quite easy within Cyberduck on the Mac.
Red Hat Summit 2012: Thursday
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Thursday has felt like the busiest, most jam-packed day of the week.
Keep tabs on OpenStack development with OpenStack Watch on Twitter
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It’s no secret that I’m a fan of Twitter and OpenStack.
supernova: Manage multiple OpenStack nova environments with ease
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While working on multiple nova (OpenStack Compute) environments at Rackspace, I found myself thrashing between multiple terminal windows where I had exported environment variables for python-novaclient to use.
OpenStack bleeding-edge Python packages are now available
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I sometimes enjoy living on the edge occasionally and that sometimes means I keep up with OpenStack changes commit by commit.
2011
Tracing a build through OpenStack Compute (Nova)
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My work at Rackspace has changed a bit in the last few weeks and I’ve shifted from managing a team of engineers to a full technical focus on OpenStack Nova.