Hey folks, Yesterday, I took part in the Los Angeles OpenInfra meetup, and a question that came up from some of the organizers was if there are any practical workshop labs we can walk folks through to sort of show some practical/concrete usage aspects of OpenStack? Is anyone aware of any such materials? I ask because we are talking of trying to organize the next meetup in more a workshop style, especially as some participants did also express interest in hands on learning. Thanks in advance, -Julia
Hello Julia - It's possible our training lab can help: https://github.com/stackhpc/a-universe-from-nothing It is a deployment of a seed node plus 1-controller 1-hypervisor cloud, all VMs nested within a lab VM. The README takes you through the process of deploying OpenStack using Kayobe and Kolla-Ansible. At the end you have a miniature cloud you can log in to and spawn even tinier VMs. By itself it's a bit rough and ready, but some of my colleagues are planning a video walk-through. No date set for that currently. Cheers, Stig
On 12 Mar 2024, at 22:09, Julia Kreger <juliaashleykreger@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey folks,
Yesterday, I took part in the Los Angeles OpenInfra meetup, and a question that came up from some of the organizers was if there are any practical workshop labs we can walk folks through to sort of show some practical/concrete usage aspects of OpenStack?
Is anyone aware of any such materials?
I ask because we are talking of trying to organize the next meetup in more a workshop style, especially as some participants did also express interest in hands on learning.
Thanks in advance,
-Julia
Hey Stig, That is neat! Based upon the discussion, I think we would want to orient towards general use from an end user perspective and less an admin cloud deployment perspective. It also helps in this case that a private hosted cloud provider is engaged and might be willing to donate some test tenants for the day, so people can do a lab from a laptop in a meetup venue while not needing a high end machine with lots of ram. But, we did have a couple deployment related questions, so it might be useful as well. Thanks! -Julia On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 3:55 PM Stig Telfer <stig.openstack@telfer.org> wrote:
Hello Julia -
It's possible our training lab can help: https://github.com/stackhpc/a-universe-from-nothing
It is a deployment of a seed node plus 1-controller 1-hypervisor cloud, all VMs nested within a lab VM. The README takes you through the process of deploying OpenStack using Kayobe and Kolla-Ansible. At the end you have a miniature cloud you can log in to and spawn even tinier VMs.
By itself it's a bit rough and ready, but some of my colleagues are planning a video walk-through. No date set for that currently.
Cheers, Stig
On 12 Mar 2024, at 22:09, Julia Kreger <juliaashleykreger@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey folks,
Yesterday, I took part in the Los Angeles OpenInfra meetup, and a question that came up from some of the organizers was if there are any practical workshop labs we can walk folks through to sort of show some practical/concrete usage aspects of OpenStack?
Is anyone aware of any such materials?
I ask because we are talking of trying to organize the next meetup in more a workshop style, especially as some participants did also express interest in hands on learning.
Thanks in advance,
-Julia
Hello Julia! Would there be any interest in doing a workshop on how to use Terraform (or OpenTofu) and the OpenStack Terraform provider to deploy instances, networks, etc. on OpenStack? I do not have a ready-to-go workshop on this, I admit, but I have some demonstrations of deploying OpenStack resources for specific, real-world workloads using Terraform. I would be happy to put together a workshop to take folks through doing this. What do you think? Thank you! Jadon On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 7:25 PM Julia Kreger <juliaashleykreger@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey Stig,
That is neat!
Based upon the discussion, I think we would want to orient towards general use from an end user perspective and less an admin cloud deployment perspective. It also helps in this case that a private hosted cloud provider is engaged and might be willing to donate some test tenants for the day, so people can do a lab from a laptop in a meetup venue while not needing a high end machine with lots of ram. But, we did have a couple deployment related questions, so it might be useful as well.
Thanks!
-Julia
On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 3:55 PM Stig Telfer <stig.openstack@telfer.org> wrote:
Hello Julia -
It's possible our training lab can help: https://github.com/stackhpc/a-universe-from-nothing
It is a deployment of a seed node plus 1-controller 1-hypervisor cloud, all VMs nested within a lab VM. The README takes you through the process of deploying OpenStack using Kayobe and Kolla-Ansible. At the end you have a miniature cloud you can log in to and spawn even tinier VMs.
By itself it's a bit rough and ready, but some of my colleagues are planning a video walk-through. No date set for that currently.
Cheers, Stig
On 12 Mar 2024, at 22:09, Julia Kreger <juliaashleykreger@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey folks,
Yesterday, I took part in the Los Angeles OpenInfra meetup, and a question that came up from some of the organizers was if there are any practical workshop labs we can walk folks through to sort of show some practical/concrete usage aspects of OpenStack?
Is anyone aware of any such materials?
I ask because we are talking of trying to organize the next meetup in more a workshop style, especially as some participants did also express interest in hands on learning.
