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Hello,

On 2016-11-17 11:52, Jean-Philippe Evrard wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I’ll start by answering the last questions: “Is that kind of
> deployment possible? If not possible, is this or could this be in the
> roadmap of the project?”
> 
> It’s been a while that we discussed the limitations of the
> user-friendliness of our inventory. So, yes it’s part of our long
> term road map, and we discussed it at the summit.
> 
> I don’t expect the inventory to be radically changed in this cycle.

Okay. That's not a  problem itself for me. My concerns are only about 
the resulting network configuration.

> 
> However…
> 
> I think (never tried) it’s technically possible to do what you are
> asking for. But it’s gonna involve a few hacks in the inventory.

That's what I thought (based on my previous tests). The question is for 
me: are those hacks going to be problem in a production environment ?

> This is worth a complete conversation on the channel, because it’s
> hard to fully understand your requirements with a brief email.

I will. Thanks for the advice.

> Anyway, let me give you some hints…
> 
> - You could technically assign whatever IP you require in your
> compute/controller nodes, as long as they are properly ssh reachable
> from your deploy node.

Yes, it works.

> - I think you could define many cidr_networks, and change the
> ip_from_q per site (instead of having global_overrides, you’d have
> to define override per host/group of hosts)

I'll test that one.

> - Wherever you place your load balancer, make sure it’s reachable
> from everywhere.
> 
> - Please keep in mind that you most likely (depending on your
> multicast routing configuration?) won’t be able to use haproxy +
> keepalived co-located on your controller nodes, because we are using
> multicast for VRRP. That means that if you have another load balancer,
> or are ready to configure keepalived and haproxy differently, you
> could do it.
> 
> - It’s already possible to inject routes for containers in OSA:
> 
> https://github.com/openstack/openstack-ansible-lxc_container_create/blob/master/templates/debian-interface.cfg.j2#L18-L20
> [1]

Nice !

> A simpler approach would be to build overlays between the sites. It
> completely depends on your environment/requirements.
> 
> Hope it helps.

It does. Thank you ! And see you on the irc channel !

> Best regards,
> 
> Jean-Philippe Evrard (evrardjp)
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