Last week, OpenStack celebrated its seventh birthday, sponsored by Red Hat in Barcelona. Abiquo Senior Software Engineer Ignasi Barrera presented Abiquo’s integration with OpenStack’s Neutron component. As an open source and modular project, OpenStack can be used beyond its own stack, so Abiquo has adopted Neutron as the preferred SDN solution for KVM based cloud […]
Cloud isn’t just about technology Offering a cloud service is not only about deploying VM instances, managing templates or delivering DevOps agility to your organisation. When you decide to productise and customise your cloud service, you need to think about other collateral actions that will directly contribute to the success of your cloud project. Features such […]
You might have heard about Ansible recently, but if you haven’t, we recommend that you have a look at the Ansible official website. To summarize using Ansible’s own description: “Ansible is a radically simple IT orchestration engine that automates configuration management, application deployment, and many other IT needs” Abiquo has a native Chef integration (Chef […]
Some time ago, we had a couple of inquiries about support for running KVM hypervisors with Open vSwitch (OVS). Older versions of OVS included the brcompat module, which made OVS work with regular Linux bridges instead of its own virtual switches. This meant Abiquo would behave as if it were using regular bridges. However, with […]
Most of the examples we have provided of how to interact with the Abiquo API are written in Python, so now it’s time to put some rubies in our blog. We will show you how to use Ruby to interact with Abiquo APIs. First we will consume events by connecting to the Outbound API, but […]
When developing Abiquo v2.6, simplicity and functionality was the focus and the workflow acceptance tool has achieved just that. The new workflow feature will allow you to create your own tools to interact with Abiquo processes at the very same moment they are being executed. In short, during certain Abiquo tasks, Abiquo will send an […]
Abiquo v2.6 release has launched earlier this week, it is Abiquo’s most anticipated release to date and we encourage you all to download and try it out. To give you some background; the 2.4 release really focused on ensuring that we dealt with any scalability barriers detected in our stress tests. With v2.6 the focus has been on […]
Guest blogger: Alex Heneveld, CTO at CloudSoft We recently had the pleasure of hosting a visit from Abiquo; pleasurable because it quickly morphed into a hackathon with Xavier Fernandez which yielded a nicely working integration. A long flight gave me the chance to clean it up and make a Brooklyn pull request (#813) with the net result that Abiquo is now […]
One of the key aspects of every software product is the quality of the product itself. This is often measured by taking the number of bugs, performance metrics, the amount of memory needed to run it, and shown to the world in the form of attractive reports and graphics. However, there is one aspect that […]
Now that you can download Abiquo and get a 30-day trial license, you may like to automate the deployment of a new datacenter in your Abiquo environment. I’ll explain here how to automatically deploy Abiquo using Cobbler. First of all, you need to get Cobbler up and running. I’m not going to explain here how […]
