April 2017

AXIA Maintenance and/or Network Upgrade – Calgary Meet Me

Category: Scheduled Axia maintenance Start Time: Wednesday, April 26, 2017, 00:01 MDT End Time: Wednesday, April 26, 2017, 06:00 MDT Duration: 60 Minutes During the time frame indicated above, Axia will be performing maintenance on their network in Calgary. The outage duration should be less than the total duration of the reserved maintenance window and […]

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Using Terraform: Part 2

Introduction Part 1 ofย this seriesย gave a high-level overview of what Terraform is. Today’s post will demonstrate how to use Terraform to build out actual cloud resources using Cybera’s Rapid Access Cloud. Preparation If you’d like to follow along, you’ll need two things Terraform Access to a Rapid Access Cloud account (or any other OpenStack cloud)

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Introducing Terraform: Part 1

Introduction Terraform is a tool from Hashicorp, the same startup responsible for Vagrant and Consul, that enables users to “declaratively design” infrastructure and have those designs materialize into working components. This series will cover what exactly that means, why Terraform is so interesting, and how to use it. Declarative Configuration Declarative Configuration is a way of describing the state

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New Google connection in Calgary will speed up (and lower costs) of internet for all Albertans

Twenty years ago, the first Internet Exchange (IX) was set up in Canada (in Toronto). It was soon followed by a second, in Ottawa. Today, Canada has eight IXโ€™s, including two here in Alberta – the YEGIX in Edmonton, and the YYCIX in Calgary. Why this explosion of exchange points? Because Canadians are tired of

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