CNF/VNF Under-the-hood: Quality of Service (QoS) in SDN
Relevant technologies like DPDK or SmartNICs are starting to come up lately to bring better performance options to CNF/VNF instances. Sharing a Linux kernel among other applications, is not good enough...
View ArticleCNF/VNF Under-the-hood: EVPN saves the day for Layer-2 services
Let’s say you need a more scalable layer-2 solution for your VMs and containers. You can do some Linux bridges or maybe use OVS and try some VxLAN/GRE encapsulation between Hypervisors. Containers is a...
View ArticleHow to build a art painting canvas with a cheap drop cloth – getting ready
I’ve been taking a break of technology and doing some art painting. You can check some of my art work in my instagram. I have working on paper blocks and murals, but now it’s the time to start doing...
View ArticleBlindfolded lady in City Council
Mike and Troy, when they were hanging out on my place, asked me to do some art work like I’ve done on my place, in their just acquired restaurant. The City Council Restaurant & Bar. My first...
View ArticleEnterprise cloud managed services: Daring moves to boost your offer
Some moves that I think you should have in mind if you want a strong portfolio of Cloud Managed Services for the Enterprise segment. A market that is growing almost exponentially every year, then it’s...
View ArticleSigned URLs #AWS #ansible filters
Based on “Sharing #AWS S3 files for ansible thru Signed URLs” and URL split filter for ansible I was editing my config file to download images thru ansible once or twice a week. Time to automate that....
View Articleipcalc #ansible filter – manage floating ip ranges for packet.net
Post based on https://github.com/digineo/ansible-ipcalc I’ve been working many times with floating IPs for my SDWAN demos and deployments. It’s been some kind of annoying to change the configuration...
View ArticleHappy 2018, and by the way, SDWAN is growing bad…
I’ve been working more than two years in Nuage Networks traveling all around Americas (North, Central and South. And BTW, Mexicans are North-Americans. Please, don’t tell me otherwise. ok? ). Now, we...
View ArticleSharing #AWS S3 files for ansible thru Signed URLs
Hi Guys, I love automation. However, some much automation should get along with a secure way to share files like qcow2 images and rpm. I am doing that on my own and I would like to share what I’ve...
View ArticleSDN/SDWAN lab on-premises within 60min #Nuage
Create your SDWAN lab on-premises with ansible is a nicer experience. I have this new playbook that will help you. So far, it works on just one KVM host. Nuage instances will be accessed via ssh using...
View Article#Nuage metadata agent configuration and troubleshooting for OpenStack #Mitaka
Hi there, Sure you’ll find this post very useful. A very good feature on Nuage is you can replace the sh*** metadata proxy service in Neutron with nuage-metadata-agent. However, it’s not a easy way to...
View ArticleStart provisioning on #OpenStack thru #ansible in a few steps
Boring to provision again and again thru horizon or command-line on your openstack. Well, here you have a refreshing post. Start doing it with ansible. Step ONE: Prepare your container Build and...
View ArticleTest #openstack #performance with #rally in a few steps
Before docker, install rally was… hmmm Sh***y too many dependencies. I screwed my OpenStack controller once. Then started to use an external server. Now, I can even run that on my laptop with docker...
View ArticleWindows 2012R2 on KVM
Not a fan. Some app requires windows though. I want to stay with KVM on Centos. Then @hballesteros and I figured (after some saint google search) to install windows loading the virtio drives from a...
View ArticleMulti-Host Networking using Consul, Docker Libnetwork and Nuage SDN
First time I’ve heard about Consul. Anyway. I think it’s a nice way to try multi-host on a overlay network. Very clean and simple. Waiting to see the same for Kubernetes. Definitely I will try this....
View ArticleSingle Host Networking with Docker Libnetwork and Nuage SDN
Mostafa. Thanks very much. Nice job. This is important update how Containers works with Nuage. Seems also a more clean way that before. Using –driver –ipam-driver brings network details from nuage we...
View ArticleShorten your github URL (git.io)
Shorten your URL to make it easy to work. Actually, I post this to get that info when I need it right away. I use it to execute some scripts to install my apps: curl -fsSL https://git.io/vQkzV >...
View ArticleAnsible playbook and roles to install #kubernetes with nuage (version 1.5)
Provide an Ansible playbook that implements the steps described in Installing Kubernetes on Linux with kubeadm for version 1.5 (check at the bottom of the kubeadm tutorial) Check more details at...
View ArticleeBay, a massive k8s and OpenStack ref case, releasing tessmaster to...
Based on their words “K8s is app centric as openstack is Infra centric”. eBay faced many challenges to run K8s. It was hard to make them work seamesslessly. Challenges like multi-tenancy, app security,...
View ArticleSecond Generation Cloud #os17
Over OpenStack Summit Boston and based on Bryce’s words, we are facing the second generation cloud. Virtualizing everything, not just compute. Also, a new trend called “remotely managed private cloud”...
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