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Julio Villarreal Pelegrino

Austin, Texas
Julio Villarreal Pelegrino
OpenStack: The Perfect Virtual Infrastructure Manager (VIM) for a Virtual Evolved Packet Core (vEPC)

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OpenStack: The Perfect Virtual Infrastructure Manager (VIM) for a Virtual Evolved Packet Core (vEPC)

I had the honor to present at OpenStack Summit Sydney. One of my presentations was with my co-worker Rimma Iontel. Here is the abstract and the video recording of the presentation. OpenStack: The Perfect Virtual Infrastructure Manager (VIM) for a Virtual Evolved Packet Core (vEPC) Virtualizing core services to reduce

By Julio Villarreal Pelegrino 29 Nov 2017
Building an Open Cloud Strategy

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Building an Open Cloud Strategy

“Choices made, whether bad or good, follow you forever and affect everyone in their path one way or another.” --J.E.B. Spredemann, An Unforgivable Secret For several years now, one of the most used words in the last couple years in every IT organization has been “cloud”. Why? Because

By Julio Villarreal Pelegrino 14 Aug 2017

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Don't Fail at Scale- How to Plan for, Build, and Operate a Successful OpenStack Cloud - Video - OpenStack Summit2017

Here is the presentation that I delivered with fellow Red Hatter Dave Costakos at OpenStack Summit Boston 2017. Here the abstract: "OpenStack is a unique set of cross-functional, fast-moving technologies that challenge the status quo in any IT organization. It has been easy to read about and buy into

By Julio Villarreal Pelegrino 17 May 2017

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Best practices for successfully deploying NFV -Video - Red Hat Summit 2017

Here is a presentation that we (Rimma Iontel) and me delivered at Red Hat Summit 2017. The topic of the presentation is "Best practices for successfully deploying NFV". Enjoy!

By Julio Villarreal Pelegrino 17 May 2017
Updating the Ghost blog platform in couple simple steps

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Updating the Ghost blog platform in couple simple steps

Hello All, This blog is running on Ghost. Here is a simple way to update the Ghost blogging platform to the latest version. 1. Stop the service running Ghost, in my case, I am using supervisord to do so: supervisorctl stop ghost 2. Create a backup of your blog content:

By Julio Villarreal Pelegrino 21 Dec 2016
What is new in Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10

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What is new in Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10

First things first, I do work for Red Hat! Now with that out of the way let’s jump into today’s blog topic: What is new in Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10! Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 was released yesterday (press release here, this new version is based on

By Julio Villarreal Pelegrino 16 Dec 2016
A quick introduction to OpenStack Heat.

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A quick introduction to OpenStack Heat.

An important component of a cloud environment is orchestration. In OpenStack, there is a program dedicated exclusively to Orchestration within the platform and the main project in this program is Heat. In this blog post, we will learn a little bit about OpenStack Heat (Heat from here on) and how

By Julio Villarreal Pelegrino 17 Nov 2016
High Availability and Pacemaker 101!

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High Availability and Pacemaker 101!

In this blog post, we will talk a little bit about High Availability and a little bit more about Pacemaker. Here are some of the topics of this post: * Introduction to High Availability (HA) and Clustering. * Benefits of Highly Available applications. * How HA is implemented on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

By Julio Villarreal Pelegrino 16 Nov 2016
Selecting the right storage backend for your OpenStack cloud.

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Selecting the right storage backend for your OpenStack cloud.

Embracing OpenStack or any other Infrastructure-As-A-Service (IaaS) platform should not be the only decision to take on the road to building your private cloud. Selecting the right cloud components like server hardware, network (architecture and topology), and storage backend is crucial to creating an OpenStack cloud architecture that will meet

By Julio Villarreal Pelegrino 02 Sep 2016
Architecting your first OpenStack cloud.

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Architecting your first OpenStack cloud.

OpenStack is the most popular open-source cloud computing platform to build and manage infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) environments. Since its inception in 2010 by Rackspace Hosting and NASA this project has gained popularity and positioned itself as a reliable alternative to proprietary IaaS platforms. Now under the management of the OpenStack Foundation

By Julio Villarreal Pelegrino 11 Aug 2016

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10 things to do after installing Fedora 24.

In this post, I will cover the top 10 things to do after a fresh install of Fedora 24. In my case I use a Fedora workstation spin (Fedora 24 Cinnamon) and here are the things that I do after a fresh install: 1. Set the hostname## [root@unknownbcaec58e9edd ~]# hostnamectl

By Julio Villarreal Pelegrino 27 Jun 2016
Upgrading to Fedora 24.

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Upgrading to Fedora 24.

In today post I will show you how to upgrade to Fedora 24 from Fedora 23. The first thing that we are going to check the current version of Fedora and also apply any patches to the system: root@desktop-quebolon-local:[~]#cat /etc/redhat-release Fedora release 23 (Twenty Three) root@desktop-quebolon-local:

By Julio Villarreal Pelegrino 27 Jun 2016
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