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Crowbar near-term features: increasing DevOps mojo and brewing Diablo
We’ve been so busy working on getting RHEL support ready to drop into the Crowbar repos that I have not had time to post about what’s coming next for Crowbar. The RHEL addition has required a...
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Crowbar modularization work begins
I shared the following with the Crowbar listserv and wanted to post it for the larger audience. If you want the latest on Crowbar then subscribe! We’ve been getting questions and defects (thanks Matt...
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Technical details of pending Crowbar changes
We’re testing a HUGE batch of changes to Crowbar before we commit them. The changes support the barclamp modularization work and also include the addition of RHEL and network barclamp update. You may...
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Crowbar modularized: latest changes that make clouds even easier to create,...
In the last week, my team at Dell completed a major refactoring of Crowbar that significantly improves our ability to bring in community contributions and field customizations. Today, we merged it...
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Video of how-to Create a barclamp (15 mins)
This video reflects the steps in the earlier Barclamp How-to post and adds some color commentary.
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Dell is open sourcing Crowbar Apache Hadoop barclamps!
I’m very excited to announce that my team at Dell will be open sourcing our Apache Hadoop Crowbar barclamps by the end of the month. This release raises the bar on open Hadoop deployments by making...
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Barclamps: now with added portability!
I had a question about moving barclamps between solutions. Since Victor just changed the barclamp build to create a tar for each barclamp (with the debs/rpms), I thought it was the perfect time to...
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Cloudera Manager Barclamp posted! (part of updated Dell | Cloudera Apache...
My team at Dell has been driving to transparency and openness around Crowbar plus our OpenStack and Hadoop powered solutions. Specifically, our work for our coming release is maintained in the open on...
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Crowbar source released, includes OpenStack Cloud install
I’m delighted to announce (official version) that my team at Dell has opened the Crowbar source under the Apache 2 license. This action is part of the broader Dell OpenStack Cloud Solution which...
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Crowbar community support and 111111 sprint plan
The Dell Crowbar team is working to improve road map transparency. In the last few weeks, the Crowbar community has become more active on our lists, testing builds, and helping with documentation. We...
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