Posts by: Soren
tl;dr: I now have daily backups of my laptop, powered by Rackspace Cloud Files (powered by Openstack), Deja-Dup, and Duplicity. I’ve been using computers for a long time. If memory serves, I got my first PC when I was 9, so that’s 20 years ago now. At various times, I’ve set up some sort of [...]
Ubuntu Maverick was released yesterday. Big congrats to the Ubuntu team for another release well out the door. As you may know, both Openstack storage (Swift) and compute (Nova) are available in the Ubuntu repositories. We haven’t made a proper release of Nova yet, so that’s a development snapshot, but it’s in reasonably good shape. [...]
Moments ago Rackspace announced the OpenStack project. Not only is this awesome news in and of itself, it also means that I can finally blog about it The Rackspace’s IaaS offering consists of two parts: Cloud Servers and Cloud Files. Incidentally, OpenStack (so far, at least) has two main components to it: A “compute” compenent [...]
Unhappy with the current state of VMBuilder, I recently decided to take a look at Hudson, hoping it can help improve quality going forward. Hudson is a “continuous integration” tool. This means that it’s a tool you use to apply quality control continuously rather than only either when you’re feeling bored or when a release [...]
Let it be no secret that I’m unhappy with the state of VMBuilder in Lucid (and in general for that matter). Way too many regressions crept in and I didn’t have time to fix them all. I still expect to do an SRU for all of this, but every time I try to attack the [...]
I recently ended up in a conversation with a guy who turned out also to work in IT. When I mentioned I worked on cloud computing, he started talking about how it was just the same old song. Before I had a chance to reply, we were interrupted, but I haven’t really been able to [...]
I got fed up with the old site. It was unfocused, unprofessional, not very pretty, out-of-date.. Frankly, I was feeling embarassed about it. I took it offline completely a couple of weeks ago, expecting to redo it altogether. While thinking about its future and trying to write a few things for the new web site, [...]
For years now, my blog has been powered by my own blogging engine. I wrote my own because I wanted to not have to run PHP on my web server, and it was a handy way to get familiar with Django. However, I now work for a company that, among many other things, offers web [...]
Today marks the beginning of my second month working for Rackspace. I’ve realised I haven’t actually blogged about my leaving Canonical, so this post doubles as an announcement about that, I suppose. A lot of thought was put into that decision. Ubuntu is an awesome project to work on and Canonical was a fun and [...]
Just a quick FYI: I’ve set up some magic to automatically rebuild a set of server packages every day to see if their regression test suites still pass. The current list of source packages: libvirt
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