Archive for the ‘cloud’ Category
CohesiveFT video overview
For those of you wondering what I do in my day job:
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Tags: cloud, networking, security
Your own VPN in the cloud
Last week I saw that major credit card companies are blocking payments to VPN services: This is bad news if you want to protect your stuff online (or pretend that you’re in another country). One way to deal with this is to run your own VPN service in the cloud. This is of course of […]
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Tags: Access Server, android, cloud, iOS, iPad, iphone, Linux, MAC, OpenVPN, VNS3, vpn, VPS, Windows
OpenELEC dev builds
Over the past week or so my automated build engine for OpenELEC on the Raspberry Pi hasn’t been working. XBMC has grown to a point where it will no longer build on a machine with 1GB RAM. Normal services has now been resumed, as the good people at GreenQloud kindly increased my VM from t1.milli […]
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Tags: cloud, GreenQloud, iaas, openelec, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, RPi, XBMC
This post first appeared on the CohesiveFT blog. One of the announcments that seemed to get lost in the noise at this week’s IO conference was that Google Compute Engine (GCE) is now available for everyone. I took it for a quick test drive yesterday, and here are some of my thoughts about what I found. Web interface […]
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Tags: access control, cloud, GCE, gcutil, google, iaas, identity, image management, network, performance, price, SSH, storage, UI, web
An adventure with Chef
I hear a lot of people talking about automated deployment with Chef (and its competitor Puppet, which I haven’t had the chance to try yet), so I thought I’d spend some time seeing how it would fit in with our image management platform Server3. Don’t stray from the PATH To get familiar with Chef, I dove straight into the […]
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Tags: aws, Chef, development, DevOps, image automation, image management, Inception, Puppet, Server3
Ruining the firework display
This is a cross post from the CohesiveFT corp blog. For many years setting off fireworks was a labor intensive task, with people running around lighting blue touch papers. That’s been changed in recent years, and large displays are now automated. Somebody programs a script into a box, then presses the Go! button to set things off. Once […]
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Tags: automation, fireworks
My New Job
I’ve started a new job as CTO for CohesiveFT. It’s a great company with a great team and some great products and services. As I’ve known many of the people since before the company was founded this post could be subtitled ‘a brief history of CohesiveFT’. The people and pre-history Alexis Richardson was the instigator. […]
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Tags: aws, deployment, factory, IBM. cloud, image, industrial design, management, multicast, network, open source, OpenStack, SDN, security, topology, virtual appliance, virtual machine, vpn
Do VMs dream of real networks?
With apologies to Philip K. Dick. This post is going to address three topics: The relationship between a virtual machine (VM) and its network connection(s). The changing perimeter The role of APIs in controlling network configuration The common theme is dreams, or perhaps de/re(ams) – as the last two topics touch on whether something is de- or […]
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Tags: cloud, define, defined, deperimiterisation, deperimiterization, networking, perimeter, refine, refined, reperimiterisation, reperimiterization, SDN, software, virtualisation, virtualise, virtualization, virtualize, VLAN, VM, VMs
I first came across GreenQloud at GigaOm Structure Europe last year. It’s a cloud service based in Iceland that is powered entirely from renewable energy. I bumped into Eiki and Bala again last week at London CloudCamp, and gave them my sob story about hosting. They’ve very kindly offered to provide free hosting for my […]
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Tags: bandwidth, GreenCloud, hosting, openelec, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, RPi
DevOps is really about design
I the early part of the ‘unpanel’ session at last night’s post Cloud Expo London CloudCamp there was a good deal of debate about DevOps and what it means. Some people talked about new skill mixes, others talked about tools. These are I think simply artefacts. The more fundamental change is about design. At the risk […]
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Tags: cloud, cloudcamp, design, DevOps, maintenance, manufacture, maturity, paas, purpose, saas
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