User:Henning Sprang/WorklogDevCampEssen2013-06

Worklog

• made an introduction round - we're a nice mixture of people from single freelancers over consultants in medium sized shops to superlarge companies and with very varying experiences, all very interesting, some total beginners with openstack some people working with it since 2 years
  • Interesting: https://www.aoterra.de/
• Updated my devstack installation on my test server
• Which devstack bfranch to check out? master?
  • for something stable, at the start, when we don't want to run in broken stuff it's stable/grizzly

TODO

• go through http://devstack.org/ again!
• see if my patches for the iso loading from the last workshop are still necessary

• A small single system production installation
  • is it a good idea, useful?
  • How to do it? Handmade? Use some distribuion like Rackspace / Mirantis / Crowbar?
    • http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/private/script/
    • http://docs.openstack.org/grizzly/basic-install/apt/content/
    • http://wiki.debian.org/OpenStackHowto

• Figure out what's necessary to build a vagrant-openstack integration
  • how does vagrant AWS work?
  • What API does Openstack provide to do something similar?

Q and A

TODO: pull my notes from the last workshop here and add new questions popping up!

• Which areas of OpenStack require development/testing/bugfixing/documentation work where I can help
  • directly in OpenStack
  • In packaging for Debian

More Ideas and Notes

Links

• Rackspace stuff
  • http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/getting-started/rackspace-private-cloud
  • http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/installing-rackspace-private-cloud-kvm

• Crowbar stuff
  • http://robhirschfeld.com/crowbar/
  • https://github.com/crowbar/crowbar/wiki/User-documentation

• Main documentation http://www.openstack.org/software/start/
  • http://www.openstack.org/software/openstack-compute/
  • http://www.openstack.org/software/openstack-storage/
  • http://www.openstack.org/software/openstack-networking/
  • http://www.openstack.org/software/openstack-dashboard/
  • http://www.openstack.org/software/openstack-shared-services/

• IX Articles - I bought them
  • http://www.heise.de/ix/inhalt/2012/07/126/

       * http://www.heise.de/ix/inhalt/2012/08/138/
       * http://www.heise.de/ix/inhalt/2012/09/146/

Work tasks

• Current Work related stuff
  • Figuring out the REST API https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/OpenStackRESTAPI
  • Figuring out how to deploy Openstack Node and Virtual machines with Chef
  • Checking out where and how Django and SQLAlchemy are used in OpenStack
  • Might OpenStack or one of it's Distributions be more suited to setup self-service virtualization for developers than Proxmox.

• Getting an overview and start a comparision of OpenStack third party tools like
  • Mirantis
  • Rackspace OpenStack distribution
  • HP Openstack distribution

• Do a comparison/ evaluation of Openstack against other virtualiztaion

management tools

• • XCP
  • OpenNebula
  • Cloudstack
  • Proxmox
  • Steps: define criteria and scenario, assess options against criteria, evaluate

• Figuring out how to compine ansible and openstack
  • ansible config for an openstack server setup
  • use ansible to deploy openstack virtual machines