Author Archives: mark
Openstack:Upgrade from Mitaka to Newton was a pain, but completed
The expected issues with a systemwide update where rabbitmq-server and all the erlang packages have to be removed before the update and re-installed afterward; but that was the only real issue (if you exclude the minor detail that config files … Continue reading
Accessing openstack instances, proxy gateways and proxy clients
While I treat my home lab openstack instances as proper cloud instances, specifically they are supposed to be thrown up and torn down not exist for a long time, I don’t like assigning more that one floating ip per tenant-network … Continue reading
OpenStack Matika DNS resolution, or lack of
Unfortunately even at the Matika release neutron networking is unable to use DNS lookup by instance name yet. The issue is that DNS entries (if DNS is configured to be used) are not created for the instance hostname, but instead … Continue reading
OpenStack RDO using packstack again, Matika release
Apologies in advance for the formatting. The WP template I am using at the moment does not handle PRE correctly and wraps it around rather than letting it scroll. But onward. I finally got my second compute node working correctly … Continue reading
OpenStack – Playing with heat patterns
My attempts to figure out OpenStack are happily producing more headaches for me. This is still on tha Matika release. I have temporarily suspended my attempts to get migration between compute nodes working as I have been sidetracked by heat … Continue reading
qemu qcow2 converting to old format
This post is mainly to remind me how to to it without having to to get the qemu-img help display up all the time. In one of the later releases of Fedora (24 I think) the qcow2 image format changed. … Continue reading
F24 to F25 upgrade notes
Fedora 25 released, most things seem to work apart from… My target environment was my main test machine, intel x64 with 8 cores and 32Gb of memory and LUKS encrypted disks; and a lot of KVM VMs on it. But … Continue reading
OpenStack woes continue
Still playing with OpenStack; Matika currently. After lots of swearing, and reading, a second compute node now appears to be running correctly, using vxlan and openvswitch as the transport layer between the two. At least the hypervisor and compute node … Continue reading
Still trying to get the latest RDO openstack working
Actually, it is probably not the latest release now, I have been working on this for a while. This post will be updated/deleted/re-added a lot as I work through it. Maybe a final post on what I did wrong for … Continue reading
Another new project – Walmarts OneOps – Day 2
DNF should have a few more waring messages Playing with OneOps. Installing the vagrant setup. It needs VirtualBox. VirtualBox needs kernel-devel. dnf install kernel-devel No problems. But VirtualBox still failed to install the kernel driver. The problem was… since I … Continue reading