Reverse proxy is widely used to access services in internal sites, or forward HTTPS request to HTTP server in the backend. This series of blogs will introduce how to setup ngix reverse proxy for Apache CloudStack services, including Management server, Console Proxy VM and Secondary Storage VM.

Cephadm is is the new official Ceph installer, which is more recommended. If you have a ceph cluster deployed by ceph-ansible, and wish to convert it to Cephadm-managed cluster, ceph-ansible provides to a playbook cephadm-adopt.yml to adopt the cluster by cephadm.

I used ceph-ansible to deploy several Ceph 15 (octopus) and Ceph 17 (quincy) environments on Ubuntu 22.04 and Rocky 8 in the past, which worked well after some code changes. Recently I successfully deployed a Ceph 18 (reef) environment on Ubuntu 22.04 using ceph-ansible (again!). Overall it worked pretty well. I am sharing my steps in this article.

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Please refer to CloudStack - Create Windows 11 VM instance on Ubuntu (Update 2025.03)

The article CloudStack – VM with vTPM and Secure boot UEFI introduces how to create a VM with vTPM and UEFI on CentOS x host using Apache CloudStack. However, it does not work on Ubuntu releases [2]. This blog introduces how to create Window 11 VMs step by step.

This blog introduces how to build own blog using Github Pages. With Jekyll I have easily built my own blog.