Open Stack

On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 05:33:18AM -0500, number9 wrote:
> Thanks for the information, I have a few questions:
> 
> 
> What packages are you referring to? Did I install the wrong spice packages
> to make spice run?
> 
> 
> You note installers are popular, but I was under the impression the only
> installer was
> the "single machine" developer installer, and not one for a controller node,
> five
> compute nodes and a block storage node. Am I missing something? Is there an
> installer
> where I can just install Openstack "controller" on the controller, "compute"
> on the
> compute nodes and say "swift" or "cinder" on my storage node, and it will
> all be
> configured to work together? That would save me some real configuration
> time. I have already
> installed it three times by hand (Rocky, Pike, Victoria), and that is a fair
> amount of work.


I was referring to .deb packages. I don't know what you did install (and
what not). Also I am not using Debian (or Ubuntu).

Installers would deploy OpenStack on your bare metal machines, and
would make "things work" together.

I'd just name kolla or tripleo here, but there are more, see[1].

Single node deployments are just a special case, but are not
really supportable (nor would they create a highly available
infrastructure).

Matthias

[1] https://www.openstack.org/software/project-navigator/deployment-tools

> 
> Thanks.
> 
> On 2021-08-09 02:21, Matthias Runge wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 07, 2021 at 10:10:20AM -0500, number9 wrote:
> > > Are you suggesting that I rebuild my six servers with Debian in order
> > > to get spice working?
> > > 
> > > I thought Ubuntu server was a supported platform (e.g. the docs say
> > > RHEL, SuSe, Ubuntu)?
> > > 
> > > Would moving to Wallaby help? I am hesitant, as I have tried to get
> > > vnc and novnc working on Rocky and Pike with the same results.
> > > The problem is I really _need_ it to work for next semester so
> > > the students can access their vms over the web for some remote
> > > classes.
> > > 
> > > Thanks.
> > > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > from the error description, I can only suspect you may be able to see
> > the error message in Horizon logs. Usually a "Something went wrong"
> > message is the nicer way for a 500 server error.
> > 
> > If I understood correctly what Thomas was trying to suggest is: Ubuntu
> > and Debian packages should work on both systems, i.e. you should be
> > able to use the Debian packages on Ubuntu. Thomas puts a lot of effort
> > in these.
> > 
> > OpenStack is quite easy to misconfigure, and you can waste some time in
> > finding your own typos (or the one in guides). This is why installers
> > are popular.
> > 
> > Matthias
> 

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Matthias Runge <mrunge at matthias-runge.de>