[Openstack-operators] OSAD for RHEL

John Dewey john at dewey.ws
Thu Jul 9 05:43:46 UTC 2015


This would not be acceptable for those running OSP.  


On Wednesday, July 8, 2015 at 10:12 PM, Kris G. Lindgren wrote:

> I should be more clear. My current thought is to have a venv packaged
> inside an rpm - so the rpm includes the needed init scripts, ensures the
> required system level binaries are installed, adds the users - ect ect.
> But would be a single deployable autonomous unit. Also, have a versioning
> schema to roll forward and back between venvs for quick update/rollback.
> We are already working on doing something similar to this to run kilo on
> cent6 boxen, until we can finish revving the remaining parts of the fleet
> to cent7.
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> My desire is to move away from using system level python & openstack
> packages, so that I can possibly run mismatched versions if I need to. We
> had a need to run kilo ceilometer and juno neutron/nova on a single
> server. The conflicting python requirements between those made that task
> impossible. In general I want to get away from treating Openstack as a
> single system that everything needs to be upgraded in lock step (packages
> force you into this). I want to move to being able to upgrade say
> oslo.messaging to a newer version on just say nova on my control plane
> servers. Or upgrade nova to kilo while keeping the rest of the system
> (neutron) on juno. Unless I run each service in a vm/container or on a
> physical piece of hardware that is pretty much impossible to do with
> packages - outside of placing everything inside venv's.
>  
> However, it is my understanding that OSAD already builds its own
> python-wheels and runs those inside lxc containers. So I don¹t really
> follow what good throwing those into an rpm would really do?
> ____________________________________________
>  
> Kris Lindgren
> Senior Linux Systems Engineer
> GoDaddy, LLC.
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> On 7/8/15, 10:33 PM, "Adam Young" <ayoung at redhat.com (mailto:ayoung at redhat.com)> wrote:
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> > On 07/07/2015 05:55 PM, Kris G. Lindgren wrote:
> > > +1 on RHEL support. I have some interest in moving away from packages
> > > and
> > > am interested in the OSAD tooling as well.
> > >  
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> > I would not recommend an approach targetting RHEL that does not use
> > packages.
> >  
> > OSAD support for RHEL using packages would be an outstanding tool.
> >  
> > Which way are you planning on taking it?
> >  
> > > ____________________________________________
> > >  
> > > Kris Lindgren
> > > Senior Linux Systems Engineer
> > > GoDaddy, LLC.
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> > > On 7/7/15, 3:38 PM, "Abel Lopez" <alopgeek at gmail.com (mailto:alopgeek at gmail.com)> wrote:
> > >  
> > > > Hey everyone,
> > > > I've started looking at osad, and I like much of the direction it
> > > > takes.
> > > > I'm pretty interested in developing it to run on RHEL, I just wanted to
> > > > check if anyone would be -2 opposed to that before I spend cycles on
> > > > it.
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