Open Stack

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matt Kassawara" <mkassawara at gmail.com>
> To: openstack-docs at lists.openstack.org
> 
> Ubuntu recently began offering pre-release Juno packages [1] and I
> successfully built a three-node "core services" environment using them.
> Let's discuss the potential changes...
> 
> 1) So far, updating the OpenStack services chapters of the installation
> guide mostly involves some configuration file changes, removing old
> workarounds, and probably adding new workarounds. Should we use a bug or a
> blueprint for these issues? In either case, I recommend uploading separate
> patches for each service.
> 
> 2) Neutron supports distributed virtual routers (DVR) and I'm sure people
> want instructions for deploying them. However, DVR introduces more
> complexity to already difficult networking concepts and requires
> architectural changes to fully configure and demonstrate. At least for
> Juno, I recommend keeping the legacy architecture and adding instructions
> for deploying DVR to the networking or admin guides.
> 
> 3) Open vSwitch adds another level of complexity to already difficult
> networking concepts, particularly with troubleshooting. Linux Bridge
> provides a reliable alternative that reduces complexity, but DVR doesn't
> support it. Should we add instructions for deploying Linux Bridge as an
> alternative to Open vSwitch?
> 
> 4) The neutron external network (ext-net) "magically" works although we
> don't explicitly configure support for flat networks. For sanity, we should
> probably adjust the configuration to support one flat network and adjust
> the initial network instructions to use it as a flat provider network.
> 
> 5) I'm seeing more deployments moving from novnc to spice consoles. Should
> we configure spice instead of novnc?
>
> 6) I'm seeing more deployments moving from MySQL to MariaDB. Ubuntu 14.04
> offers MariaDB 5.5 which more or less clones MySQL 5.5 including the
> configuration files. I suspect RHEL 7, Fedora, and other RPM distributions
> also offer MariaDB packages. Should we change all distributions to MariaDB?
> 
> [1] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-cloud-archive/+archive/ubuntu/juno-staging

RDO and RHELOSP actually already moved to mariadb 5.5 in the Icehouse-based releases.

-Steve