avladu
January 19, 2023, 1:10pm
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Hello, Adrian Vladu from Cloudbase Solutions here.
Title/Job Description: Cloud Engineer
Location/Country: Romania
First AArch64 device: Nokia E Series (32 bit, got a small collection), Rasp. Pies as first 64s.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrianvladu/
Other Social Media: ader1990 (ader1990) / Repositories · GitHub
Favorite Book/Movie/Song/TV Show: District 9
Been working for a while (more than 10 years) in bridging Linux and Windows technologies. Currently maintainer of a few open source projects, most notable cloudbase-init (the equivalent of cloud-init used mainly for Windows).
Glad to be here!
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Aaron
February 8, 2023, 1:12pm
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great seeing you at CfgmgmtCamp…
Please post some links to the projects that you and Cloudbase have done with Altra servers.
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avladu
February 9, 2023, 12:24pm
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Hello @Aaron , glad seeing you too in Ghent.
Cloudbase Solutions has been working with Ampere servers to make sure that OpenStack / Windows integration works well and many more since late 2020.
We have a series of nice blog posts:
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 to the test, with two primary focuses: Toolchain...
Est. reading time: 8 minutes
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 ARM64’ series. Click here for the first part. The...
Est. reading time: 5 minutes
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 http://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html, Python is ranked first in...
Est. reading time: 6 minutes
OpenStack on ARM64 including LBs:
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 container images and push them to a remote registry in...
Est. reading time: 4 minutes
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 64-bit CPU, running Ubuntu Server 20.04. For...
Est. reading time: 4 minutes
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 (SDS) up and running. One additional component that we...
Est. reading time: 6 minutes
Review of the Altra (first part):
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 version has a beefy dual-socket AMPERE ALTRA...
Est. reading time: 8 minutes
Thank you and I hope you will find the posts useful.