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Running Cloud Foundry on OpenStack

This video discusses how you can run Cloud Foundry on OpenStack. Cloud Foundry is an open standards based Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for deploying, managing and scaling applications, while OpenStack is focused on virtual machines and the underlying Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS).

Crowbar for OpenStack Deployments

Crowbar is an Open Source platform for server provisioning and deployment from bare metal. It provides server discovery, firmware upgrades, and operating system installation using PXE Boot. It deploys applications on top of functioning operating systems using chef.

CloudStack Versus OpenStack Versus Eucalyptus

This video takes an in-depth look at the new open source private cloud IaaS distros from CloudStack, OpenStack, and Eucalyptus. It considers a high-level enterprise perspective and draws architectural comparisons but also blasts ahead and shows you how to configure and deploy your own private clouds for free with these technologies. Although it’s not open …

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Enterprise to OpenStack

Fortune 2000 companies are eager for OpenStack to open up cost models around cloud computing much like Linux did for operating systems but most have not yet taken the plunge. Why? In this talk, hear tales from the field of the most commonly cited missing features that the enterprises are asking for before taking fully …

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True Hybrid Clouds: Extending OpenStack with Cloud Foundry

Learn how the open source Cloud Foundry project is used by Appfog to extend OpenStack to create true hybrid clouds. Inter-cloud connections and workload portability across various instances of OpenStack are explored. Watch demonstrations of how developers can simply create applications in their language of choice, deploy to instances of public OpenStack-based Clouds (i.e. HP …

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An Operational Approach to OpenStack Clouds

This article describes how you can use two open source tools, OpenStack and Crowbar, to provide an openly accessible, scalable and globally supported Cloud development platform. Using a Devops approache, cloud implementation experience suggests seven key principles related to help manage large-scale Cloud systems.

Snakes on a Cloud: the OpenStack Project

This talks start by defining the place of OpenStack in the general “cloud” landscape and explaining why a fully open cloud infrastructure stack is necessary to avoid vendor lock-in. It then focuses on the OpenStack project goals, its developer community, its open design and release processes and the developer tools it chose.