An Introduction to Google Secure LDAP
More and more schools and organizations are taking advantage of sign-in tools from Microsoft Azure and Google for their authentication needs. These cloud-based [...]
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Port Forwarding with gobetween
As other blog posts on our site have mentioned, IPv4 addresses are becoming increasingly difficult to obtain. To make the situation more difficult, [...]
OpenStack Summit 2017: Lessons learned on Barbican, Kuryr and Vitrage
Having joined Cybera a year ago, I got to attend my first ever OpenStack Summit last month, in Boston. I was really impressed [...]
Let’s Build a Cloud — Puppet
In last week's blog, I talked about familiarizing yourself with the OpenStack components. This week, I will focus on Configuration Management Systems (CMS), [...]
Configuration Management Camp 2014
A few years ago, you would have been hard-pressed to have an entire conference dedicated to configuration management. Now, we have several conferences [...]
Better homes and tmuxing
While almost all interactions with computers and devices nowadays is through a graphical user interface, or GUI (point and click mouse actions, multi-touch interfaces), command-line interactions are still quite popular in the IT world. [...]
The best development tool is…Internet Relay Chat?
The more I work with cutting edge technology ‘ which, for me, means software that is still being heavily developed and doesn’t have good documentation yet, or software that isn’t commonly used ‘ the more I find Internet Relay Chat (IRC) to be helpful. [...]
Cybera staffer’s cloud expertise aids new Puppet book
Two Puppet Labs team members have recently published an online book on how to write types and providers for the configuration management tool Puppet. Cybera System Administrator, Joe Topjian, provided an expert review of the book. [...]
Oh, the places you’ll go…
One of the best things about working at Cybera is the amount of traveling and networking that I get to do. This is [...]
Let’s Build a Cloud — OpenStack and Networking Addendum
In the fourth part of this series, I showed how to use Puppet to install an entire OpenStack environment. During the writing and [...]