[Openstack-mentoring] [first-cloud] Advice for Openstack upgrade

Jill Rouleau jillr at redhat.com
Mon Jul 23 21:48:14 UTC 2018


Hey deployment mentors,

Does anyone have OSA experience that can help Cecilia out please?

Cheers,
JillOn Thu, 2018-07-19 at 14:19 +0200, Cecilia Di Maulo wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Indeed, I have already started to backup everything, thanks
> 
> So, now I have all my nodes running Ubuntu 16.04.
> 
> I am in a HA configuration.
> 
> I am using Openstack-Ansible an my actual openstack version is Newton
> 14.2.8.
> 
> The users identify through the organisation LDAP.
> 
> For now we are running :
> - Keystone
> - Nova (local storage)
> - Cinder (NFS)
> - Glance
> - Neutron
> - Heat
> 
> 
> Apparently they also tried to install Ceilometer it had weird
> behaviors and overwhelmed the servers so it was deactivated before my
> arrival...
> 
> After (or is it better during?) the upgrade we would like to add:
> - Ceilometer
> - Gnocchi
> - other tools to monitor the VMs usage and to send reminders of usage
> to the users (grafana...)
> 
> Thanks for the advice,
> 
> Have a great day
> 
> Cecilia
> 
> Le mer. 18 juil. 2018 à 18:24, Jill Rouleau <jillr at redhat.com> a
> écrit :
> > Hi Cecilia, 
> > 
> > On Wed, 2018-07-18 at 09:05 +0200, Cecilia Di Maulo wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > > I'm Cecilia. I've just arrived in the professional world and in
> > the
> > > Openstack world. My first mission is about upgrading a 3 compute
> > nodes
> > > and 3 infra nodes, from Newton 14.2.8 to at least Queens. If you
> > have
> > > any piece of advice on what I should probably not forget to do, or
> > > what could facilitate this task, I am all ears out !
> > 
> > Welcome!  Can you tell us a bit more about your environment?  What
> > distribution is your cloud running on, and what deployment tools are
> > you
> > using?  Also, are your infra nodes an HA configuration?
> > 
> > No matter what, you definitely want to have really solid backups of
> > all of your databases and of your configs.  And I'd recommend
> > devising a rollback or recovery plan before starting the upgrade.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Jill
> > 
> > > 
> > > Have a great day!
> > > 
> > > Cecilia
> > > _______________________________________________
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> > > Openstack-mentoring at lists.openstack.org
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> > orin
> > > g
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