Re: [Openstack] Best approach for deploying Essex?

2012-04-04 Thread Kevin Jackson
+1 on the Ubuntu 12.04 Precise and Essex. Whilst there are other methods and OS of choice, given you've been using 11.10 - 12.04 is the natural home for it. The betas of Precise are rock-solid and can vouch for the Ubuntu packaging following quite quickly behind the devs. I highly recommend this

Re: [Openstack] Best approach for deploying Essex?

2012-04-04 Thread Duncan McGreggor
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Adam Gandelman ad...@canonical.com wrote: On 04/03/2012 08:20 AM, Lillie Ross-CDSR11 wrote: My question is, should I base our new installation directly off the Essex branch in the git repository, or use the packages that will be deployed as part of the

Re: [Openstack] Best approach for deploying Essex?

2012-04-04 Thread Lillie Ross-CDSR11
Hi Kevin, I'm in the process of looking at the Ubuntu packages. I've booted up 3 12.04 instances in our existing cloud and have installed the Ubuntu packages. I'm playing with the new keystone 'lite' service as I write this. In fact, I'm looking at your script to bootstrap keystone versus

[Openstack] Best approach for deploying Essex?

2012-04-03 Thread Lillie Ross-CDSR11
With the pending release of Essex, I'm making plans to upgrade our internal cloud infrastructure. My question is what will be the best approach? Our cloud is being used to support internal research activities and thus needs to be 'relatively' stable, however as new features become available

Re: [Openstack] Best approach for deploying Essex?

2012-04-03 Thread Adam Gandelman
On 04/03/2012 08:20 AM, Lillie Ross-CDSR11 wrote: My question is, should I base our new installation directly off the Essex branch in the git repository, or use the packages that will be deployed as part of the associated Ubuntu 12.04LTS release? With Diablo, I was forced to use packages

Re: [Openstack] Best approach for deploying Essex?

2012-04-03 Thread Lillie Ross-CDSR11
Hi Adam, Thanks for the update. Actually, I'm in the process of reading about your testing and integration framework for Openstack (http://ubuntuserver.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/704/) as I write this. Yes, Keystone integration seemed to be the big bugaboo in the Ubuntu/Diablo release. I've