[openstack-dev] [kolla][fuel][tripleo][openstack-ansible] Reference architecture to deploy OpenStack on k8s

Jim Rollenhagen jim at jimrollenhagen.com
Thu Sep 22 11:23:57 UTC 2016


On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 7:04 AM, Flavio Percoco <flavio at redhat.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I've recently started looking into the container technologies around
> OpenStack.
> More specifically, I've been looking into the tools that allow for deploying
> OpenStack on containers, which is what I'm the most interested in right now
> as
> part of the TripleO efforts.

I don't believe they support k8s today, but openstack-ansible also deploys
in containers. :)

// jim

> I'm familiar with the Kolla project and the tools managed by this team. In
> fact,
> TripleO currently uses kolla images for the containerized nova-compute
> deployment.
>
> I am, however, looking beyond a docker based deployment. I'd like to explore
> in
> more depth a Kubernetes based deployment of OpenStack. I'm familiar with
> both
> kolla-kubernetes and fuel-ccp, their structure and direction*. Both projects
> have now advanced a bit in their implementations and made some decisions.
>
> As someone that started looking into this topic just recently, I'd love to
> see
> our communities collaborate more wherever possible. For example, it'd be
> great
> to see us working on a reference architecture for deploying OpenStack on
> kubernetes, letting the implementation details aside for a bit. I'd assume
> some
> folks have done this already and I bet we can all learn more from it if we
> work
> on this together.
>
> So, let me go ahead and ask some further questions here, I might be missing
> some
> history and/or context:
>
> - Is there any public documentation that acts as a reference architecture
> for
>  deploying OpenStack on kubernetes?
> - Is this something the architecture working group could help with? Or would
> it
>  be better to hijack one of kolla meetings?
>
> The restult I'd love to see from this collaboration is a reference
> architecture
> explaining how OpenStack should be run on Kubernetes.
>
> Thanks in advance. I look forward to see us collaborate more on this area,
> Flavio
>
> * thanks to all fuel and kolla contributors that helped me understand better
> the
>  work in each of these projects and the direction they are headed
> .
> --
> @flaper87
> Flavio Percoco
>
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