You can deploy openstack to a single machine in a number of ways. I think this one actually makes an LXC for each instance, I just found this
http://astokes.org/ubuntu-openstack-installer/ Marco's way on the other hand uses --deploy-to N to direct juju to install the charm to a specific machine. http://marcoceppi.com/2014/06/deploying-openstack-with-just-two-machines/ You can also see from his video that he's a BSG fan :) What I like to do is create a MAAS of VMs and deploy to that. You can configure IPMI power on/off behavior by configuring the virsh interface. When I develop I do something like this for RAD and machine management. Currently when you remove a service from juju it leaves that machine behind and provisions a new one should you deploy again, this can lead to a ummm. surprising AWS bill. So for example when I was customizing jenkins for work here I did this. ppetraki@:jenkins-ci$ cat Makefile .PHONY: deploy clean: rm -rf charms/trusty install: clean mkdir -p charms/trusty cp -a jenkins charms/trusty/jenkins deploy: install juju destroy-environment $(shell juju env) --force -y juju bootstrap --constraints mem=4G juju deploy --to 0 local:jenkins --config=jenkins.yaml \ --repository=charms/ juju expose jenkins Which deploys jenkins to the bootstrap node, which is always node zero. I make some changes locally, and the makefile pushes the latest version to my local repo, zaps the old environment, which destroys everything, and start a fresh deployment. Hack, rinse, and repeat. I'm a big advocate of sizing stuff in the cloud so for example you could see how your media server performs on various sized AWS machines and then use that as a guide to how much capacity you really need on your metal. Peter On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 7:53 AM, Tom Buskey <t...@buskey.name> wrote: > My intro to Openstack was someone in sales from Canonical showing how he > used HP microservers and other parts from eBay to teach himself Openstack. > Juju was just being introduced and at the time, the minimal recommended > stack was 12 nodes. > > He had the whole setup in his office. 12 HP Microservers running Intel > Atom (they have an AMD version too) maxed out to 4 GB RAM each. I think > some will go to 8 GB. He added $30 gigabit PCIe x1 card. I think there is > a 2 port card out there. 1 gigabit ethernet switch, 1 APC PDU for when > IPMI wedges on the HPs. > > Quiet enough to be in his office. Low power enough to run from the wall > outlets. Useful enough that people squawked when he took it down. > > I've been using headless VirtualBox VMs to run my servers in. It means as > long as VirtualBox runs on my host, I don't need to reinstall my servers. > My host does VirtualBox and fileserving. Everything else is a VM, > including Plex (my media server). > > I'm planning on moving my VM server to an Openstack cloud. KVM feels like > it has less overhead than VirtualBox and like you, I'm doing openstack at > work also. > > On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 10:17 PM, Henry Gessau <henry.ges...@acm.org> > wrote: > >> Joshua Judson Rosen <roz...@geekspace.com> wrote: >> > Henry Gessau <henry.ges...@acm.org> writes: >> >> >> >> I want to set up a server at home for a bunch of projects and >> experiments. >> >> >> >> I need to use Ubuntu 14.04 server for the OS, and an Intel (not AMD) >> CPU. >> >> >> >> Canonical's certified list[1] is not very helpful. I assume 14.04 will >> install >> >> just fine on many systems, but I would prefer to have confirmation from >> >> someone/somewhere before buying something. >> >> >> >> Requirements: >> >> - Reasonably quiet. It's going to reside near me in my home office. >> >> - Intel VT-x support. >> >> - Four cores. More would be nice. >> >> - Must support at least 32GB RAM. >> >> - Preferably under $800 for chassis + PS + CPU. >> >> >> >> I assume it would need to be some Core i3/i5 variant. I don't need raw >> speed, >> >> so i7 is probably overkill, and I would prefer to keep the power low. >> I admit >> >> I don't understand the Xeon family at all. >> >> >> >> I was thinking something along the lines of an HP ProLiant >> MicroServer, or a >> >> Lenovo ThinkServer TS140? But I would be happy to assemble from parts. >> > >> > If you need more than 32 GB RAM, it doesn't look like you want >> > either of those machines: the Levno TS140 appears to max out at 32 GB >> RAM, >> > and the HP Proliant MicroServers appear to max out at 16 GB. >> > >> > Have you looked at ZaReason <http://www.zareason.com/>, >> > or maybe System76 <http://www.system76.com/>? >> > >> > I have experience with one of these: >> > >> > http://zareason.com/shop/Breeze-Server-5880s.html >> > >> > It's very quiet and seems to meet _almost_ all of your requirements... >> > except for the ">= 32 GB RAM" req, which actually seems to be a little >> > exotic for this class of machines. >> >> Yeah, after much browsing I have come to the conclusion that most small >> home >> servers seem to max out at 16GB. The price class seems to be the factor. >> >> I have upgraded both my work laptop and my home desktop to 32GB, and I >> ain't >> going back. :) I work and play with OpenStack, where I spin up a bunch of >> VMs >> and then deploy them as a "cloud", which means further VMs get spun up >> inside >> those VMs. It's turtles all the way down and it eats RAM for lunch. >> >> > >> > (I've also had positive experience with a number of other >> > models from ZaReason, though not anything that meets your >> > requirements) >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnhlug-discuss mailing list >> gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org >> http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ >> > > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ > >
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