OpenStack Salt MK22 Vagrant-based lab

The blog by Sebastian inspired me to try out OpenStack Salt in combination with the new MK22 Reclass model. Instead of using the TCPcloud provided labs I'm using my own laptop beast (ThinkPad W530 with 32GB of memory). For that reason I created a Vagrantfile for the mk22-lab-basic environment to …

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Hadoop on demand with Openstack, Cloudinit and Salt

This post will describe the whole process of providing hadoop on demand through Openstack, Cloudinit and Saltstack. We will use Openstack to provision servers on demand, cloudconfig to install salt-master and salt-minion and saltstack to deploy hadoop namenode and datanodes, all fully automated. This makes us able to deploy a …

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