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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!

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-Nick

> On 17 Dec 2018, at 18:41, Cody <codeology.lab at 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 at dell.com> wrote:
>> 
>> We had done TripleO deployment with 3 racks several times and it worked fined.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> From: Melvin Hillsman [mailto:mrhillsman at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2018 11:02 AM
>> To: Cody
>> Cc: openstack-operators at lists.openstack.org
>> Subject: Re: [publiccloud]Choice of deployment tools
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> [EXTERNAL EMAIL]
>> 
>> 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 at 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
> 

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