Open Stack

On 14/01/2020 18.19, Radosław Piliszek wrote:
> Hiya, Folks!
> 
> I had some thought after talking with people new to OpenStack - our
> deployment tools are too well-hidden in the ecosystem.
> People try deploying devstack for fun (and some still use packstack!)
> and then give up on manual installation for production due to its
> complexity and fear of upgrades.
> I also got voices that Kolla/TripleO/OSA (order random) is an
> "unofficial" way to deploy OpenStack and the installation guide is the
> only "official" one (whatever that may mean in this very context).
> 
> So I decided I go the "newbie" route and inspected the website.
> https://www.openstack.org invites us to browse:
> https://www.openstack.org/software/start/
> which is nice and dandy, presents options of enterprise-grade solutions etc.
> but fails to really mention OpenStack has deployment tools (if one
> does not look at the submenu bar) and instead points the "newbie" to
> the installation guide:
> https://docs.openstack.org/install-guide/overview.html
> which kind-of negates that OpenStack ecosystem has any ready tools of
> deployment by saying:
> "After becoming familiar with basic installation, configuration,
> operation, and troubleshooting of these OpenStack services, you should
> consider the following steps toward deployment using a production
> architecture: ...
> Implement a deployment tool such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or Salt to
> automate deployment and management of the production environment."

The goal of the install guide is to learn:

"This guide covers step-by-step deployment of the major OpenStack
services using a functional example architecture suitable for new users
of OpenStack with sufficient Linux experience. This guide is not
intended to be used for production system installations, but to create a
minimum proof-of-concept for the purpose of learning about OpenStack."

And then comes the above cited.

We can change the text and point to the deployment pages if you want.

That's from the page you mention,

Andreas

> Just some food for thought.
> 
> Extra for Kolla and OSA:
> https://docs.openstack.org/train/deploy/
> seems we no longer deploy OpenStack since Train.

It was not ready when be branched it - and nobody added it to the index
page, see https://docs.openstack.org/doc-contrib-guide/doc-index.html,

Andreas
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