These are just some notes I was keeping around for installing a KVM machine that can be used as a template for creating new KVM instances.

If you’ve seen the blog post about creating a template for KVM virtual machines then you probably were wondering how to actually clone an already existing template system.

In a previous post I’ve blogged about the OpenStack Folsom installation under Ubuntu 12.04 Server system.

If you are a Star Wars fan and also like ASCII art, then you would really enjoy this one.

Had to install OpenStack recently for our internal cloud management solution and just wanted to share with you my experience.

Sometimes when a Blade’s MM goes down and you cannot access the web interface of the MM your last resort is the SSH and/or Telnet interface.

CFEngine 2 does not provide a native class to determine a VMware machine, thus if you want to put VMware machines under CFEngine 2 control you have no native way of recognizing these machines by CFEngine 2.

CFEngine 2 does not provide interfaces for direct manipulation of users and groups on a UNIX/Linux system, but it provides the primitives we need in order to create our own.

Another nice feature of CFEngine is that you are able to do process accounting as well.

In this handbook we we will see how to install and do the initial configuration of Gerrit - a code review and project management system for Git based project.