The Hyper-Converged OpenStack® cloud infrastructure
Convert, create and verify various virtual disk formats.
Compatible with Hyper-V, KVM, VMware, VirtualBox and Xen.
This is the first blog post in a series about running mixed x86 and ARM64 Kubernetes clusters, starting with a general architectural overview and then moving to detailed step by step instructions. Kubernetes doesn’t need any introduction at this point, as it became the de facto standard container orchestration system. If you, dear reader, developed…
AmpereComputing were kind enough to send us at our Cloudbase Solutions office the new version of their top-tier server product, which incorporates their latest Ampere ALTRA ARM64 Processor. The server version has a beefy dual-socket AMPERE ALTRA setup, with 24 NVME slots and up to 8 TB installable RAM, spread over 8 channels. Let the…
When GitHub Actions was introduced, it gave private repositories the ability to easily create a CI/CD pipeline by simply creating a yaml file within their repository. No special software was needed, no external access had to be granted to third party CI/CD systems. It just worked. One year later, this feature was made available, for…
One might argue what is the point in running a cloud infrastructure software like OpenStack on top of another one, namely the Azure public cloud as in this blog post. The main use cases are typically testing and API compatibility, but as Azure nested virtualization and pass-through features came a long way recently in terms…
Make sure to check out the previous blog post introducing Ceph on Windows, in case you’ve missed it. We are now going to look at how the performance looks like. Before this Ceph Windows porting, the only way to access Ceph storage from Windows was by using the Ceph iSCSI gateway, which can easily become…
The wait is over, Ceph 16 (Pacific) provides Windows native support as a result of the Cloudbase Solutions and Suse partnership. Ceph is probably the most commonly used software defined storage solution out there. For example, according to surveys, more than 70% of the OpenStack deployments are powered by Ceph. That’s no wonder, considering that…
