Vinod Borole

Vinod Borole

I like building things to solve problems

Installing Devstack – A developer’s cloud

Step 1 : Create VM ubuntu 14.x (4vcpu, 8GB RAM, 100GB Disk)

Step 2 : Login as a non-root user

Step 3 : Install git


sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git

Step 4 : Git clone devstack project


git clone https://git.openstack.org/openstack-dev/devstack

Step 5: Checkout a stable release Code lines here.


git checkout [release-name/id]

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Openstack Group-Based Policy

OpenStack has grown from a simple open source project to a major community-based initiative including thousands of contributors in more than a hundred countries.As OpenStack clouds begin to scale and the basic infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) use case evolves, developers have an opportunity to look beyond the initial challenges of setting up virtual machines, configuring storage devices, and orchestrating network connectivity on demand.Future IaaS environments need to focus on deployment and delivery of applications and services with speed, agility, flexibility, security, and scale rather than just orchestration of infrastructure components. For such solutions, a declarative policy engine can be a critical component.

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My Fellow Coders

Do you remember the last time when you had to clean someone else’s CRAPPY code? I am sure at least once in our lifetime we had to deal with a mess so grave that it took weeks to do what should have taken hours? Have you seen what should have been a one-line change, made instead in hundreds of different modules? These symptoms are all too common in the life of a coder.

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