Open Stack

On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 6:11 PM, Imtiaz Chowdhury
<imtiaz.chowdhury at workday.com> wrote:
> Hi Openstack operators,
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> Most Openstack HA deployment use 3 node database cluster, 3 node rabbitMQ
> cluster and 3 Controllers. I am wondering whether there are any studies done
> that show the pros and cons of co-locating database and messaging service
> with the Openstack control services.  In other words, I am very interested
> in learning about advantages and disadvantages, in terms of ease of
> deployment, upgrade and overall API performance, of having 3 all-in-one
> Openstack controller over a more distributed deployment model.

I'm not aware of any actual case studies, but this is the (current)
default model for tripleo and its downstream product, so there would
be a lot of deployments like this out there in the wild. In the
default deployment everything but compute is on these 3 nodes running
on the physical OS.

Do you mean 3 physical servers with everything running on the physical OS?

My opinion is that 3 physical nodes to run all the control plane
services is quite common, but in custom deployments I either run vms
and containers on those or just containers. I'd use at least lxc to
segregate services into their own containers.

I would also suggest that using those same physical servers as
north/south "network nodes" (which you probably don't have as I
believe workday is a big opencontrail user) or hosts for stateful
metric systems (ie. mongodb) can cause issues performance wise, but
co-located mysql/galera and rabbit on the same nodes as the rest of
the openstack control plane hasn't been a problem for me yet, but with
containers I could split them out fairly easily if needed.

Thanks,
Curtis.

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> References to any work done in this area will be highly appreciated.
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> Thanks,
> Imtiaz
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