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HOWTO quickly add a route in Mac OSX
Adding a route manually can be necessary sometimes. When on Linux, I know the command by head: On the Mac the command is similar, but a bit different Just as a note to myself and anyone else...
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HOWTO create a network in CloudStack without a Virtual Router
Networking in CloudStack 3.0 is awesome; the Virtual Router provides many cool features like LoadBalancing, PortForwarding, (s)NAT, DHCP, VPN and so on. When a new network is created and being used, a...
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Meet our shiny new CloudStack Cloud
This is what our Cloud looks like in the CloudStack Dashboard. Pretty powerful These are the boxes the hardware was in. This image is taken in our lab while testing CloudStack. Very handy: a tray for...
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How I replaced the CloudStack Virtual Router with my own physical Linux router
Back in March I wrote a blog on how to create a network without a Virtual Router. I received a lot of questions about it. It’s also a question that pops up now and then on the CloudStack forums. In...
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Migrating an ip-address to another server: clear the arp cache of your neighbors
When migrating an ip-address to another server, you will notice it will take anywhere between 1 and 15 minutes for the ip-address to work on the new server. This is caused by the arp cache of the...
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Securely connect an Advanced (private) CloudStack network by using a VLAN...
I’ve been working a lot with CloudStack Advanced networking and find it very flexible. Recently, I had another opportunity to test its flexibility when a customer called: “We want VM’s in your...
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HOWTO connect to hosts on a remote network using OpenVPN and some routing
OpenVPN is a very powerful tool to connect to a remote network in a secure and easy way. But while it’s quite easy to set it up (see my post about OpenVPN on Raspberry Pi), getting all the pieces...
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HOWTO discover the ip address of a Raspberry Pi
When you boot your Raspberry Pi with Raspbian, it will get its ip address from a DHCP server. Most tutorials I’ve seen, ask you to login to a ‘router’ (that serves as DHCP server as well) to find the...
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My keynote at the CloudStack Collaboration Conference in Dublin
Here are the slides from my keynote presentation at the CloudStack Collaboration Conference in Dublin today. Tomorrow I’ll do another presentation and talk about automation cloud operations!Filed...
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Inter-VPC connectivity made easy in Cosmic 5.3
It’s been one year after Cosmic started, forked off of the Apache CloudStack project. Cosmic 5.3 brings easy-to-use connectivity between VPCs. CloudStack users will recognise the Private Gateway...
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