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How cloud solutions ensure resilience in times of crisis

How cloud solutions ensure resilience in times of crisis

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Crises are no longer the exception, but part of the new normal. Geopolitical uncertainties, energy crises, natural disasters or cyber attacks: companies are under more pressure than ever to remain stable and capable of acting. Times like these show how resilient an organization really is. The cloud is a crucial building block for this resilience. It makes it possible to react flexibly to changes, secure critical systems and maintain business processes even in exceptional situations. In this...

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Immutable Backups with S3: How to Protect Your Data

Immutable Backups with S3: How to Protect Your Data

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Object Storage offers a number of technical features that can look complicated and seemingly superfluous when taken out of context. When combined, however, they become extremely handy for certain use‑cases - ​for example, immutable backups with S3. In this hands‑on...

VM rescue on OpenStack

VM rescue on OpenStack

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Accidentally terminated the SSH service, deleted the boot partition, or complications after updating the operating system? Most of us have stood in front of an inaccessible, misconfigured or otherwise broken server at some point and no longer had access. Fortunately,...

LUKS encrypted storage on OpenStack

LUKS encrypted storage on OpenStack

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Conscientiously securing your IT landscape has become increasingly important in recent years. With a steady increase in (user) data that needs to be managed, processed and stored, encrypting this data should be on your agenda for a holistically secured IT...

Migration of servers on VMware to OpenStack

Migration of servers on VMware to OpenStack

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In this tutorial we look at migrating servers on VMware to OpenStack. Following the recent acquisition of VMware by Broadcom, many smaller Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) have received notices to terminate their membership in VMWare's partner program in recent weeks....

Terraform and OpenStack

Terraform and OpenStack

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Many of you are probably already familiar with the use of Terraform in combination with Azure or AWS. And although these are the most commonly used platforms, there are uncertainties - often with regard to data protection (GDPR) - and therefore still a need for...

Monitoring for machines with Icinga 2 Master

Monitoring for machines with Icinga 2 Master

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With our OpenStack Cloud, it is child's play to set up your own environment according to your own ideas. Start a few machines quickly and easily using Terraform, make the service available to the outside world via an attached floating IP and associated security group...

Start the project and create the first server

Start the project and create the first server

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We are celebrating success with our new cloud environment - performance, stability, flexibility and low prices are impressing our customers. However, the multitude of functions can be overwhelming for some users when using it for the first time. However, we are happy...

Backup and snapshot

Backup and snapshot

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Sooner or later, everyone who runs a server will probably reach the point where the VM (or parts of it) are irreversibly "torn apart" - for whatever reason.Anyone who has dedicated themselves to backing up their data in advance now has a clear advantage and can expect...

Scaling on demand

Scaling on demand

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Depending on the type of in-house production, it may be worthwhile for some server operators to automatically create virtual machines for a certain period of time using a script and - once the work is done - to delete them again just as automatically; for example, if...

Manage and assign security groups

Manage and assign security groups

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Once you have clicked on the first new instance in our cloud web interface and assigned an SSH public key with which you want to connect to this VM, you are faced with the small problem that you cannot access the instance from outside; we have the "default" security...

Create and use S3 object storage

Create and use S3 object storage

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In times of high availability and multiple web servers, central data storage, data security and fast access times must be harmonized. This is precisely why more and more users are now using technologies that lure them in with buzzwords such as S3, buckets, object...

Corosync Cluster with Failover IP

Corosync Cluster with Failover IP

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One of the first customer requirements you usually read is: High availability. It has long been the norm to ensure that the project can still be reached without any problems even in the event of partial failures and that single points of failure are avoided. A...

The ABCs of the cloud

The ABCs of the cloud

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The NETWAYS Group offers a very wide range of services and products relating to the development, management, automation and monitoring of IT infrastructure in the open source sector. We operate a hardware store, hold training courses, organize conferences, provide...