Happy Friday! It's been a busy period here in the Oracle Linux team, so I thought I'd do a highlight post with links to some of the big things that are...
Happy Friday! It's been a busy period here in the Oracle Linux team, so I thought I'd do a highlight post with links to some of the big things that are happening: - LinuxCon North America starts in just 10 days, and Oracle is a sponsor. The conference features a keynote by Oracle Senior Vice President Linux and Virtualization Wim Coekaerts. If you're there, you don't want to miss it. - Speaking of Wim and LinuxCon, there is a short video to give you a peek into what Wim will...
Happy Friday! It's been a busy period here in the Oracle Linux team, so I thought I'd do a highlight post with links to some of the big things that are happening: - LinuxCon North America starts in...
The July 2015 edition of the Oracle Linux Newsletter is now available! In this issue, read about: Getting Started with Docker on Oracle Linux LinuxCon North...
The July 2015 edition of the Oracle Linux Newsletter is now available! In this issue, read about: Getting Started with Docker on Oracle Linux LinuxCon North America Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.0 Oracle Private Cloud Appliance 2.0.5 Oracle OpenStack SlideShare site And much more! You can read the latest edition online right now, or subscribe to get it automatically sent to your inbox. Enjoy! -Chris
The July 2015 edition of the Oracle Linux Newsletter is now available! In this issue, read about: Getting Started with Docker on Oracle Linux LinuxCon North America Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.0 Oracle...
Many OpenStack development environments use sqlite as a backend to store data. However in a production environment MySQL is widely used. Oracle also recommends...
Many OpenStack development environments use sqlite as a backend to store data. However in a production environment MySQL is widely used. Oracle also recommends to use MySQL for its OpenStack services. For many of the OpenStack services (nova, cinder, neutron...) sqlite is the default backend. Oracle OpenStack for Oracle Solaris users may want to migrate their backend database from sqlite to MySQL. The general idea is to dump the sqlite database. Translate the dumped SQL...
Many OpenStack development environments use sqlite as a backend to store data. However in a production environment MySQL is widely used. Oracle also recommends to use MySQL for its OpenStack services....
A new Oracle University course is now available: OpenStack Administration Using Oracle Solaris (Ed 1). This is a great way to get yourself up to speed on...
A new Oracle University course is now available: OpenStack Administration Using Oracle Solaris (Ed 1). This is a great way to get yourself up to speed on OpenStack, especially if you're thinking about getting a proof of concept, development or test, or even production environments online! The course is based on OpenStack Juno in Oracle Solaris 11.2 SRU 10.5. Through a series of guided hands-on labs you will learn to: Describe the OpenStack Framework. Configure a Single-Node...
A new Oracle University course is now available: OpenStack Administration Using Oracle Solaris (Ed 1). This is a great way to get yourself up to speed on OpenStack, especially if you're thinking about...
It's voting time! The next OpenStack Summit will be held in Tokyo, October 27-30. The Oracle OpenStack team have submitted a few papers for the summit that can...
It's voting time! The next OpenStack Summit will be held in Tokyo, October 27-30. The Oracle OpenStack team have submitted a few papers for the summit that can now be voted for: Building and Deploying Your Custom OpenStack with Kolla and Docker - Paul Bourke, Sam Yaple (Rackspace) The Kolla Command Line: Making The Easiest OpenStack Deployment Tool Even Easier - Borne Mace Single Tenet of Cloud - It's All About Applications - Girish Moodalbail, Leonid Grossman The Island of...
It's voting time! The next OpenStack Summit will be held in Tokyo, October 27-30. The Oracle OpenStack team have submitted a few papers for the summit that can now be voted for: Building and Deploying...
Security vulnerabilities are some of the hardest bugs to discover yet they can have the largest impact. At Ksplice, we spend a lot of time looking at security...
Security vulnerabilities are some of the hardest bugs to discover yet they can have the largest impact. At Ksplice, we spend a lot of time looking at security vulnerabilities and seeing how they are fixed. We use automated tools such as the Trinity syscall fuzzer and the Kernel Address Sanitizer (KASan) to aid our process. In this blog post we'll go over some case studies of recent vulnerabilities and show you how you can avoid them in your code. CVE-2013-7339 and...
Security vulnerabilities are some of the hardest bugs to discover yet they can have the largest impact. At Ksplice, we spend a lot of time looking at security vulnerabilities and seeing how they...
Oracle Linux 7 includes systemd, the new system and service manager that replaces the Upstart init daemon. While providing backward compatibility for legacy...
Oracle Linux 7 includes systemd, the new system and service manager that replaces the Upstart init daemon. While providing backward compatibility for legacy Oracle Linux 6 service scripts. systemd offers the following benefits over init: Services are started in parallel wherever possible using socket-based activation and D-Bus. Daemons can be started on demand. Processes are tracked using control groups (cgroups). Snapshotting of the system state and restoration of the system...
Oracle Linux 7 includes systemd, the new system and service manager that replaces the Upstart init daemon. While providing backward compatibility for legacy Oracle Linux 6 service scripts....
It's always interesting to see how technologies get tied together in the industry. Orgad Kimchi from the Oracle Solaris ISV engineering group has blogged about...
It's always interesting to see how technologies get tied together in the industry. Orgad Kimchi from the Oracle Solaris ISV engineering group has blogged about the combination of OpenStack and Hadoop. Hadoop is an open source project run by the Apache Foundation that provided distributed storage and compute for large data sets - in essence, the very heart of big data. In this technical How To, Orgad shows how to set up a multi-node Hadoop cluster using OpenStack by creating a...
It's always interesting to see how technologies get tied together in the industry. Orgad Kimchi from the Oracle Solaris ISV engineering group has blogged about the combination of OpenStack and Hadoop....
Girish blogged previously on the work that we've been doing to support new features with the Solaris integrations into the Neutron OpenStack networking project....
Girish blogged previously on the work that we've been doing to support new features with the Solaris integrations into the Neutron OpenStack networking project. One of these features provides a flat network topology, allowing administrators to be able to plumb VMs created through an OpenStack environment directly into an existing network infrastructure. This essentially gives administrators a choice between a more secure, dynamic network using either VLAN or VXLAN and a pool...
Girish blogged previously on the work that we've been doing to support new features with the Solaris integrations into the Neutron OpenStack networking project. One of these features provides a...
