SDN Development Environment
The pieces I used to build a small SDN development environment for OpenStack, Open vSwitch, Mininet, and Ryu.
Graphite Events with a Timestamp
A small Graphite Events tip for sending explicit timestamps with deployment and operational events.
My OpenStack Paris Summit Sessions
Links to my OpenStack Paris Summit sessions, slides, and videos.
nsxchecker: Verify the health of your NSX network
Introducing nsxchecker, a Python tool for quickly checking the operational health of NSX logical networks.
Operating OpenStack: Monitoring RabbitMQ
OpenStack RabbitMQ monitoring scenarios and checks that help operators catch message broker problems before they spread.
Monitoring Edge Node Network Configuration
A checklist of Open vSwitch and XenServer networking details I wanted monitored on hypervisors and edge nodes.
On Failure
A few notes on failure papers I found through The Datacenter as a Computer.
On Working Remote
My early lessons from going remote, including what worked across IRC, tmux, voice, and video calls.
Required Reading: The Datacenter as a Computer
Why The Datacenter as a Computer is still useful reading for understanding large-scale infrastructure design.
Upgrading Open vSwitch
Notes from upgrading Open vSwitch and the operational care needed around networking changes.