Hi Andi, Sure - the methods aren't meant for automated production installs, but to get to a world where I can automate using Orchestra or variations on PXE booting, I first need to get to a world where a manual install works. I was getting desperate in having a demonstration available to those that pay my wages - the best candidate I had here were Kiall's managedit repo. Great work (really), but it wouldn't have been anything to be considered for production for obvious reasons.
I looked at Crowbar a few months back and tried to persevere with it, but it was very very clunky and not very friendly to use. I couldn't customise it to my network requirements - which aren't anything out of the ordinary, but I needed customisation like VLAN IDs, etc. The docs pointed to editing Barclamps. An added complexity which I don't believe is necessary in a world where PXE booting an OS is simple and package installation is even simpler. The crux of the challenge I need to solve is just OpenStack configuration but documentation lags development (naturally - not criticising) and comparing like-for-like hasn't worked for me (e.g. devstack configs are completely different to what, say, Ubuntu deb packages expect). Given Canonical's backing of OpenStack I thought I was in good company. After I've a working setup of installing Ubuntu onto a few nodes the next natural step would be to use Orchestra (or Cobbler itself which we currently use). The issue I have is that all the components are installed without out error. I come to use it and keystone doesn't want to play ball with the other components. This leads me to believe it can be two things: misconfiguration or bugs. If its misconfiguration - excellent - I can fix that today if someone shares a script or steps to configure Keystone Light to work with the rest of the environment. In the meantime I'm assuming bugs as I'm not getting anywhere fast with what I currently *think* are the correct steps. Cheers, Kev On 13 March 2012 11:27, andi abes <andi.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Kevin, sorry for the hard time you're having. > However, most of the methods you described, are NOT meant for > production deployments.... (not saying all, because I haven't tried > them all). > You might want to look at projects which aim to automate production > deployments. > I can point you to the one I'm working on (The diablo release is in > production in many installations, The essex series is abit nascent, > but pretty far along). It's here [1] > You can also download ISO's from [2] > (the crowbar mailing list is here [3], so you can see what folks have > said, and check the wiki here [4]) > > hope you have a more successful experience. > > > [1] http://github.com/dellcloudedge/crowbar > [2] http://crowbar.zehicle.com > [3] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/crowbar > [4] http://github.com/dellcloudedge/crowbar/wiki > > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 6:27 AM, Kevin Jackson > <ke...@linuxservices.co.uk> wrote: > > Cheers Padraig - I'll grab a Fedora install and compare notes. > > I guess if Fedora has an installation candidate, the problem is probably > > Ubuntu packaging - at least I can direct my issues at Ubuntu rather than > > OpenStack as a whole... > > > > Kev > > > > > > 2012/3/13 Pádraig Brady <p...@draigbrady.com> > >> > >> On 03/13/2012 09:28 AM, Kevin Jackson wrote: > >> > Dear all, > >> > I had my first sleepless night last night after a conversation I had > in > >> > work regarding an OpenStack installation. > >> > >> > Are my problems OpenStack's or Ubuntu's packaging? I would love to > >> > speak to someone who has this running and direct my questions to the > right > >> > place. > >> > My aim is simple: I want a running OpenStack environment. > >> > >> I'm not familiar with ubuntu's packaging, but to allay your > >> fears about openstack itself, we've recently had a successful Fedora > >> test day testing out various functionality of Essex milestone 4 > >> including the new keystone. I'm not suggesting you switch or > >> anything, but you might be able to copy some of the configuration > >> etc. from the steps detailed at: > >> > >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2012-03-08_OpenStack_Test_Day > >> > >> cheers, > >> Pádraig. > > > > > > -- > > Kevin Jackson > > @itarchitectkev > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > -- Kevin Jackson @itarchitectkev
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