Monthly Archives: January 2017
Accessing openstack instances, proxy gateways and proxy clients
While I treat my home lab openstack instances as proper cloud instances, specifically they are supposed to be thrown up and torn down not exist for a long time, I don’t like assigning more that one floating ip per tenant-network … Continue reading
OpenStack Matika DNS resolution, or lack of
Unfortunately even at the Matika release neutron networking is unable to use DNS lookup by instance name yet. The issue is that DNS entries (if DNS is configured to be used) are not created for the instance hostname, but instead … Continue reading
OpenStack RDO using packstack again, Matika release
Apologies in advance for the formatting. The WP template I am using at the moment does not handle PRE correctly and wraps it around rather than letting it scroll. But onward. I finally got my second compute node working correctly … Continue reading
OpenStack – Playing with heat patterns
My attempts to figure out OpenStack are happily producing more headaches for me. This is still on tha Matika release. I have temporarily suspended my attempts to get migration between compute nodes working as I have been sidetracked by heat … Continue reading
qemu qcow2 converting to old format
This post is mainly to remind me how to to it without having to to get the qemu-img help display up all the time. In one of the later releases of Fedora (24 I think) the qcow2 image format changed. … Continue reading