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OpenBSD private cloud computing

Contributed by jason on from the almost-virtually-private dept.

Van Dung Ha writes in to ask for advice from the community:

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Dear loyal OpenBSD Journal readers,

I am planning to setup my own private cloud. It will have dedicated VPS' with preferably OpenBSD for firewall, ldap, monitoring en database and Linux for apache web server frontends. Therefore, I am looking for a webhosting party which delivers OpenBSD/Linux private cloud computing.

Is there anybody out there who can get me in touch with such a party?

Kind regards,
Van Dung Ha

”

Editor's Note: Many of our readers are familiar with OpenBSD-friendly VPS operations like ARP Networks and RootBSD, but I'm not sure which, if any, offer custom private cloud networks. Do you have experience with any vendors that offer this package? What have your experiences been?

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  1. By Dan Farrell (danstermeister) danstermeister@gmail.com on dannosite.com

    I don't want to go and just advertise the company I work for, but we can definitely accommodate that. If it's deemed alright to do so, I'll reply back with additional info... I just don't want to come off like I'm spamming the post :) .



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    1. By jason (jason) on http://obfuscurity.com/

      Go for it. If it's too egregious we can moderate it. :)

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      1. By Dan Farrell (danstermeister) on dannosbeerblog@blogspot.com

        > Go for it. If it's too egregious we can moderate it. :)

        Cool, I'll try to keep this short...
        Applied Innovations (appliedi.net) uses Microsoft HyperV to host clusters of Windows vps', and that's what we advertise currently. However, we can easily do OpenBSD as well... I have multiple OBSD48-i386 vps' on our clusters. Additionally, each vps is contained within it's own discreet routed vlan environment, and a single client can utilize a single vlan for multiple vps' (the 'shared private cloud'), even across physical HyperV clusters (everything's networked together).

        We can also provision and manage standalone private physical HyperV clusters for clients.


  2. By afterboot(8) (afterboot) afterboot@gmail.com on twitter.com/afterboot

    you can also give a chance to http://csoft.net/

  3. By jason (jason) jason@dixongroup.net on http://obfuscurity.com/

    I got in touch with the ARP Networks folks via Twitter yesterday. They say that all VPS ordered under the same account use a private VLAN on the backend by default. Theoretically this could be used for your own private "cloud" by simply downing the public interfaces of your protected hosts and routing through a single OpenBSD firewall.

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    1. By Dan Farrell (danstermeister) on dannosbeerblog@blogspot.com

      > I got in touch with the ARP Networks folks via Twitter yesterday. They say that all VPS ordered under the same account use a private VLAN on the backend by default. Theoretically this could be used for your own private "cloud" by simply downing the public interfaces of your protected hosts and routing through a single OpenBSD firewall.

      If the public interfaces of the VM's all belong to the same client vlan, then you don't have to down them- you can use the 'public-facing' to route to an OBSD firewall in the same VLAN (in the manner you described), and still leave the 'private-facing' for non-routed traffic (like web-sql traffic).

  4. By Hubert Tournier (HubTou) hubert@frbsd.org on http://www.frbsd.org/fr/

    Hello,

    With our Virtual-to-Remote-Physical installation method (dubbed V2RP), you can probably use *any* dedicated server provider to host your own private cloud computing, whether they offer OpenBSD installations or not.

    Then, you might want to have a look at our own cloud computing project, called HeV, as a source of inspiration for what you're wishing to do (it's fully open source, but built around FreeBSD and VirtualBox OSE).

    Best regards,

    Hubert

  5. By Robert Jenkins (rj-cloudsigma) robert@cloudsigma.com on http://www.cloudsigma.com

    To add another vendor perspective into the discussion. We offer cloud server with fully open software and networking layers. In other words you can run any operating system with full (sole) root access. We have many BSD customers as well as Windows and Linux users. We also don't have any fixed instance sizes either so you can combine CPU, RAM, storage etc. in a flexible unbundled way.

    We have a 7 day free trial, you don't need a credit card or anything. Currently our cloud is based in Zurich, Switzerland but we are adding a US west coast location currently plus more to follow during the course of this year.

    Feel free to sign-up for a free trial at https://cs.cloudsigma.com/accounts/signup/ .

    Feedback as ever is very much appreciated.

    Kind regards,

    Robert
    CTO
    CloudSigma

  6. By Anonymous Coward (anon) on

    It would be helpful if the various companies posting here could indicate if they have *actually* tried OpenBSD, which versions they have tried, and whether any changes (e.g. different kernel configuration) were necessary.

    Comments

    1. By Dan Farrell (danstermeister) danstermeister@gmail.com on dannosite.com

      > It would be helpful if the various companies posting here could indicate if they have *actually* tried OpenBSD, which versions they have tried, and whether any changes (e.g. different kernel configuration) were necessary.

      I have 12 virtual machines running 4.7 and 4.8 i386 32-bit on Windows HyperV at AppliedI.net . I tried amd64 the other day and ran into problems with the networking, but only looked at it for a moment before moving on to something else.

    2. By Hubert Tournier (HubTou) on http://www.frbsd.org/fr/

      Hello,
      I'm not a company, I'm a Free man :-)
      I tested running OpenBSD/amd64 v4.8 in VirtualBox this very morning.
      So it should work either as a VM in a HeV host (Intel VT needed) or as a system to install through V2RP.
      Best regards,
      Hubert

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