Linode, Windows instances and Metadata service
Even though Windows instances aren’t officially supported on Linode, there are ways to get a Windows based instance up and running (a bit of googling will help you around that). Once you deployed your Windows instance, you will notice that…
Powershell module for Linode – Akamai Connected Cloud
Even though I consider myself as being “platform-agnostic”, I originally come from a Microsoft side of the industry and because of that I had a lot of exposure to PowerShell. After a relatively steep learning curve, I realized that PowerShell…
Deploying a GLOBAL sentiment Analysis service using DeepSparse and Akamai Connected Cloud
In the previous post, we explored how to deploy a sentiment analysis application using Neural Magic’s DeepSparse on Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode). We leveraged just two dual-core VMs and a Nodebalancer to process a pretty impressive number(40K) of movie reviews…
Easy way to deploy Linode instances across all (core) regions using Terraform
In preparations for a upcoming blog post related to running AI workloads on Akamai Connected Cloud, I needed to deploy instances in all available Linode regions. Since there’s no way that I’ll manually create a list of regions, I thought…
Sentiment analysis of 40 thousand movie reviews in 20 minutes using Neural Magic’s DeepSparse inference runtime and Linode virtual machines.
First, let me start with a word or two about DeepSparse. DeepSparse is a sparsity-aware inference runtime that delivers GPU-class performance on commodity CPUs, purely in software, anywhere. GPUs Are Not Optimal – Machine learning inference has evolved over the…
Deploying HarperDB Docker container on Linode VM using Terraform and cloud-init
This blog post is a small update to the excellent post guys from HarperDB wrote – https://www.harperdb.io/development/tutorials/deploying-harperdb-on-digital-ocean-linode-with-terraform Since Linode now support cloud-init and metadata service, I decided to extend their example by using cloud-init to do the installation of Docker…
Assigning a firewall to Linode NodeBalancer using Terraform and Cloud Manager.
Linode has finally rolled out support to assign a firewall device to a NodeBalancer (Linode’s managed load balancing service)! Assigning a firewall via CloudManager is quite easy and self-explanatory. Create a firewall, add the rules you need and simply select…
Fix Linode Windows VM IP configuration using Windows SAC console and Lish.
Today I decided to migrate my Windows VM running on Linode from Paris region to Amsterdam region. After kicking off the migration through the Cloud Manager (which took <15 minutes), my instance wasn’t responding to any network requests. Problem was…
From zero to WordPress in less than 2 minutes on Linode using cloud-init and/or Terraform
Yeah, it’s true. You can get a fully running VM with installed MySQL, Apache, PHP and WordPress configured in less than 2 minutes! 1:58 to be exact 🙂 Ok, what is cloud-init in the first place? Cloud-init is a widely…
Building your IT landscape on Akamai Connected Cloud – Part 3 – Writing down requirements
Part 1 – Intro Part 2 – Defining the project Part 3 – this post Welcome to the third post of “Building your IT landscape on Akamai Connected Cloud” series. In this post we will start writing and breaking down our FR’s…