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Driving down a gully if you see a pedestrian, your “natural reaction” is to slow down. The decision on whether to stop or to continue driving and the safe distance that you want to create between the vehicle and the pedestrian depends on a number of factors. Are they a child or an adult? Or […]
Read More The what, why and how of predictive analyticsSo I have been writing some stuff, just not on the blog lately. This is the long overdue follow up post to my earlier post Setting up a Docker Swarm. When I wrote the earlier post I had setup a docker swarm on an OpenStack Cloud. However given the time duration (some due to circumstances and […]
Read More Understanding basic operations on Docker Swarm servicesThis post is a bit more involved than the previous ones. The format is also a little different. It expects that you are already comfortable with Alibaba ECS and SLB and the concepts around them. So if you are not comfortable with these concepts then I would strongly suggest going through the Getting Started with […]
Read More Auto Scaling with Alibaba CloudAnd so it continues. As promised I continue my journey deeper in to the Alibaba Cloud portfolio and as always I want to take you along. This is second chapter of a number of very simple how-to(s) that cover the basics of getting started with Alibaba Cloud. The idea of this set of posts is for […]
Read More Discovering Custom Images and Load Balancers on Alibaba CloudOkay, so I have been away for a bit. Okay quite a bit. I was in the middle of a lot of change and over the past month and a half quite a few things have changed in my life and hopefully they are for the better. The good news is I AM Back :D. I […]
Read More Getting Started with ECS on Alibaba CloudLBaaS, which is short for Load Balancer as a Service is just another way of saying, if you need a load balancer we have it. Till now you must have figured that running your own OpenStack has allowed you to have your own virtualized environments. Virtual Servers, Virtual Networks, Virtual Subnets and even virtual routers. […]
Read More Episode 6 – LBaaS – It is all about balance (An Openstack Series)We hear about containers everywhere. There are many founding technologies out there with the likes of docker, kubernetes and rkt to name a few. Most of us (the ones who still very much like what we do,) have some sort of an idea of what containerization is. Then there is a smaller subset that understand […]
Read More Setting up a Docker SwarmWhat is Heat? And what is the big deal about it? It is the “orchestration” service in OS, it automates configuration and deployment and it is “blah blah blah.” Yes all of us including myself have heard this a thousand times. But what is it actually good for? The idea of this episode is to […]
Read More Episode 5 – Understanding Heat (An OpenStack Series)Are you interested in having your very own Dropbox like service setup. Then you have come to the right place. A little while ago I came across an opensource application known as “OwnCloud.” OwnCloud provides very similar functionality to the likes of services like ‘Dropbox’ or ‘Google Drive,’ that allow users to backup their files […]
Read More OwnCloud (Your very own Dropbox)I feel its time that we stop discovering and start experiencing. Simply put lets stop installing and configuring things for an Episode or two and start using the the things that we have setup
Read More Episode 4 – Entertaining Guests (An OpenStack Series)
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