Kalle Happonen

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Recently we have been fighting with a nasty problem. It started around new years, and had gradually been getting worse.

We use Mellanox 6036 switches for our cloud. They're Infiniband switches, but we run most of the ports in ethernet mode, since you can do that if you have the license. That part is actually pretty cool.

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March 11, 2016

A HPC admin in a Cloud world

Disclaimer: Personal experience may alter your perception of reality. This also applies to yours truly.

This post is also somewhat generalized, there are tons of approaches for HPC and IaaS.

I have a background in administering High Performance Computing (HPC) systems. As I have a lot of colleagues working with HPC, and IaaS . . .

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December 31, 2015

Volumes of trouble

Disclaimer Juno + CentOS7 (and CentOS6 for the cinder-volume host). Currently this service serves LVM backed cinder volumes over iSCSI.

So, a few days ago we had our customers contacting us. They seemed to have problems with cinder volumes. Some new volumes just didn't attach to VMs. They went to "attaching" and then . . .

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December 17, 2015

The Devil, Juno

A long upgrade

It's hard to find enough relevant Magic the Gathering card names for the blog post. It's much easier to come up with puns. And they're almost as awesome. So here we are.

Anyway, to the point. We're not on Icehouse anymore. Yay.

OpenStack upgrade Icehouse -> Juno

We recently updated our OpenStack . . .

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November 20, 2015

Frantic Search

Keystone v3 API and admin token

Basic disclaimer. Still CentOS 6 + Icehouse (hope that's the last time I'll write that).

The problem

The OpenStack Python APIs are a bit, uhm, optimistically documented. As in "I'm sure people will figure it out". Well that's why I'm writing this.

I tried to get the keystone v3 API . . .

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September 14, 2015

Fate Transfer

Migrating from CentOS 6 to CentOS 7

We have run OpenStack for a while, and always on CentOS 6. It's old and virtualization-wise somewhat restricted. Currently we're on OpenStack Icehouse. The Juno packages don't exist for CentOS 6 so we need to make the challenging jump to CentOS 7 before upgrading.

This is mainly a problem for the compute nodes. The . . .

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July 28, 2015

Reins of Power

A simple generic v3 keystone admintoken openrc

Some things in OpenStack Keystone (mainly bootstrapping) really needs the admin token. As the admin token should not leave the keystone machines, here is a simple openrc for when you need the admin token.

#!/bin/bash
export OS_IDENTITY_API_VERSION=3
export OS_URL=$(grep ^admin_endpoint /etc/keystone/keystone.conf |cut -f 2 -d  . . .

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July 08, 2015

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