Category Archives: OpenStack
Installing OpenStack Ussuri in a multicompute node configuration in your home lab
This post covers installing from the RDO project documentation that can be found at https://www.rdoproject.org, it uses the ‘packstack’ tool covered at https://www.rdoproject.org/install/packstack with the main changes in this post being defining additional compute nodes plus installing heat support as … Continue reading
OpenStack Magnum Container Infrastructure – My Tests
Summary of results: While OpenStack deploys all the necessary components to create a working infrastructure the available ‘atomic’ images just do not work. You end up with all the VMs and new private networking required in place, but the OS’s … Continue reading
Installing the OpenStack Stein release from the RDO repositories
As you are I am sure all aware the OpenStack Stein release is available and documented on the RDO site now. While the “stein” release has been available for a while this post took a long time to prepare as … Continue reading
Openstack Queens, my latest install from RDO
This post is based on the “queens” release of OpenStack available from the RDO distribution site. It is based upon the documentation available at https://www.rdoproject.org/install/packstack/, but modified to install the services I wish to play with which are not installed … Continue reading
Laziness in accessing instances in my home OpenStack lab
I covered in an earlier post how to setup ssh as a proxy on a gateway server to access instances via that proxy, but as that would always connect to servers using my userid regardless of what external user connected … Continue reading
Decided to finally have a look at “puppet”.
When I initially had issues with Puppet I also looked at “Chef” but my issues with Chef were that it needs a damn site more resources to run plus to download the main chef server component you have to go … Continue reading
OpenStack Ocata install from the RDO repositories
Why a fresh install instead of an upgrade ? I gave up on trying to upgrade from Newton to Ocata using the RDO repositories. The upgrade instructions have now been updated for the Ocata release in the RDO documentation web … Continue reading
OpenStack – I am stuck on Newton for now
Issues with upgrading from Newton to Ocata have made me hold off upgrading to Ocata, I did make a few attempts. Attempt One After a normal upgrade from Newton to Ocata there were errors in the logs saying the placement … Continue reading
RDO OpenStack disk space usage, Newton release
This is for those of you who have installed the RDO release using the default loopback device for cinder volume storage and swift storage. It is a brief set of notes I will refer back to myself on where the … Continue reading
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