[Openstack] Complete Newb Questions.
Hi! Long time Linux admin, who's finally decided that the cloud is real, and I'm just thankful that there's an OSS answer to AWS. And now, it's time to get my feet wet. Which leads me to two questions: 1) I'm really surprised by how few books I see on OpenStack -- especially at the introductory level -- and how tepid the reviews for the O'Reilly books are. Is there favored documentation, either dead tree, or electronic, that I should be checking out? 2) I'd really like to set up a home install -- DevStack seems to be the way to fly since I don't exactly have a rack of systems lying around for my own personal use. Is there a better approach I should be taking? Thanks much, -Ken ___ Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack Post to : openstack@lists.openstack.org Unsubscribe : http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack
Re: [Openstack] Complete Newb Questions.
Hello Ken As I was on the same boat as you, I'd like to share my thoughts with you 1. Its really not surprising that there are few books on OpenStack. Openstack is going under rapid development. It takes a author to dive into all the features of a particular version of OpenStack and write about it. And by the time the book gets published the content becomes outdated due to the faster development of OpenStack. Cutting edge/Bleeding edge, Openstack is exactly that is. The same goes for numerous 'how to' guides available on the internet. They become outdated very quickly. So, you have to do a lot of study and basically connect the dots. Expect a fair degree of cuts and tears/frustrating moments as you go through the learning process. 2. DevStack is good for home/lab install. But before going with that, I would have a look at http://docs.openstack.org/ understand various components of Openstack, how they work together etc etc and then get hands dirty. I went with RDO and had success standing up a 3 node setup (on single physical machine, 3VM running under KVM ). You can have a look at it as well (https://openstack.redhat.com/Main_Page). hope this helps. Best wishes on your journey. regards, Maruf On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote: Hi! Long time Linux admin, who's finally decided that the cloud is real, and I'm just thankful that there's an OSS answer to AWS. And now, it's time to get my feet wet. Which leads me to two questions: 1) I'm really surprised by how few books I see on OpenStack -- especially at the introductory level -- and how tepid the reviews for the O'Reilly books are. Is there favored documentation, either dead tree, or electronic, that I should be checking out? 2) I'd really like to set up a home install -- DevStack seems to be the way to fly since I don't exactly have a rack of systems lying around for my own personal use. Is there a better approach I should be taking? Thanks much, -Ken ___ Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ openstack Post to : openstack@lists.openstack.org Unsubscribe : http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ openstack ___ Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack Post to : openstack@lists.openstack.org Unsubscribe : http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack
Re: [Openstack] Complete Newb Questions.
Hi Ken, To try openstack, other than DevStack, you can also try The OpenStackCookbook https://github.com/OpenStackCookbook/OpenStackCookbook, which builds OpenStack on Ubuntu and uses Vagrant and VirtualBox. Also, you can try Packstack https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Packstack, which builds OpenStack on RedHat systems - ex. CentOS, Fedora, etc. If you wanna get a bit more deeper, you can try puppet. Thanks. Regards, Nitish B. On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote: Hi! Long time Linux admin, who's finally decided that the cloud is real, and I'm just thankful that there's an OSS answer to AWS. And now, it's time to get my feet wet. Which leads me to two questions: 1) I'm really surprised by how few books I see on OpenStack -- especially at the introductory level -- and how tepid the reviews for the O'Reilly books are. Is there favored documentation, either dead tree, or electronic, that I should be checking out? 2) I'd really like to set up a home install -- DevStack seems to be the way to fly since I don't exactly have a rack of systems lying around for my own personal use. Is there a better approach I should be taking? Thanks much, -Ken ___ Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ openstack Post to : openstack@lists.openstack.org Unsubscribe : http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ openstack ___ Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack Post to : openstack@lists.openstack.org Unsubscribe : http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack
