Kevin Jackson is an IT professional with over 10 years of Linux experience working with small businesses to online enterprises. He is an RHCE and has extensive experience of various flavours of Linux and Unix. Currently he specialises in web and cloud infrastructure including OpenStack, Apache, Nginx, HA Proxy, Tomcat, JBoss and Squid. He has extensive knowledge of hosting infrastructure and security. You can contact Kevin Jackson here: kevin @ linuxservices.co.uk and follow him @itarchitectkev.
Kevin is the author of OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook which can be purchased from PacktPub.com
Hi Kevin,
Nice to e-meet you.
We have some doubts in open stack installation. Please help on this/
Hi,
What are you having problems with? Happy to help where I can.
Hi Kevin,
Thanks for sharing your wisdom. Without your insights, we would just not be able to make sense of OpenStack. Your scripts have started us off on the right track.
Kind regards,
Euan Jonker
Unomena.com
Hi Kevin,
Thank you so much for posting the http://vimeo.com/39299140. I followed your video instruction, everything installed accordingly but I had an error when I was trying to access the Images and Snapshots in the OpenStack’s Dashboard. The errors are as follows:
Error: Unable to retrieve images.
Error: Unable to retrieve snapshots.
Also, under Object Store->Containers, I got this error:
error at /nova/containers/
[Errno 111] Connection refused
Request Method: GET
Request URL: http://192.168.1.23/nova/containers/
Django Version: 1.3.1
Exception Type: error
Exception Value:
[Errno 111] Connection refused
Exception Location: /usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py in create_connection, line 571
Python Executable: /usr/bin/python
Python Version: 2.7.3
Python Path:
['/usr/share/openstack-dashboard/openstack_dashboard/wsgi/../..',
'/usr/lib/python2.7',
'/usr/lib/python2.7/plat-linux2',
'/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-tk',
'/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-old',
'/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload',
'/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages',
'/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages',
'/usr/share/openstack-dashboard/',
'/usr/share/openstack-dashboard/openstack_dashboard']
Server time: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 10:58:40 -0700
Please help when you can. Thanks!
Cheers!
– Jeff Vu
You need to set up Swift to get the Containers working. I suggest you look at http://swift.openstack.org/development_saio.html as a good place to start.
Hi Kevin,
Looking forward to the book! I thought you might be interested in including a bit on custom-branding the Essex Dashboard I just posted: http://www.prestonlee.com/2012/05/09/how-to-custom-brand-the-openstack-horizon-dashboard/
Preston
Hi Preston,
Thanks for that – most useful. Cheers.