Thanks in advance,
-Julia
Some folks there may be interested in terraform+openstack --- Alvaro Soto. Note: My work hours may not be your work hours. Please do not feel the need to respond during a time that is not convenient for you. ---------------------------------------------------------- Great people talk about ideas, ordinary people talk about things, small people talk... about other people. On Mon, Mar 18, 2024, 9:18 AM Jadon Naas <jadon.naas@canonical.com> wrote:
Hello Julia!
Would there be any interest in doing a workshop on how to use Terraform (or OpenTofu) and the OpenStack Terraform provider to deploy instances, networks, etc. on OpenStack? I do not have a ready-to-go workshop on this, I admit, but I have some demonstrations of deploying OpenStack resources for specific, real-world workloads using Terraform. I would be happy to put together a workshop to take folks through doing this. What do you think?
Thank you!
Jadon
On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 7:25 PM Julia Kreger <juliaashleykreger@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey Stig,
That is neat!
Based upon the discussion, I think we would want to orient towards general use from an end user perspective and less an admin cloud deployment perspective. It also helps in this case that a private hosted cloud provider is engaged and might be willing to donate some test tenants for the day, so people can do a lab from a laptop in a meetup venue while not needing a high end machine with lots of ram. But, we did have a couple deployment related questions, so it might be useful as well.
Thanks!
-Julia
On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 3:55 PM Stig Telfer <stig.openstack@telfer.org> wrote:
Hello Julia -
It's possible our training lab can help: https://github.com/stackhpc/a-universe-from-nothing
It is a deployment of a seed node plus 1-controller 1-hypervisor cloud, all VMs nested within a lab VM. The README takes you through the process of deploying OpenStack using Kayobe and Kolla-Ansible. At the end you have a miniature cloud you can log in to and spawn even tinier VMs.
By itself it's a bit rough and ready, but some of my colleagues are planning a video walk-through. No date set for that currently.
Cheers, Stig
On 12 Mar 2024, at 22:09, Julia Kreger <juliaashleykreger@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey folks,
Yesterday, I took part in the Los Angeles OpenInfra meetup, and a question that came up from some of the organizers was if there are any practical workshop labs we can walk folks through to sort of show some practical/concrete usage aspects of OpenStack?
Is anyone aware of any such materials?
I ask because we are talking of trying to organize the next meetup in more a workshop style, especially as some participants did also express interest in hands on learning.
Thanks in advance,
-Julia
It would be more interesting in deployment of nodes for Openstack via Terraform (OpenTofu) and deployment of the Openstack on them. On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 11:36 PM Alvaro Soto <alsotoes@gmail.com> wrote:
Some folks there may be interested in terraform+openstack
--- Alvaro Soto.
Note: My work hours may not be your work hours. Please do not feel the need to respond during a time that is not convenient for you. ---------------------------------------------------------- Great people talk about ideas, ordinary people talk about things, small people talk... about other people.
On Mon, Mar 18, 2024, 9:18 AM Jadon Naas <jadon.naas@canonical.com> wrote:
Hello Julia!
Would there be any interest in doing a workshop on how to use Terraform (or OpenTofu) and the OpenStack Terraform provider to deploy instances, networks, etc. on OpenStack? I do not have a ready-to-go workshop on this, I admit, but I have some demonstrations of deploying OpenStack resources for specific, real-world workloads using Terraform. I would be happy to put together a workshop to take folks through doing this. What do you think?
Thank you!
Jadon
On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 7:25 PM Julia Kreger <juliaashleykreger@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey Stig,
That is neat!
Based upon the discussion, I think we would want to orient towards general use from an end user perspective and less an admin cloud deployment perspective. It also helps in this case that a private hosted cloud provider is engaged and might be willing to donate some test tenants for the day, so people can do a lab from a laptop in a meetup venue while not needing a high end machine with lots of ram. But, we did have a couple deployment related questions, so it might be useful as well.
Thanks!
-Julia
On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 3:55 PM Stig Telfer <stig.openstack@telfer.org> wrote:
Hello Julia -
It's possible our training lab can help: https://github.com/stackhpc/a-universe-from-nothing
It is a deployment of a seed node plus 1-controller 1-hypervisor cloud, all VMs nested within a lab VM. The README takes you through the process of deploying OpenStack using Kayobe and Kolla-Ansible. At the end you have a miniature cloud you can log in to and spawn even tinier VMs.
By itself it's a bit rough and ready, but some of my colleagues are planning a video walk-through. No date set for that currently.
Cheers, Stig
On 12 Mar 2024, at 22:09, Julia Kreger <juliaashleykreger@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey folks,
Yesterday, I took part in the Los Angeles OpenInfra meetup, and a question that came up from some of the organizers was if there are any practical workshop labs we can walk folks through to sort of show some practical/concrete usage aspects of OpenStack?
