Abiquo’s hybrid cloud platform adds Docker monitoring and anti-affinity to its comprehensive multi tenant, multi NIC and managed storage features. Get Docker out from under the desk and into the Data Center!
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
In Abiquo environments, it’s common for the Cloud Admin to have permissions to access every VM on the platform. However, sometimes it’s not easy to get into these systems. Imagine you have a virtual machine that has lost connectivity, VNC is unavaliable, it’s corrupted or you don’t know the login and password to get some […]
