As we’ve mentioned in previous articles, the Selectel Virtual Private Cloud is built on the OpenStack platform.
A lot of our clients are already used to using Ansible, a configuration management system that lets you automate routine tasks. Among its other advantages, Ansible already has a wealth of ready-made modules available, including those for automating processes with OpenStack components (list of modules). Read more
We recently wrote about our switch to a new platform, which has let us make big improvements to our Cloud Storage. We talked about how we developed our storage’s logic and architecture, as well as how we rewrote several components in Go, which makes our storage even faster and more stable than before.
Big News: We’ve rewritten our Cloud Storage API! The system is much more stable and quicker thanks to the new platform, Hummingbird. Hummingbird is essentially an implementation of several OpenStack Swift components written in Go. We’ll discuss how we implemented hummingbird and what problems it helped us solve in this article.