[Openstack] recommended way to install openstack today

Juris M. jmisc at gmx.com
Mon Jan 16 22:21:56 UTC 2017


Hi,

I missed the initial mail that started this thread, as I wasn't signed
up to the mailing list at the time, so I'm replying to this (I
apologize if this is frowned upon).

I would like to add my two cents to the ones suggesting to use a
deployment tool, like Puppet, Ansible or Packstack (whichever you
prefer, really, or depending on any dependencies you may have) if for
nothing else but the fact that you'll end up with some sort of reusable
instruction file. This is preferable for a few reasons. You can inspect
the file to see what are the various things the deployment system
accounted for to perform the deployment. You can then add or change
variables to experiment and using some version control system save your
configurations to return to a known or interesting configuration.

If you're interested in how the actual configuration of the services
looks like, you can always connect to your nodes and inspect them that
way, or collect them and compare to the answer file to see which option
affected what. Also, this will primarily save you time, as your
experimentation may break the environment for some reason, and it will
simply become tedious to do it by hand over and over.

I do, however, suggest that you try to repeat the deployment of a
service or few by hand in different configurations, just to get the
hang of it and walk through the process manually and see what all the
moving pieces are - this will come in handy in situation when something
breaks and you want to be able to fix it rather than redeploy.

I wish you the best of luck :)

--
Juris M.


On Mon, 2017-01-16 at 12:35 -0800, Remo Mattei wrote:
> The main point is what you are trying to get out. In the enterprise
> space you will never install it from source now. Too complex too hard
> not upgrades etc etc. We did a deployment after the initial config of
> the yaml file the ha 3 controllers 3 computes and ceph servers took
> 37 min no way you can do that in any other ways. 
> 
> 
> 
> Inviato da iPhone
> 
> > Il giorno 16 gen 2017, alle ore 08:30, Melvin Hillsman <mrhillsman@
> > gmail.com> ha scritto:
> > 
> > When I originally starting deploying OpenStack I did it by hand
> > with multiple VMs just to get the hang of it and highly recommend
> > this method for any newcomer because it gives you an idea of the
> > configurations and interdependencies. Being employed to work on
> > OpenStack led me to use openstack-ansible and to be honest if it
> > were not a “requirement” for the team I work with I would probably
> > still use it though some other options are worth considering; like
> > those you mentioned.
> > 
> > Deployment Guide: http://docs.openstack.org/project-deploy-guide/op
> > enstack-ansible/newton/
> > Developer Documentation: http://docs.openstack.org/developer/openst
> > ack-ansible/
> > 
> > Kind regards,
> > --
> > Melvin Hillsman
> > Ops Technical Lead
> > OpenStack Innovation Center
> > 
> > mrhillsman at gmail.com
> > phone: (210) 312-1267
> > mobile: (210) 413-1659
> > Learner | Ideation | Belief | Responsibility | Command
> > http://osic.org
> > 
> > 
> > On 1/16/17, 8:44 AM, "Remo Mattei" <remo at italy1.com> wrote:
> > 
> >    I would not suggest devstack depending on what you want to learn
> > but devstack is tailored for dev. If you want a system closer to
> > production look into packstack and you can reboot without having to
> > deal with the devstack issue and then you have to learn screen
> > etc. 
> > 
> >    Also look into trystack if you are just want to learn it and not
> > install it. 
> >    Have a good day! 
> > 
> >    Remo 
> > 
> >    Inviato da iPhone
> > 
> > > Il giorno 15 gen 2017, alle ore 23:51, info at bjoern-stuebe.de ha
> > > scritto:
> > > 
> > > Hey,
> > > 
> > > i used it for study purposes, too.
> > > 
> > > I implemented an OpenStack environment with DevStack. This is a
> > > easy way to deploy OpenStack on your System. You will find a good
> > > documentation on openstack.org.
> > > 
> > > http://docs.openstack.org/developer/devstack/guides/single-machin
> > > e.html
> > > http://docs.openstack.org/developer/devstack/
> > > 
> > > greetings,
> > > bjoern
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Zitat von Manuel Sopena Ballesteros <manuel.sb at garvan.org.au>:
> > > 
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > We have been testing openstack for a few days in a all-in-one
> > > > flavor. Now we would like to have an openstack HA  production
> > > > environment. I see there are multiple ways to do this...
> > > > TripleO, fuel, kolla... my question is what would be your
> > > > preferred way to deploy openstack today?
> > > > 
> > > > Thank you very much
> > > > 
> > > > Manuel Sopena Ballesteros | Big data Engineer
> > > > Garvan Institute of Medical Research
> > > > The Kinghorn Cancer Centre, 370 Victoria Street, Darlinghurst,
> > > > NSW 2010
> > > > T: + 61 (0)2 9355 5760 | F: +61 (0)2 9295 8507 | E: manuel.sb at g
> > > > arvan.org.au<mailto:manuel.sb at garvan.org.au>
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