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Shaun, I love your plan for the install guide!

I don't have any example installations though -


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On 7/18/13 10:40 AM, "Shaun McCance" <shaunm at gnome.org> wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I want to ask the list for input on example installations of OpenStack.
>But since I've failed to introduce myself to the list, let me do that.
>
>I've been doing open source documentation for GNOME for a long time.
>In fact, this September I will have been the GNOME docs team lead for
>ten years. I also run the Open Help Conference each year, which is how
>I met Anne. I do freelance documentation work as a day job. Currently,
>I'm doing upstream OpenStack documentation work under contract with
>Cisco, working on the installation guides.
>
>What I'd like to do is compile a list of example deployments that we
>can use to guide and evaluate the installation docs. Obviously, it
>can't be comprehensive, given how flexible OpenStack is. Thinks of
>personas, except configurations instead of people.
>
>Does anybody have any real-world cases they can distill into examples?
>Ideally we'd have half a dozen example setups: how many nodes, what's
>running on what, etc. More importantly, why was OpenStack set up this
>way, what advantages does it have, and what are the drawbacks.
>
>My general plan is to have a single installation guide, with the first
>couple chapters providing the simplest evolvable installation, and the
>rest being a sort of choose-your-own-adventure on adding to that basic
>installation. Having example setups would help a lot in getting the
>structure right.
>
>Thanks,
>Shaun
>
>
>
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