Hello,

My question is about OpenStack-Ansible vs. Kolla-Ansible.  While I am sensitive to the effort that has been put into both of these projects, what I really need right now is the most fool-proof way to deploy and manage a small production cluster for academic instructional use.

(BTW, I do understand that there are other differences between Kolla and regular openstack.)

I have been working for a couple months with OpenStack-Ansible to deploy a small (3-node) Xena test cluster on VirtualBox VMs in preparation for a larger deployment on real hardware - 6 to 10 nodes.  My VirtualBox deployment has been:

It has been slow going, at least partially due to some issues and limitations with VirtualBox (and Vagrant early on).  However, deploying a test cluster on VMs still seems preferable to just diving into deployment on real hardware and going through multiple scrubs/reinstalls.

I've recently seen more posts in the list about Kolla-Ansible.  So, as a 'beginner', should I shift and look at Kolla-Ansible, or should I stay the course and continue with Openstack-Ansible?  What are the pros and cons of each?

For that matter, is there some other deployment mechanism that would be more fool-proof for a first-timer?  Although I'm more familiar with Ansible than the other tools (Chef, Puppet, etc.) I'm most interested in how to get a cluster up and running regardless of the underlying tools.

Thanks.

-Dave