Christine Alifrangis

Tag: bash

Python: Creating a System Info App

This project took significantly longer to develop than expected, but I’m proud to share my thoughts and process in developing this applet. The code evolved into a two-part tool that can be run from the command line or as a daemon. The code collects system information, reports it back to an API, and stores the […]

System Info Collector

Tool to capture System Information from Windows and *nix hosts and store it in a database – GitHub –

uploadImage to Glance

One of the more tedious constant tasks in Openstack, especially if you’re using CI/CD, is to update images. Here’s a little script to make this just a little easier for you. NOTE: On some versions of Ubuntu, the Read command doesn’t work exactly as expected (I haven’t put the effort in to fine-tune this) so […]

Deleting failed volume attachments in Openstack

This bash script will delete failed volume attachments / volumes from a stack in Openstack. Why? Sometimes Heat can fail to delete a stack for a variety of different reasons: The volume is in use, the VM failed to stop, the volume went into an error state, or Heat sent a message to RabbitMQ which […]