• Ubuntu,  Unix

    Installing the Docker for OpenStack Heat

    Docker is an engine that automates deploying applications as highly portable, self-sufficient containers, independent of hardware, language, framework, packaging system and hosting provider. Heat is the main project used when it comes to OpenStack orchestration. There is a Docker plugin for Heat. To install this plugin, you’ll need to use the stable/icehouse branch (which seems like what’s made the tool so mature rather than simply being available for Nova) to install Heat via apt-get install. Once downloaded, extract the contrib/docker folder and delete the tests directory. Then copy the contrib/docker folder to the OpenStack controller. Here we’ll put it at /usr/lib/heat directory. This results in the path of /usr/lib/heat/docker/docker. Next, install python-pip:…

  • iPhone,  Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mac Security

    What Happens When An iPhone Overheats

    I know I’ve mentioned before that when the temperature drops below -10 the heat from my hands is sometimes not enough to keep my phone working and that it can stop running. Officially, the iPhone needs to run between -4º to 113º F. I learned this the hard way (I tend to learn most things the hard way, I like to think of it as a trait, or something like that) when I left my phone sitting in my car. Not only does it get cold as all getout in Minneapolis, but it can get pretty hot as well. And as with any location in mid-summer, if you leave your…