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Hello LUFei,

Tim and I are working on Apex together, Let me see if I can fill in some
gaps for you to help understand some of the relationships of these
projects and the game plan for their future.

1) You are correct both director and Apex are based on triple-o. The
difference is that director is a supported product of Red Hat and Apex
is a community project specific to OPNFV. Another item in this mix that
should be mentioned is RDO Manager (http://rdoproject.org). Apex is
built on top of RDO Manager.

At Red Hat for every product that we have we also support a community
project. So Director and RDO Manager are the Product/Community-Project
counterparts of each other. If you want to install an RPM based
installation of OpenStack You should choose one of these and choose in
light of whether you would like it Enterprise supported or community
supported.

Apex is a Community project that does not have a product counterpart.
Its purpose is to add NFV capabilities to RDO Manager and build release
artifacts for the OPNFV project according to OPNFV requirements.

2) Director / RDO Manager have added a setup tool called Instack that
will setup an undercloud for you and they provide documentation how to
interact with instack to deploy your over cloud.

3) Apex is the new name for the project that was the Foreman/Quickstack
installer. We will not release an updated version of Foreman/Quickstack
in OPNFV. Instead it will be replaced by Apex.

We hope to have Apex ready to start being consumed by users in a preview
like status sometime this week or next. There are a couple more patches
we are trying to land in the the codebase before it will be ready to use.

One in particular is the installation-instructions. I have a
work-in-progress patch here:
https://github.com/radez/apex/blob/installation-instructions/docs/src/installation-instructions.rst

Please feel free to start reading these and provide and feedback or ask
questions.

Please let me know if you have more questions that we can answer to help
clarify things for you.

Dan Radez
freenode: radez




On 11/18/2015 10:13 AM, LUFei wrote:
> Hi Steven and Tim,
> 
> Thank you for your reply. (And sorry for my late respond because I was preparing my exams.)
> 
> My company has decided to try OSP Director before making further decisions.
> Just few more questions, hoping the answer will make my work easier. :-)
> 
> 1) I have learnt that both OSP Director and Apex are based on TripleO, and both supported by Redhat.
>     I'm sort of confused about the relationship between OSP Director and Apex.
>     Are OSP Director and Apex the same thing or different? If different, what's the difference?
> 
> 2) What's the further development you guys have done from the TripleO base to OSP Director / Apxe?
> 
> 3) Is Foreman/QuickStack having a new release in Brahmaputra?
> 
> Thank you,
> Kane
> ----------------------------------------
>> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 12:04:51 -0500
>> From: trozet at redhat.com
>> To: shardy at redhat.com; kane0817 at hotmail.com
>> CC: openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org; opnfv-tech-discuss at lists.opnfv.org
>> Subject: Re: [opnfv-tech-discuss] [openstack-dev] [Fuel][fuel] How can I install Redhat-OSP using Fuel
>>
>>
>> Thanks for pointing that out Steve. Just to add to this - Fei, in case you are also unaware the midstream version of OSP Director is called RDO Manager, which is supported by the OPNFV Apex installer.
>>
>> Tim Rozet
>> Red Hat SDN Team
>>e
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Steven Hardy" <shardy at redhat.com>
>> To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
>> Cc: opnfv-tech-discuss at lists.opnfv.org
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 7:46:54 AM
>> Subject: Re: [opnfv-tech-discuss] [openstack-dev] [Fuel][fuel] How can I install Redhat-OSP using Fuel
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 02:15:02AM +0000, Fei LU wrote:
>>> Greeting Fuel teams,
>>> My company is working on the installation of virtualization
>>> infrastructure, and we have noticed Fuel is a great tool, much better than
>>> our own installer. The question is that Mirantis is currently supporting
>>> OpenStack on CentOS and Ubuntu, while my company is using Redhat-OSP.
>>> I have read all the Fuel documents, including fuel dev doc, but I haven't
>>> found the solution how can I add my own release into Fuel. Or maybe I'm
>>> missing something.
>>> So, would you guys please give some guide or hints?
>>
>> I'm guessing you already know this, but just in case - the
>> install/management tool for recent versions of RHEL-OSP is OSP director,
>> which is based directly on another OpenStack deployment project, TripleO.
>>
>> So, it's only fair to point out that you may have a much easier time
>> participating in the TripleO community if your aim is primarily to support
>> deploying RHEL-OSP or RDO distributions.
>>
>> http://docs.openstack.org/developer/tripleo-docs/
>>
>> There are various pros/cons and differences between the TripleO and Fuel
>> tooling, but I hope that over time we can work towards less duplication and
>> more reuse between the two efforts.
>>
>> Steve
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