[Openstack] OpenStack Installation Woes - Need re-assurance and help.

Jay Pipes jaypipes at gmail.com
Tue Mar 13 13:43:20 UTC 2012


On 03/13/2012 09:00 AM, Kevin Jackson wrote:
> Thanks a lot for the points Andi (and the links), but not to stray away
> from my original post: I don't want complexity at this stage - I want a
> single server that works.  I haven't even got that.
> I had a multi node set up working (to some degree of butchery) of an
> early Essex-1 release using Orchestra, PXE booting and doing appropriate
> post-configuration, if a little bit of a hack.  We're a modest size
> digital hosting environment - introducing alternative PXE booting and
> config management systems ontop of something that is already causing us
> pain isn't something we're looking at right now.  Given a fairly slick
> PXE boot environment already across multiple datacentres of the rest of
> our kit means we can move to using this for OpenStack.  That's an aside
> - I mentioned prod, but not confuse a way of rolling this out in our
> datacentres.
>
> The issues stem from a basic install.  I'd love to chat about bare-metal
> provisioning issues as it means I've got OpenStack running.  I haven't.
>   Yet.
> I've raised a bug just now
> (https://bugs.launchpad.net/glance/+bug/953989) which might shed light
> on my issues as it's possible its not a bug, but process/config issue.
>   This would be great to hear as it means there's an easy fix.
> Given that keystone underpins the rest of the environment means that my
> frustrations could be solved.

Sorry to hear about your install troubles, Kevin! I've added a reply to 
that bug report above that should get you in better shape.

-jay




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