[publiccloud]Choice of deployment tools

Cody codeology.lab at gmail.com
Tue Dec 18 16:39:34 UTC 2018


Many, many thanks to everyone for your helps on this topic and wish
you all a Happy New Year!

Best regards,
Cody
On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 10:45 AM <Arkady.Kanevsky at dell.com> wrote:
>
> Cody,
> It is documented in https://www.dellemc.com/resources/en-us/asset/technical-guides-support-information/solutions/Dell_EMC_NFV_Ready_Bundle_for_Red_Hat_Multi_rack_Architecture_Guide.pdf
> Thanks,
> Arkady
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cody [mailto:codeology.lab at gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2018 12:41 PM
> To: Kanevsky, Arkady
> Cc: mrhillsman at gmail.com; openstack-operators at lists.openstack.org
> Subject: Re: [publiccloud]Choice of deployment tools
>
>
> [EXTERNAL EMAIL]
>
> 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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