Infrastructure

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…

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…

How to deploy a DHCP server in a Linode VLAN

When a VLAN is assigned to a network interface and given an IPAM address, the Compute Instance should automatically be able to communicate over that private network. This is due to Network Helper, which is enabled by default on most instances….

Deploying Linode Marketplace StackScripts with Terraform

Recently, I needed to deploy a 3 node Redis Cluster from Linode’s Marketplace. Quick glance at Linode’s Terraform provider shows that we can deploy instances using StackScripts, but in order to do that, we need to specify the StackScript ID….

Building your IT landscape on Akamai Connected Cloud – Part 2 – Defining the project

Related posts Part 1 – Intro Part 2 – this post Welcome to the second part of the “Building your IT landscape on Akamai Connected Cloud” series. In this post we will define the basic scenario and requirements for our…