The rule of the “cloud” has already been established and now we have multiple vendors fighting for market share. Many companies started relying on the cloud and seeking more and more automation and could services. It looks easy, you just select a cloud provider, use its services and you have several virtual machines or containers […]
I’m not a big NFS fan ever since I worked as a Linux/Unix administrator way back in the good old days. Sometimes when the NFS server hung, lost network connectivity, or something else happened all clients that had mounts from the NFS completely blocked waiting for it to come back up, because it is so […]
Backup is an essential part of IT infrastructure management. Having HA solutions, RAIDs etc. doesn’t free you from the need for backup. In case of a human error all those techniques will not save you, only the backup will.
In my previous blog post, I was discussing how to monitor RabbitMQ as a centralized message Q of Openstack. Well, that’s quite important but the end goal of having a cloud is the instance on top of the machine. Most of you and especially the infrastructure guys who dig into monitoring will know what are the most […]
Last year we focused on Openstack technology and the projects behind it. We decided to stress on it and move our scope in that direction because of the rich features and flexibility that it provides. But as we know great power comes with great responsibility.