[Openstack] OpenStack - Debian have automated installation, Ubuntu do not, why?

YunQiang Su wzssyqa at gmail.com
Thu Nov 21 15:15:31 UTC 2013


On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Chuck Short <chuck.short at canonical.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Martinx - ¥¸¥§©`¥à¥º <thiagocmartinsc at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Guys,
>>
>> I'm a "Ubuntu evangelist", my entire family uses Ubuntu!
>>
>> But, I trying to understand one thing:
>>
>>
>> 1- Why OpenStack packages for Ubuntu is very "manual intensive", while on
>> Debian it is fully automated (with dbconfig-common / better packaging)?
>> Why?!
>>
>>
>> There is no automation for Ubuntu but, OpenStack on Debian is fully
>> automated... The keystone users and endpoints managed automatically by
>> Debian (db syncs, mysql, etc), but not by Ubuntu...
>
>
> The packages do enough to get the services running.
>
>>
>> Is there any special reason to not automate Ubuntu OpenStack packages,
>> just like Debian does?
>
>
> The goal of the Ubuntu OpenStack packages to make it easily deploy in large
> environments either using juju (preferred option ;),  puppet, or chef. In
> order to do this we keep the packaging simple and let the service
> deployment/configuration management tool to do the setup of OpenStack based
> on their environment.
>
> That being said we think that keystone users and endpoints should not be
> managed by debconf since most users who deploy at a large scale will not use
> them in their deployments.
This is from Debian Guys:
https://wiki.debian.org/OpenStackHowto/Folsom#Why_choosing_Debian_and_not_Ubuntu_to_run_Openstack.3F
>
>>
>> Cheers!
>> Thiago
>
>
> If you have any questions please let me know
>
> chuck
>
>>
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