I’ve previously bootstrapped a public cloud of a similar size using Foreman and Puppet. However, that was over five years ago - if I was doing it again today I’d go with Kolla-Ansible. Point taken regarding the documentation, but if you can make your way onto Freenode you’ll find the folks in #openstack-kolla a very helpful bunch. As an simpler alternative to Triple-O, I’d also recommend you take a look at Kayobe: https://kayobe.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ <https://kayobe.readthedocs.io/en/latest/> or for a brief introduction: https://www.slideshare.net/MarkGoddard2/to-kayobe-or-not-to-kayobe <https://www.slideshare.net/MarkGoddard2/to-kayobe-or-not-to-kayobe> Again, if you’re on Freenode then give us a shout in #openstack-kayobe Good luck! -- -Nick
On 17 Dec 2018, at 18:41, Cody <codeology.lab@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Melvin and Arkady,
Thank you for the replies.
I have been using TripleO on a small scale (10~20 nodes per deployment) and it worked well. That said, I am not sure what capacity it is designed for and whether it is still suitable to go beyond 2~300 nodes.
@Melvin: I attempted to try Kolla-Ansible and OpenStack-Ansible, but failed to find documentations that provide coverages as detail as TripleO's. Do you happen to know any resources or books on the subjects for me to work on?
@Arkady: May I ask if you used a Spine/Leaf network topology (i.e. using a fully meshed layer 3 network above ToR) to deploy the 3 racks?
Thank you to all!
Best regards, Cody
On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 1:12 PM <Arkady.Kanevsky@dell.com> wrote:
We had done TripleO deployment with 3 racks several times and it worked fined.
From: Melvin Hillsman [mailto:mrhillsman@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2018 11:02 AM To: Cody Cc: openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org Subject: Re: [publiccloud]Choice of deployment tools
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Personally I have found openstack-ansible to be robust and very useful for a production environment. Not only the tool itself but also the help offered by those whose develop and use it. There is a bit of a learning curve however. At the end of the day I think the best solution is the one that works for you and if you have a chance you should try each one to see which is most suitable. I have not tried TripleO, Airship in a bottle did not work out the box, Kolla-Ansible is useful also but gave me fits troubleshooting, and OpenStack-Ansible I mentioned the learning curve. I do not deal with a lot of manual deploying these days but if I was spinning up a public cloud personally I would roll with OpenStack-Ansible
On Mon, Dec 17, 2018, 10:47 AM Cody <codeology.lab@gmail.com wrote:
Hello stackers,
What deployment tools would be of your choice for deploying a public IaaS with an initial size of 200~300 nodes? Would TripleO be suitable for this cluster size?
Thank you very much. Wish you all a happy holiday season!
Best regards, Cody