Is anyone aware of any such materials?
I ask because we are talking of trying to organize the next meetup in more a workshop style, especially as some participants did also express interest in hands on learning.
Thanks in advance,
-Julia
-- Regards, Maksim Malchuk
Hello! I actually could do workshops on using Terraform as a tool for deploying OpenStack resources on an existing cloud *and* deploying an OpenStack cloud. One concern I have around me doing an OpenStack private cloud deployment workshop, though, is that it would be heavily opinionated insofar as it is built around deploying MAAS, Juju, and Charmed OpenStack through Terraform. That's less generally widely useful, I feel, than focusing strictly on using the OpenStack Terraform provider since it would not help people who use other solutions to meet those needs. But if folks feel that would be valuable I am open to putting that together. I will go ahead with sketching out a presentation and some examples for using the OpenStack Terraform provider to provision resources on OpenStack clouds to pass along here. If there is interest in seeing a Terraform + MAAS + Juju + Charmed OpenStack presentation, I can put that together as well. Thank you! Jadon Naas On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 3:36 PM Maksim Malchuk <maksim.malchuk@gmail.com> wrote:
It would be more interesting in deployment of nodes for Openstack via Terraform (OpenTofu) and deployment of the Openstack on them.
On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 11:36 PM Alvaro Soto <alsotoes@gmail.com> wrote:
Some folks there may be interested in terraform+openstack
--- Alvaro Soto.
Note: My work hours may not be your work hours. Please do not feel the need to respond during a time that is not convenient for you. ---------------------------------------------------------- Great people talk about ideas, ordinary people talk about things, small people talk... about other people.
On Mon, Mar 18, 2024, 9:18 AM Jadon Naas <jadon.naas@canonical.com> wrote:
Hello Julia!
Would there be any interest in doing a workshop on how to use Terraform (or OpenTofu) and the OpenStack Terraform provider to deploy instances, networks, etc. on OpenStack? I do not have a ready-to-go workshop on this, I admit, but I have some demonstrations of deploying OpenStack resources for specific, real-world workloads using Terraform. I would be happy to put together a workshop to take folks through doing this. What do you think?
Thank you!
Jadon
On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 7:25 PM Julia Kreger < juliaashleykreger@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey Stig,
That is neat!
Based upon the discussion, I think we would want to orient towards general use from an end user perspective and less an admin cloud deployment perspective. It also helps in this case that a private hosted cloud provider is engaged and might be willing to donate some test tenants for the day, so people can do a lab from a laptop in a meetup venue while not needing a high end machine with lots of ram. But, we did have a couple deployment related questions, so it might be useful as well.
Thanks!
-Julia
On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 3:55 PM Stig Telfer <stig.openstack@telfer.org> wrote:
Hello Julia -
It's possible our training lab can help: https://github.com/stackhpc/a-universe-from-nothing
It is a deployment of a seed node plus 1-controller 1-hypervisor cloud, all VMs nested within a lab VM. The README takes you through the process of deploying OpenStack using Kayobe and Kolla-Ansible. At the end you have a miniature cloud you can log in to and spawn even tinier VMs.
By itself it's a bit rough and ready, but some of my colleagues are planning a video walk-through. No date set for that currently.
Cheers, Stig
On 12 Mar 2024, at 22:09, Julia Kreger <juliaashleykreger@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey folks,
Yesterday, I took part in the Los Angeles OpenInfra meetup, and a question that came up from some of the organizers was if there are any practical workshop labs we can walk folks through to sort of show some practical/concrete usage aspects of OpenStack?
Is anyone aware of any such materials?
I ask because we are talking of trying to organize the next meetup in more a workshop style, especially as some participants did also express interest in hands on learning.
Thanks in advance,
-Julia
-- Regards, Maksim Malchuk
On 2024-03-12 15:09:23 -0700 (-0700), Julia Kreger wrote:
Yesterday, I took part in the Los Angeles OpenInfra meetup, and a question that came up from some of the organizers was if there are any practical workshop labs we can walk folks through to sort of show some practical/concrete usage aspects of OpenStack?
Is anyone aware of any such materials?
I ask because we are talking of trying to organize the next meetup in more a workshop style, especially as some participants did also express interest in hands on learning.
It sounds like what might be easiest to walk newcomers through is either a revitalized/updated version of our old FirstApp from the Shade docs which demonstrated creating a trivial application that used the OpenStack APIs via an SDK, or even just something that took folks through sequential OpenStack Client tasks (openstack server create, openstack volume create, openstack server add volume...)? Do you know more concretely what they're looking for? -- Jeremy Stanley
participants (6)
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Alvaro Soto
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Jadon Naas
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Jeremy Stanley
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Julia Kreger
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Maksim Malchuk
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Stig Telfer