In my last post I detailed how to set up your own IRCd with Pam authentication and SSL. In this post we'll discuss how to add a meeting log IRC bot based on debian's meetbot, which is a module for supybot. Eucalyptus uses this extensively for all irc...
In Greg's Where is Waldo game, one big event was missing: Eucalyptus is also at UDS. Harold, Brian and me are already in Oakland ready to rock and roll. We have exciting news for our session: you can...
For those of you who missed us in New York and the Bay Area this week, never fear. We’re getting around. 
Come see us at:
- April 28 – 29: LinuxFest Northwest, Bellingham WA
- April 30 – May 2: OpenCloudConf, Sunnyvale CA
- May 6 – 10: Interop Las Vegas – Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, NV
- May 8: Goldman Sachs Cloud Computing Conference – Rosewood Sand Hill, Menlo...
Network Time Protocol (NTP) It’s a protocol used to synchronize Linux system’s clock with an accurate time source. This little yet powerful tool is very important for every big network. And I have few bad experiences with this NTP. … Continue reading ...
On Wednesday April 25th, Eucalyptus will be hosting our first EucaDay. It’s a friendly little gathering of customers, partners, and community, and it’s free to attend. If you’re in the New York City area, you can register right now.
Of course, not everyone will be able to make it to New York City for this event. That’s ok, too — you can still attend and participate. For the sessions led by Marten Mickos (head honcho...
In my last post I detailed using screen as a teaching tool. In this post I will go over using IRC to augment the demonstration with lecture/Q-and-A sessions and using a bot to record your sessions. This post will deal specifically with setting up your own IRC service.
Chef is a tool used for configuration management of bare metal and virtual systems. Chef has a client/server model as well as a standalone tool that is very similar to the tools from Puppet Labs. (Want to automate a puppet agent installation? Check out my earlier...
In March, we announced an agreement to collaborate with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to ensure API compatibility between AWS and the Eucalyptus open source on-premise Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform. Beyond the details of the news, I'd like to shed some light on how I think this agreement helps customers focus on the larger discussion of the policies and business logic that govern application workloads.
For some...
The cloud world has been quite the spectacle lately. Intrigue, romance, alliances and double-crosses, comedy, tragedy, and zombies. If you’ve seen the play already, I won’t bore you by recounting it — and if you haven’t, I won’t ruin it for you.
At Eucalyptus, we continue to care most about, and focus chiefly on, making open source cloud software that works for our users. So let’s set aside the theatrics and talk about users for a moment.
Some of you may be familiar with the...
With the agreement between Eucalyptus and Amazon to cooperate on ensuring API fidelity between the two technologies comes the question of defining what it means for two independent implementations to support the same API. The API itself consists of a large number of different "commands" or "service requests," each of which triggers many different operations within the system that are visible to the user. Moreover, the API makes...
