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[Kevin Jackson <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.abes@xxxxxxxxx> 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
> <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> 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.
> >
> >
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> > Kevin Jackson
> > @itarchitectkev
> >
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