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On 13/05/16 19:48, "Joshua Harlow" <harlowja at fastmail.com> wrote:

>Matthew Thode wrote:
>> On 05/12/2016 04:04 PM, Joshua Harlow wrote:
>>> Hi there all-ye-operators,
>>>
>>> I am investigating how to help move godaddy from rpms to a
>>> container-like solution (virtualenvs, lxc, or docker...) and a set of
>>> questions that comes up is the following (and I would think that some
>>> folks on this mailing list may have some useful insight into the answers):
>>>
>>> * Have you done the transition?
>>>
>>
>> We've been using openstack-ansible since it existed, it's working well
>> for us.
>>
>>> * How did the transition go?
>>>
>>
>> It can be painful, but it's worked out in the long run.
>>
>>> * Was/is kolla used or looked into? or something custom?
>>>
>>
>> Openstack-ansible, which is Openstack big-tent.  It used to be
>> os-ansible-deployment in stackforge, but we've removed the rackspacisms.
>>   I will say that openstack-ansible is one of the few that have been
>> doing upgrades reliably for a while, since at least Icehouse, maybe further.
>
>Whats the connection between 'openstack-ansible' and 'kolla', is there 
>any (or any in progress?)
>
>>
>>> * How long did it take to do the transition from a package based
>>> solution (with say puppet/chef being used to deploy these packages)?
>>>
>>>    * Follow-up being how big was the team to do this?
>>
>> Our team was somewhat bigger than most as we have many deployments and
>> we had to do it from scratch.  If you CAN do it solo, but I'd recommend
>> you have coverage / on call for whatever your requirements are.
>>
>>> * What was the roll-out strategy to achieve the final container solution?
>>>
>>
>> For Openstack-ansible I'd recommend deploying a service at a time,
>> migrating piecemeal.  You can migrate to the same release as you are on
>> (I hope), though I'd recommend kilo or greater as upgrades can get
>> annoying after a while.
>>
>>> Any other feedback (and/or questions that I missed)?
>>>

Is there some documentation from Kolla on how we could move from a classic RPM/APT based deployment to containers ?

Would be an interesting read (asking for a friend, of course)

Tim

>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Josh
>>>
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