Category Archive: cloud

Mar 22

Consul for Raspberry Pi is Alive

This version is forked from http://github.com/progrium/docker-consul and runs on the Raspberry Pi. Thanks to Jeff Lindsay for all his hard work. I am merely standing on the shoulders of giants. This initial version is a bit largish — ~500Mb; I think it’s mostly due to needing a go build environment. I think I can use …

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Mar 21

Swarming Raspberry Pi – Part 1

swarm-result

Here’s the first in a series of building a robust docker swarm of raspberry pi hosts. This installment goes through installing the Pi(s), modifiying the Docker Daemon config, and starting up a test to verify that everyone can join the cluster. The cluster which I am using consists of Raspberry Pi B+ x 5 Raspberry …

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Mar 10

Raspberry Pi Swarm Pushed to Unsuspecting Docker Hub

I’ve pushed nimblestratus/rpi-swarm to the Docker Hub. It was pretty easy to port — basically stock Swarm, with Dockerfile changes needed for the Pi. Thanks to hypriot for the hypriot/rpi-golang container which I used as a base. One caveat…. only containers which are created for the Pi will be able to run on the Raspberry …

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Mar 06

Cloudy with a chance of Raspberries

I have been experimenting with Raspberry Pi computers with the intent of having a small cloud that I can take with me to talks. Plusses: I can have a good sized cluster in a small volume. Low power draw (6W or less per computer) With the release of the Pi 2, distribution based upon available …

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Nov 14

Free Cloud Resources

This is a quick list of “free” cloud resources. Mirantis Openstack Express (Developer) Rackspace Developer + Google Cloud Platform Trial Openshift Free Elephant Postgres (free) Redis Cloud ClearDB (mysql) Stackato Cluster (up to 20GB)

Jul 27

Using Openstack/Devstack Floating IPs from outside

I hope that this is of use to someone. After many hours of tearing down, building up, programming routers, etc., I’ve figured out why my devstack wasn’t allowing access from floating ips. I knew that the address was resolving (arp -a); I just couldn’t ssh to it (or do anything else with it) It was …

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Aug 01

Cloudy Update

I’ve been working with Docker a good bit and have updated my list of tools.  Here’s a quick dump of where I am in the design of the infrastructure. collectd will be used to monitor cgroup statistics.  This necessitates compiling all or part of collectd — the current packages do not contain the cgroup plugin. …

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