RealDeployments

Real deployments

This page documents details of real OpenStack deployments.

Wikimedia

Contact: Ryan Lane

Documentation

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Labs
• http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/OpenStack
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenStackManager
• http://ryandlane.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Infrastructure-as-an-Open-Source-Project-FOSDEM-publish.odp

The ODP file of the FOSDEM talk has full notes if you switch to notes view.

Deployment scripts

Puppet repository, which has OpenStack manifests (for swift and nova) and some scripts used for managing gluster, nfs and ganglia in a per-project way:

• https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=operations/puppet.git;a=summary
• https://labsconsole.wikimedia.org/wiki/Git#Restrictions_and_Anonymous_access

Blog posts

Ryan Lane's blog about how certain things are handled:

• http://ryandlane.com/blog/2012/04/24/per-project-sudo-policies-using-sudo-ldap-and-puppet/
• http://ryandlane.com/blog/2011/11/01/sharing-home-directories-to-instances-within-a-project-using-puppet-ldap-autofs-and-nova/
• http://ryandlane.com/blog/2011/11/02/a-process-for-puppetization-of-a-service-using-nova/
• http://ryandlane.com/blog/2011/01/24/announcing-openstackmanager-extension-for-mediawiki/
• http://ryandlane.com/blog/2011/01/02/building-a-test-and-development-infrastructure-using-openstack/

Wikimedia blog about design decisions:

• http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/04/16/introduction-to-wikimedia-labs/