Webinar – Virtualization revitalized: How Oracle and Cloudbase Solutions...
Modernizing your infrastructure shouldn’t feel like a leap into the unknown. With the right combination of tools, cloud migration becomes not only manageable but genuinely strategic. That’s exactly...
View ArticleHassle-free Migration and Disaster Recovery from VMware vSphere to Proxmox VE...
Following Broadcom’s recent acquisition of VMware, the level of uncertainty within the private virtualized infrastructure space has reached an all-time high. With many companies now put on the spot by...
View ArticleK8S Bare Metal deployment Part 3 – Workload Cluster
Hello and welcome back to the third part of our series on Kubernetes bare metal deployment – deploying the Kubernetes Workload Cluster. In Part 2, we already prepared the environment for the...
View ArticleKubernetes Bare Metal Deployment Part 2: Setting Up the Kubernetes Management...
Hello again! Welcome back to our continuing journey on Kubernetes bare metal deployment. Today, we’ll delve deeper into establishing the Kubernetes Management Cluster. Understanding the Role of the...
View ArticleBare metal Kubernetes on mixed x64 and ARM64
This is the first blog post in a series about running mixed x86 and ARM64 Kubernetes clusters, starting with a general architectural overview and then moving to detailed step by step instructions....
View ArticleAmpere ALTRA – Industry leading ARM64 Server
AmpereComputing were kind enough to send us at our Cloudbase Solutions office the new version of their top-tier server product, which incorporates their latest Ampere ALTRA ARM64 Processor. The server...
View ArticleManage your own GitHub runners using garm
When GitHub Actions was introduced, it gave private repositories the ability to easily create a CI/CD pipeline by simply creating a yaml file within their repository. No special software was needed,...
View ArticleOpenStack on Azure
One might argue what is the point in running a cloud infrastructure software like OpenStack on top of another one, namely the Azure public cloud as in this blog post. The main use cases are typically...
View ArticleCeph on Windows – Performance
Make sure to check out the previous blog post introducing Ceph on Windows, in case you’ve missed it. We are now going to look at how the performance looks like. Before this Ceph Windows porting, the...
View ArticleNatively using Ceph on Windows
The wait is over, Ceph 16 (Pacific) provides Windows native support as a result of the Cloudbase Solutions and Suse partnership. Ceph is probably the most commonly used software defined storage...
View ArticleOpenStack on ARM64 – LBaaS
In part 2 of this series about OpenStack on ARM64, we got to the point where our cloud is fully deployed with all the Compute (VMs), Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Software Defined Storage...
View ArticleOpenStack on ARM64 – Deployment
In the previous blog post we created the ARM OpenStack Kolla container images and we can now proceed with deploying OpenStack. The host is a Lenovo server with an Ampere Computing eMAG 32 cores Armv8...
View ArticleOpenStack on ARM64 – Kolla container images
This is the beginning of a short series detailing how to deploy OpenStack on ARM64, using Docker containers with Kolla and Kolla-ansible. The objective of this first post is to create the ARM64...
View ArticlePython on Windows ARM64
Introduction Python is an interpreted programming language that is used in multiple fields, ranging from education, scientific purposes to DevOps and cloud infrastructure. According to...
View ArticleHyper-V ARM64 with Windows and Linux VMs
In this post we will focus on the state of virtualization for Windows Hyper-V on ARM64, checking if we can run Windows and Linux virtual machines. This is the second part of the ‘State of Windows on...
View ArticleWindows on ARM64 with Cloudbase-Init
ARM servers are more and more present in our day to day life, their usage varying from minimal IoT devices to huge computing clusters. So we decided to put the Windows support for ARM64 cloud images...
View ArticleMigrate VMs to Kubernetes? Sure! Why not?
The world is rapidly moving towards containarized deployments, serverless applications and away from traditional infrastructure based on virtual machines and bare metal servers. Mind you, virtual...
View ArticleCloud Engineer Bootcamp for Students
Unlock your DevOps potential in as dynamic a cloud computing start-up as it gets! Curriculum Our lab will consist entirely of hands-on classes where the trainee gets the chance to directly interact...
View ArticleCoriolis – Migrate VMs from VMware to Azure Stack
Microsoft Azure Stack brings Azure on-premise and with that comes the opportunity to migrate your workloads from other on-prem cloud and virtualization technologies like VMware vSphere, System Center...
View ArticleEasily deploy a Kubernetes cluster on OpenStack
Platform and cloud interoperability has come a long way. IaaS and unstructured PaaS options such as OpenStack and Kubernetes can be combined to create cloud-native applications. In this port we’re...
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