Let’s look at a hybrid app running Big Data analysis using a combination of components running on bare metal, in virtual machines, and in containers.

One of the more significant additions to Mirantis OpenStack 8.0 is integration of OpenStack Ironic into Fuel, so we thought it would be a good idea to talk about what Ironic is and how it can give you bare metal performance with virtualization convenience.

Articles and tutorials in the “Edge of the Stack” series cover fundamental programming issues and concerns that might not come up when dealing with OpenStack directly, but are certainly relevant to the OpenStack ecosystem. For example, bare metal provisioning requires the ability to programmatically turn a machine on or off, which is handled using IPMI. When computer networks grew large, the …