If you have recently deployed Openstack Caracal with RDO Packstack you may run into a problem when you first load the Horizon Dashboard. If you get the “Something went wrong” text instead of the regular login page even though Packstack finished successfully check the following. Try the following: 3. Replace django.core.cache.backends.memcached.MemcachedCache 4. With django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache It… Read More


Learn to write your own applications for fun and profit. Here are quality free resources online that I can personally vouch for. I get nothing for suggesting these websites.… Read More


How to add Image to Glance For the impatient: Microstack is admittedly not my favorite way to deploy openstack, probably because it takes some getting used to. Running openstack services in isolated containers makes things more secure, easier to deploy, homogeneous.. there are so many obvious reasons Canonical did it this way. But it is… Read More


A video of this process is also below. Scroll Down to find it. Turnkey Linux is a very convenient way to obtain a very large assortment of pre-made virtual appliances for many different virtualization platforms, including Openstack. However deploying the appliances to Openstack is a bit more involved then other platforms.  Here I will try to… Read More


Quick Video to setup Centos 7 during a fresh installation for RDO Packstack Juno so that you have more storage space. By default RDO Packstack uses the root partition for Openstack leaving the bulk of your hard drive space unused. In this short video we will re arrange partition space to use this to our… Read More