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Metal to Cloud – Part 14: Day 2 & Beyond
Welcome to the final installment of "Metal to Cloud: Your On-Prem Journey with MaaS, OpenStack & Juju" ! In Part 13, we saw the cu…
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Metal to Cloud – Part 13: The Real Payoff
Welcome back! In Part 12, we deployed the OpenStack Telemetry stack, giving us crucial visibility into our cloud's operation. We'v…
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Metal to Cloud – Part 12: Keeping Watch
In Part 11, we successfully interacted with our newly built cloud via the Horizon dashboard, launching a VM and validating the cor…
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Metal to Cloud – Part 11: Access and Interaction
Welcome back! In the last few posts, we've been deep in the engine room, deploying the OpenStack control plane (Part 6), Ceph stor…
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Metal to Cloud – Part 10: Adding Network Superpowers
In Part 9, we successfully deployed OVN, establishing the Software-Defined Networking (SDN) layer for our OpenStack cloud. Our vir…
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Metal to Cloud – Part 9: Weaving the Virtual Network Fabric
In Part 8, we deployed the nova-compute service, giving our cloud the ability to run VMs. However, those compute nodes and the VMs…
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Metal to Cloud – Part 8: Powering Virtual Machines
In Part 7, we established our robust Ceph storage backend, integrated with Glance for images and Cinder for volumes. Now, we need…
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Metal to Cloud – Part 7: Building Resilient Storage with Juju
In Part 6, we successfully deployed the core OpenStack control plane services using Juju, including identity, databases, messaging…
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Metal to Cloud – Part 6: Juju Deploys the Cloud Brain
In the previous post, we successfully set up Juju, bootstrapped its controller onto machine i44 via MaaS, and created our openstac…
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Metal to Cloud – Part 5: Enter Juju
In Part 4, we successfully brought our physical servers ("metal") under MaaS control. They are commissioned, inventoried, and sitt…
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Metal to Cloud – Part 4: Taming the Tin
In Part 3, we successfully installed and configured our MaaS Region and Rack controllers ( i41 , i42 , i43 ), imported Ubuntu imag…
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Metal to Cloud – Part 3: MaaS Setup
In Part 2, we meticulously planned our hardware and designed our segmented network. With the blueprint ready, it's time to install…
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Metal to Cloud – Part 2: The Cloud Blueprint
Welcome back to our "Metal to Cloud" journey! In Part 1, we discussed why building an on-prem cloud can be beneficial and introduc…
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Metal to Cloud – Part 1: Beyond Public Cloud
Welcome! 👋 Ever looked at the public cloud giants and thought, "Could I build something like that myself?" Maybe you're driven by…