Index | Cloud Foundry Docs. Cloud Foundry · GitHub. An OpenStack Security Guide in Five Days | Cloudscaling Engineering. Last week, I had the privilege of being involved in the authorship of a book. It was an intense and amazing experience and I’m still surprised that it worked, that we successfully outlined, wrote, and edited a book in only 5 days!
Our outcome was the OpenStack Security Guide, a 154 page instructional on securing cloud deployments. This was a collaboration of individuals from Cloudpassage, Cloudscaling, HP, Intel, John Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, the NSA, Nebula, Nicira (VMware), Rackspace, and RedHat. In writing, we managed to squeeze in practical guidance on configuration topics that were previously undocumented or otherwise “hidden” features, such as using SSL client certificates for MySQL authentication. (Thanks Nathanael Burton!) We also found a number of feature requests, questions-to-investigate-later, plus some serious and not-so-serious bugs. I note, most of the feature requests, concerns, and bugs were found in the first day. Download: OpenStack Security Guide (ePub)
Cloud Mgt & Config. IaaS Infrastructure Integrator Tools. VMware. US Government Cloud Computing Technology Roadmap. Cloud Computing. Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. This cloud model promotes availability and is composed of five essential characteristics (On-demand self-service, Broad network access, Resource pooling, Rapid elasticity, Measured Service); three service models (Cloud Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS), Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)); and, four deployment models (Private cloud, Community cloud, Public cloud, Hybrid cloud). Key enabling technologies include: (1) fast wide-area networks, (2) powerful, inexpensive server computers, and (3) high-performance virtualization for commodity hardware.
The Cloud Computing model offers the promise of massive cost savings combined with increased IT agility.