About

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

7 comments on “About

  1. 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

  2. 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

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