I frequently spin up fresh Rackspace Private Cloud environments, and it is much more convenient to have all the steps within the Vagrantfile so you can run vagrant up, go make a sandwich, and come back to a multi-node Rackspace Private Cloud environment. Below are a handful of Vagrantfiles to do just this.
Today our Control Panel team announced support for Cloud Block Storage Volume Cloning. Some of our savvier users may have noticed that volume cloning was silently released as an API-only feature back in early November. Volume Cloning (ergo volume copy) allows for the creation of a new volume from an existing one. While this is a pretty big feature, it would have been easy to miss, as its simply the addition of a source_volid parameter to the existing create volume call.
"If you have found yourself in a situation where you needed to upload, download, delete, modify, or checkout a whole bunch of files/objects, this is what you are looking for. Turbolift is a client which was designed to access Cloud Files - Swift - quickly"
Rackspace - Monitoring Cloud Databases
In the first article we configured salt-master and created a Cloud Server. In this article we will start building up the Marconi environment and while doing so shape what our salt configuration will look like.
The great tools in this story are computers or better put, servers configured for specific purposes. In this series, we will explore Salt and automate an OpenStack Marconi environment.
Here you are going to simply add some POOL information to the PHP-FPM setup that you have already done. Unknowingly when you entered the command to install PHP-FPM, the system setup a default configuration for PHP-FPM. So most of the heavy lifting has been done for you.