[Openstack] Why are OpenStack installs *so* hard to get fully functional?

Ohad Levy ohadlevy at gmail.com
Sun May 18 13:03:04 UTC 2014


On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 5:32 PM, James Burnash - NOAA Affiliate <
james.burnash at noaa.gov> wrote:

> Greetings All.
>
> First  - some context:
>
> I've been doing enterprise Unix / Linux administration for 20+ years, and
> I like to think that I'm reasonably competent at installing and
> administering complex service stacks. So I'm not new to this area of
> endeavor.
>
> What I've found, however, is that, quite simply - the instructions just
> don't work to ultimately produce a fully functional OpenStack platform,
> even using the "official "documentation.
>
> Quick Prototype installation - assorted failures
> on "regular"
> <https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_OpenStack_Platform/2/html/Getting_Started_Guide/part-Deploying_OS_using_PackStack.html>
> redhat.com:
> (http<https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_OpenStack_Platform/2/html/Getting_Started_Guide/part-Deploying_OS_using_PackStack.html>
> s://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_OpenStack_Platfo<https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_OpenStack_Platform/2/html/Getting_Started_Guide/part-Deploying_OS_using_PackStack.html><https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_OpenStack_Platform/2/html/Getting_Started_Guide/part-Deploying_OS_using_PackStack.html>
> rm/2/html/Getting_Started_Guide/part-Deploying_OS_using_PackStack.html<https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_OpenStack_Platform/2/html/Getting_Started_Guide/part-Deploying_OS_using_PackStack.html>
> )
>
> Deploying it with Foreman:
> (http://openstack.redhat.com/Deploying_RDO_using_Foreman#Foreman_with_RDO)
> ...
>

Openstack deployment using RDO is improving a lot via a new set of foreman
plugins, see [1] for current wip demo.

Ohad

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1deqJz7q1w
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