Tag: crowbar
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On beyond Crowbar: RackN and Digital Rebar
Last, but not least in my KubeCon video-palooza series is an interview with RackN founder, Rob Hirschfeld. Rob talks about their offering Digital Rebar and how it addresses composable operations. Some of the ground Rob covers How he’s taking what he did at Dell (Crowbar) and taking it beyond physical provisioning and automation. V3 is now…
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Project Sputnik now comes with 3 month free trial on Joyent cloud
As of today we are making available three months of free use of the Joyent Cloud to owners of the XPS 13 developer edition. The idea behind Project Sputnik, has always been to provide a client-to-cloud platform for developers and today we are offering access to the Joyent Cloud to complete the solution. What you…
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Dell and Sputnik go to OSCON
Next week, myself, Michael Cote and a whole other bunch of Dell folk will be heading out to Portland for the 15th annual OSCON-ana-polooza. We will have two talks that you might want to check out: Connecting the client to the cloud – The Sputnik Story 07/24/2013 11:30am Must Haves for your Cloud Toolbox: Driving…
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DevOpsDays: Crowbar, where its been and where its going
Earlier this month at DevOpsDays here in Austin the Dell Crowbar crew hosted a session and gave a demo. If you’re not familiar with it, Crowbar is an open source software framework written at Dell. I grabbed some time with Crowbar architect Rob Hirschfeld and got him to recap how far we’ve come in its…
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DevOpsDays Austin — The provisioning panel starring JuJu, Crowbar, Puppet, Chef and Pallet
Last week DevOpsDays was held here in Austin. It sold out in about day after it was announced and had a big waiting list. The two-day event, which was held at National Instruments (who did an awesome job as host), featured talks and panels in the mornings and “open space” discussions in the afternoons. The panel…
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On beyond North America — Dell’s OpenStack solution now available in Europe and Asia
Last summer at OSCON Dell announced the availability of our OpenStack solution in the US and Canada. Today at World Hosting Days in Rust Germany we are now announcing that our OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution is available in Europe and Asia. If you’re not familiar with it, OpenStack is an open source cloud project built on…
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Hadoop World, a belated summary
With O’Reilly’s big data conference Strata coming up in just a couple of weeks, I thought I might as well get around to finally writing up my notes from Hadoop World . The event, which was put on by Cloudera, was held last November 8-9 in New York city. There were over 1,400 attendees from…
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Opscode visits
This afternoon Matt Ray, Technical Evangelist for Opscode, stopped by Dell’s Round Rock HQ to brief a gaggle of folks on what they are up to. Cote arranged the visit as well as one last month with Puppet labs, which I unfortunately wasn’t able to make. After Matt, with some help from teammates on the…
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Hadoop World: What Dell is up to with Big Data, Open Source and Developers
Besides interviewing a bunch of people at Hadoop World, I also got a chance to sit on the other side of the camera. On the first day of the conference I got a slot on SiliconANGLE’s the Cube and was interviewed by Dave Vellante, co-founder of Wikibon and John Furrier, founder of SiliconANGLE. -> Check…
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How to create a Basic or Advanced Crowbar build for Hadoop
As I mentioned in my previous entry, the code for the Hadoop barclamps is now available at our github repo. To help you through the process, Crowbar lead architect Rob Hirschfeld has put together the two videos below. The first, Crowbar Build (on cloud server), shows you how to use a cloud server to create a…
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Developers: How to get involved with Crowbar for Hadoop
In the previous entry I mentioned that we have developed and will be opensourcing “barclamps” (modules that sit on top of Crowbar) for: Cloudera CDH/Enterprise, Zookeeper, Pig, Hbase, Flume and Sqoop. All these modules will speed and ease the deployment, configuration and operation of Hadoop clusters. If you would like to get involved, check out…
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Dell to opensource software to ease Hadoop install & management
It wouldn’t be surprising if you were surprised to learn that Dell is developing software. To say that this is an area we haven’t been known for in the past would be an understatement. While we may not pose a direct threat to Microsoft any time soon, we have been coding in a few focused…
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Crowbar: Where its been and where its going
Rob Hirschfeld, aka “Commander Crowbar,” recently posted a blog entry looking back at how Crowbar came to be, how its grown and where he hopes it will go from here. What’s a Crowbar? If you’re not familiar with Crowbar, its an open source software framework that began life as an installation tool to speed installation…
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Check us out at next week’s OpenStack Design Summit
If you’re planning on attending the OpenStack Design summit and conference next week in Beantown you’ll have to check us out. I’m bummed that I will be missing the summit for the first time, I have a big internal presentation next week, but the rest of the Dell OpenStack crew will be there in force. …
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Props from GigaOm for Dell as Web outfitter
Dell has been working for the last four plus years outfitting the biggest of the big web superstars like Facebook and Microsoft Azure with infrastructure. More recently we have been layering software such as Hadoop, OpenStack and crowbar on top of that infrastructure. This has not gone unnoticed by web pub GigaOm: Want to become…
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Cloud Foundry picks up Crowbar to speed installation
In case you’re not familiar with Cloud Foundry, it’s an open source Platform as a Service project initiated at VMware. More specifically it provides a platform for building, deploying, and running cloud apps using Spring for Java developers, Rails and Sinatra for Ruby developers, Node.js and other JVM frameworks including Grails. The project began two years…
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Introducing the Dell | Cloudera solution for Apache Hadoop — Harnessing the power of big data
Data continues to grow at an exponential rate and no place is this more obvious than in the Web space. Not only is the amount exploding but so is the form data’s taking whether that’s transactional, documents, IT/OT, images, audio, text, video etc. Additionally much of this new data is unstructured/ semi-structured which traditional relational…
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Dell announces availability of OpenStack solution; Open sources “Crowbar” software framework
Today at OSCON we are announcing the availability of the Dell OpenStack Cloud Solution along with the open sourcing of the code behind our Crowbar software framework. The Solution Dell has been a part of the OpenStack community since day one a little over a year ago and today’s news represents the first available cloud…
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Structure: Learning about DevOps & Crowbar from Jesse Robbins
Last week on Day two of Structure the morning sessions ended with an interesting discussion moderated by James Urquhart. The session was entitled “DevOps – Reinventing the Developers Role in the Cloud Age” and featured Luke Kanies – CEO, Puppet Labs and Jesse Robbins – Co-Founder and CEO, Opscode. After lunch I ran into Jesse and…
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Citrix to launch OpenStack Distro (with a little help from Rackspace and Dell)
Today at Citrix Synergy, Citrix announced “Project Olympus,” their up coming OpenStack distribution. In case you’re not familiar with it, OpenStack is an open source cloud platform based on the code from NASA’s Nebula cloud as well as Rackspace’s storage code. The OpenStack project kicked of last summer and already has gathered support from over…