Jason B (He/Him/His)

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Jason was an Opensource.com staff member and Red Hatter from 2013 to 2022. This profile contains his work-related articles from that time. Other contributions can be found on his personal account.

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Authored Content

Deploying OpenStack made easy with Puppet

When it comes to managing infrastructure deployments of a certain size, even a ninja sysadmin can't do it all without some help. In fact, one might argue that knowing when and…

Five new, excellent OpenStack tutorials

Launching a private cloud on open source software might seem like a daunting task, but fortunately, the OpenStack community is working hard to provide resources and tutorials…

How to do open research: 5 basic principles

Now in print: O'Reilly OpenStack Operations Guide

Written by several members of the OpenStack community, the O'Reilly OpenStack Operations Guide is a paper version of the excellent guide available in the OpenStack docs…

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TryStack makes OpenStack experimentation easy

When it comes to software, the best way to learn something new, or even just figure out if it's the right tool for you, is to dig your hands in, get dirty, and try it out. For…

OpenStack Icehouse brings new features for the enterprise

Deploying an open source enterprise cloud just got a little bit easier yesterday with the release of the newest version of the OpenStack platform: Icehouse. To quote an email…

Giving rise to the cloud with OpenStack Heat

Setting up an application server in the cloud isn't that hard if you're familiar with the tools and your application's requirements. But what if you needed to do it dozens or…

Authored Comments

Jason B

25 Jul 2014

Celebrating sysadmins in the cloudy future

Well, hopefully their system administrator is at least out having a good time. :)

Jason B

3 Jul 2014

Five new how-to guides for mastering OpenStack

Hi Preeth, a great place to ask this kind of question is on ask.openstack.org. Or, at many times of the day you'll find the #OpenStack channel on Freenode IRC to be actively monitored by folks willing to help. Good luck!