OpenStack - Understanding The Architecture

Posted on Wed 18 December 2013 in Linux • Tagged with Cloud Computing, Nova, Openstack, Openstack Architecture

OpenStack is a cloud computing project to provide an Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS), jointly launched by RackSpace and NASA. A collection of open-source technologies combined together make it a massively scalable cloud operating system. One big quality of OpenStack is it’s simplicity, anyone can easily tie-up different hosts …


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Understanding init.d Directory In Linux Filesystem.

Posted on Sat 07 December 2013 in Linux • Tagged with Linux Filesystem

init.d is the sub-directory of /etc directory in Linux file system. init.d basically contains the bunch of start/stop scripts which are used to control (start,stop,reload,restart) the daemon while the system is running or during boot. If you look at /etc/init.d then you …


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