Open Stack

On Fri, 2014-01-10 at 10:28 -0500, Jay Dobies wrote:
> >> So, it's not as simple as it may initially seem :)
> >
> > Ah, I should have been clearer in my statement - my understanding is that
> > we're scrapping concepts like Rack entirely.
> 
> That was my understanding as well. The existing Tuskar domain model was 
> largely placeholder/proof of concept and didn't necessarily reflect 
> exactly what was desired/expected.

Hmm, so this is a bit disappointing, though I may be less disappointed
if I knew that Ironic (or something else?) planned to account for
datacenter inventory in a more robust way than is currently modeled.

If Triple-O/Ironic/Tuskar are indeed meant to be the deployment tooling
that an enterprise would use to deploy bare-metal hardware in a
continuous fashion, then the modeling of racks, and the attributes of
those racks -- location, power supply, etc -- are a critical part of the
overall picture.

As an example of why something like power supply is important... inside
AT&T, we had both 8kW and 16kW power supplies in our datacenters. For a
42U or 44U rack, deployments would be limited to a certain number of
compute nodes, based on that power supply.

The average power draw for a particular vendor model of compute worker
would be used in determining the level of compute node packing that
could occur for that rack type within a particular datacenter. This was
a fundamental part of datacenter deployment and planning. If the tooling
intended to do bare-metal deployment of OpenStack in a continual manner
does not plan to account for these kinds of things, then the chances
that tooling will be used in enterprise deployments is diminished.

And, as we all know, when something isn't used, it withers. That's the
last thing I want to happen here. I want all of this to be the
bare-metal deployment tooling that is used *by default* in enterprise
OpenStack deployments, because the tooling "fits" the expectations of
datacenter deployers.

It doesn't have to be done tomorrow :) It just needs to be on the map
somewhere. I'm not sure if Ironic is the place to put this kind of
modeling -- I thought Tuskar was going to be that thing. But really,
IMO, it should be on the roadmap somewhere.

All the best,
-jay