Downgrade a package in Ubuntu
There are times when you want to use an earlier version of a package in Ubuntu. Perhaps due to a bug in the latest bleeding edge package that is currently in use. Or maybe the behavior has changed in...
View ArticleREST-esting with cURL: File Handling
The preview of CloudIQ Storage brings Amazon S3-like functionality to Managed Service Providers, organizations, and businesses. It opens up new possibilities with distributed, reliable storage of data...
View ArticleAppistry CloudIQ Maven plugin on Google Code
I finally decided to bite the bullet and publish the work-in-progress maven-cloudiq-plugin code to Google code. Google Code and Mercurial While I did not spend a ton of time evaluating a public project...
View ArticleAppistry CloudIQ Maven plugin: Birth and moving forward
I finally added some wiki pages around maven-cloudiq-plugin. And I will be continually adding to the wiki in the days to come. But I thought I would take a moment to give some background on the plugin...
View ArticleAppistry CloudIQ: Java bindings for CloudIQ APIs
For some time now there has been a whole flurry of development around Java bindings for CloudIQ APIs. We have also been using it on internal and client projects quite successfully. While we know there...
View ArticleAppistry CloudIQ Maven plugin: Update fabric / far version
Ever since Appistry CloudIQ Maven plugin has been open-sourced on Google code, enhancements and features are being added regularly. A recent feature that was added was the update fabric/far version...
View ArticleEucalyptus: Setting up a private infrastructure cloud
There are a few Infrastructure-as-a-Service offerings that available to download and use. Eucalyptus and OpenNebula are two such offerings. I ended up installing and experimenting with both Eucalyptus...
View ArticleEucalyptus: Configuring your private cloud to resemble Amazon EC2
You can reduce your hardware infrastructure expenditure by using Eucalyptus to efficiently run and manage your virtual machines on existing hardware. This in turn effectively leads to larger energy...
View ArticleEucalyptus: Euca2ools
In this series of posts on “Building an on-premise private cloud” we have so far: Installed Eucalyptus, an Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering, and Configured Eucalyptus to start VMs with IP addresses...
View ArticleEucalyptus: Creating and Registering our first Image
In our previous posts on “Building an on-premise private cloud”, we took our first steps by Installing Eucalyptus, a IaaS offering and then dove into Configuring Eucalyptus to look like an Amazon EC2...
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