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El-Deko - Why Containers Are Worth the Hype

Video above from Kubernetes 1.0 Launch event at OSCON [http://www.oscon.com/open-source-2015] In the above video, I attempted to put Red Hat’s container efforts into a bit of context, especially with respect to our history of Linux platform development. Having now watched the above video (they forc

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ManageIQ with vSphere - Deploy and Configure

Found a really great blog post, all about deploying ManageIQ within a VSphere environment written by Jason Gaudreau: ManageIQ was made open source last summer; since it is a free download, I decided to try it out in my lab environment. I have it ma...

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ManageIQ Botvinnik is Here - Control All the Things

We're very happy to announce that ManageIQ Botvinnik is now generally available [http://manageiq.org/download/]. This marks the first full release cycle for ManageIQ as an open source project. As mentioned in previous announcements, we name our releases alphabetically after chess world champions. Fo

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All About Botvinnik Webinar - June 9

RSVP for the Botvinnik webinar! We're quickly coming up on the official release of ManageIQ Botvinnik. If you're curious about what are the most important additions to ManageIQ and how to use them, come to our online meetup next week where we'll walk ...

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Additions to Planet ManageIQ

If you've been visiting Planet ManageIQ recently, you know we've made some additions: All Things Open - James Labocki's blog covering lots of ground on open source cloud infrastructure software and cloud management in general The Foreman Blog - W...

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Botvinnik RC3 is here

The next Botvinnik release candidate, RC3, is now ready for download. Either use the site's download workflow or pick what you want from the list of available images. Report issues in this thread and link to the GitHub issue URL. If this one proves r...

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Agenda for ManageIQ User Day at OpenStack Summit

As I mentioned in a previous blog post, we are having a day to ourselves on Wednesday, May 20 at the upcoming OpenStack Summit in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia. We've been prepping and now have an agenda: 1:50 - 2:30 pm - Managing OpenSta...

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ManageIQ Community Sprints - Now with Trello

If you've been participating in our sprint reports, you've no doubt found them to be an excellent way to stay apprised of feature progress in ManageIQ. I'm happy to announce that our community activities are now part of the 3-week sprints and included ...

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ManageIQ at OpenStack Summit

I'm pleased to announce that the ManageIQ project will have a big showing at the upcoming OpenStack Summit in Vancouver, British Columbia. Here are the activities we have on tap: Monday, May 18: Birds of a feather - an hour-long extravaganza where ...

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Podcast - All About the Jellyfish Cloud Broker

I sat down with Chris Hample and Chris Kacerguis from Booz Allen Hamilton to discuss their newest release of the Jellyfish Cloud Broker, which is at version 2 as of this writing.

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Community Depot is Live - and in BETA

We can now take the covers off of the ManageIQ Community Depot and show it to you live. Just understand it's in beta and may (will) have some bugs. The Depot is where you can share, download and collaborate on extensions and other software built for Ma...

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RESTapi - A teach yourself lab

Here is a lab I put together for a recent event, it was well received and I think it is very valuable to the ManageIQ and CloudForms user bases. In the lab you will GET and POST RESTapi actions. Its a basic look at some common use cases such as, Query ...

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CLOUDFORMS 5.3.0 GEM List

Here is the list of GEMs and their info that are included in the CLOUDFORMS 5.3.0 appliance. I thought it would be useful to post, I need this recently for some work I am doing. It was really easy as most things in CLOUDFORMS usually are I simply wrote some ruby to utilise an existing… Read Original

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How to Contribute to the ManageIQ Depot

The ManageIQ Depot will be where community members can collaborate, share and download extensions and other software developed for the ManageIQ hybrid cloud management platform. I made a quick video showing how to grab the latest depot code from GitHub...

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ManageIQ Community Welcomes Navteca and Synnefo

It is our pleasure to announce that two new members have joined the ManageIQ Community: Synnefo and Navteca. Both of these partners attended the recent Design Summit, where they succombed to the enthusiasm and decided to join up with the rest of ...

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The Extensions Depot Needs You - Call for Participation

We are happy to announce that we are moving forward with the ManageIQ Extensions Depot! The Extensions Depot is a place for the ManageIQ Community to share policies, dialogs, state machines and other items of interest to the greater community. As we...

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ManageIQ Design Summit Preview - Come Fleece with Us

Next week is the first ever ManageIQ Design Summit, and the agenda looks great - a real opportunity to learn more about cloud management in general, and how we're shapping the roadmap of ManageIQ in particular. Here are some of the highlights of what...

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Podcast with JD Calder, Cox Automotive

Cox Automotive (nee Autotrader Group) is a founding member of the ManageIQ Community. JD Calder talked about their contributions and what you can look forward to at the Design Summit. Cox Automotive has been a long-time ManageIQ/CloudForms user an...

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Podcast 4 with Jarid and Nirmal from Booz Allen

Jarid and Nirmal brought their late night act to the podcast, talking up their cloud broker software, open source in the cloud, and the role ManageIQ played in helping them tie it all together. Booz Allen Hamilton is a founding member of the Manag...

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Jason Frey Podcast - Design Summit, Fleecing, Security, and Plugability

Jason Frey is a long-time contributor and architect for the ManageIQ and CloudForms world. If you want to know anything about ManageIQ, he's your guy. Watch and learn from the following video. After talking with Jason, you begin to understand just ...

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Open source more about process than licensing

It is a testament to the success of the Open Source Initiative's (OSI) branding campaign for open source software that "open source" and "licensing" are functionally synonymous. To the extent that people are familiar with open source software, it is the source code released under a license that lets

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Avoid Shellshock and the Bash Plague with ManageIQ

Unless you've been under a rock the last few days, you've no doubt heard of the Shellshock vulnerability affecting a large number of *nix machines with the Bash shell installed. Note: Bash doesn't even need to be the default shell - plenty of 'Dash' users are also affected. Luckily, there's a way to

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From Russia with Tenderlove - ManageIQ Podcast

Aaron Patterson joined us from Russia on this fun podcast, covering many topics, from the Rails 4 migration and the ManageIQ Design Summit to why you should "just use Ruby". You can see Aaron and lots of other smart people at the upcoming ManageIQ D...

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Design Summit Podcast - Brad Ascar and John Hardy

John Hardy and Brad Ascar stopped by the studio to discuss their talks at the upcoming ManageIQ Design Summit on October 7 & 8 in Mahwah, NJ John and Brad's upcoming talks: Fisher Price: My First State Machine - John Hardy Navigating the M...

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Breaking: Tenderlove to Discuss Rails 4 Migration Plans at Design Summit

If you're headed to the ManageIQ Design Summit on October 7 & 8, you're in for a treat. Aaron Patterson (@tenderlove) will be leading a session in the design track on the topic of migrating ManageIQ to Ruby on Rails 4. One of the things Aaron wil...