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Using Eucalyptus 4.0.1 CloudFormation to Deploy a CoreOS (Docker) Cluster
In a previous blog, I discussed how cloud-init can be used to customize a CoreOS image deployed as an instance on Eucalyptus – which happens to work in the same fashion on AWS. This is a follow-up...
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Cloud Image Management on Eucalyptus: Creating a CentOS 6.6 EMI With ZFS Support
ZFS is a filesystem designed by Sun Microsystems that focuses on data integrity. What makes this such an attractive filesystem to use in the cloud is that a cloud user can easily do the following: set...
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Adding Eucalyptus Load Balancer Access Logging for Eucalyptus Cloud Users
Preface Eucalyptus continues to strive as the best on-premise AWS-compatible Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). One of the great things about Eucalyptus being an open source platform, is that if...
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Using AWS CodeDeploy with Eucalyptus Cloudformation for On-Premise...
Background Recently, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that their CodeDeploy service supports on-premise instances. This is extremely valuable – especially for developers and administrators to allow...
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Updated CoreOS Cluster Cloudformation Template for HPE Helion Eucalyptus 4.2...
In 2014, I created a series of blog posts that have discussed using CoreOS on Eucalyptus cloud infrastructures. This blog post is an updated version of the entry which discussed how to deploy a CoreOS...
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CoreOS CloudInit Config for Docker Storage Management
CoreOS is a Linux distribution that allows easy deployment of Docker environments. With CoreOS, users have the ability to deploy clustered Docker environments, or deploy zero downtime applications....
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Growing and Securing Instance Root Filesystems With Overlayroot on Eucalyptus
Background I frequently check out Dustin Kirkland’s blog to get ideas about how to secure instances running on various cloud infrastructures. Recently, I stumbled across one of his blog entries, where...
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Customizing Eucalyptus Load Balancer for Eucalyptus 4.0
Background For the Elastic Load Balancing service, Eucalyptus utilizes an HAProxy instance. The load balancer image contains the following version of haproxy (as of Eucalyptus 4.0.0): #...
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Eucalyptus 4.0 Load Balancer Statistics Web UI for the Cloud Administrator
Background From the cloud user’s perspective, the Eucalyptus Load Balancer is a “black box“. The only interaction cloud user’s have with the Eucalyptus Load Balancer is through the eulb-* commands in...
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Setting Up 3-Factor Authentication (Keypair, Password, Google Authenticator)...
Recently, I was logging into my AWS account, where I have multi-factor authentication (MFA) enabled, using the Google Authenticator application on my smart phone. This inspired me to research how to...
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