I have been using openstack-ansible with some luck and the community has
been helpful.
For managing the hardware I have been using the-foreman which makes
booting and installing the OS on systems much easier.

For Kolla there is a book "Mastering OpenStack" that has just been
released so it should be a good guide.

On 2025-03-05 12:50, Albert Shih wrote:
> Le 05/03/2025 à 17:31:39+0100, Dmitriy Rabotyagov a écrit
> Hi,
>
>
>> So I think if you are looking for bare metal deployment specifically,
>> OpenStack-Ansible would be pretty much your only option here. And OSA
>> supports integration with external Ceph clusters (as rest tooling
>> ofc).
> Well....I was not very clear about the deployment. I got some bare metal
> server on what I will run openstack. If the tool can deploy directly on the
> bare metal that's the cherry on the top. But I can also install the OS
> manually on the bare metal then deploy the openstack. I don't have 100
> servers so manually deployment of the OS is not a issue.
>
>> But both kolla/helm require having docker/k8s. And kolla-ansible is
> For Helm I can understand, but in which way kolla need a k8s ? I've a OKD
> (openshift) so I can deploy helm chart.
>
>> still an independent project. While openstack-helm leveraging kolla
> Ok thanks
>
>> images - these are maintained by different groups as of today.
> So can I say
>
>    kolla :--> build docker image for openstack
>
> then I can deploy myself with whatever those image to run a openstack, or I
> can use kolla-ansible to deploy kolla images ?
>
>> Also, I don't really think you will get limited in OpenStack features
>> specifically due to deployment tooling - they all will provide you
> Ok. Thanks.
>
>> with roughly the same feature set, just a completely different
>> concepts of how your infrastructure is managed.
> Ok. Thanks
>
> Regards.
>
> JAS

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