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.
I have been working for a couple months with OpenStack-Ansible to deploy a small (3-node) test cluster on VirtualBox VMs in preparation for a larger deployment on real hardware - 6 to 10 nodes.
(Details: Debian 11 deployment, Debian 10 infra, compute, and storage nodes)
It has been slow going, at least partially due to some issues and limitations with VirtualBox. However, deploying a test cluster on VMs still seems preferable to just diving deployment on real hardware and going through multiple scrubs/reinstalls.
Today I saw that Mark asked a question 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?
Thanks.
-Dave
-- Dave Hall Binghamton University kdhall@binghamton.edu