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Re: OpenStack Installation Woes - Need re-assurance and help.

 

On 03/13/2012 02:28 AM, Kevin Jackson wrote:


I have tried the following package/scripted installations:

1) Ubuntu 11.10 with Diablo (Nova PPA) - some degree of success - failures around Keystone and EC2 API 2) Ubuntu 11.10 with Managedit PPA - better degree of success, but no EC2 compatibility and some bug fixes not back-ported 3) Ubuntu 12.04 (various releases) with Ubuntu packages - no success apart from getting Keystone to do some things, but failing to get services to use Keystone. 4) Ubuntu 11.10 with Devstack (tried yesterday - unfortunately failed [specific reason escapes me, I'll try another install today, but was around nova compute failing to start])

I nearly got 12.04 working with Essex but then Keystone changed to Keystone light. This also raised concerns with us that between Essex-3 and Essex-4 something as fundamental as Keystone changed and ever since then has formed the crux of my problems. It doesn't help that the documentation @ http://keystone.openstack.org/ differs from http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/install/content/identity-configure-keystone.html. I also see conflicting advice on where Keystone fits - not only is the documentation different depending on where you enter the websites/search but even the Forum has Keystone mentioned under "Futurestack". Is Keystone pinnacle to an Essex release?

I even tried the devstack method of installation thinking this should be the safest option and this failed. I'll try this again though to help here rather than just say it failed. On looking at how Keystone is implemented, I see differences in configuration which I'm unsure what they are (e.g. the service catalog - devstack has a text based catalog and referenced directly in keystone.conf, Ubuntu's are SQL based - on trying the devstack config, Keystone fails to start under Ubuntu 12.04 for example). I also noticed the nova.conf in devstack differs wildly in format to that of Ubuntu following the format for the rest of the configs - is this something nova is moving to?


Hey Kevin-

Sorry to hear about your troubles. I know I was similarly frustrated getting my feet wet with Openstack during the diablo / oneiric cycle. Without knowing details of every problem you've hit in your Ubuntu testing, its difficult to give you simple answers to get you up and going. I can try to offer some assurances that I hope boost your perception of Openstack, specifically Openstack-on-Ubuntu.

We're doing *a lot* of testing around Openstack. If you need some proof that this stuff *actually works*, please see our Jenkins dashboard [1]. Note that this testing takes place across a cluster of physical machines, not an all-in-one-virtual-machine. There are several goals here:

- ensure our packages correctly install the components onto the distro. [2] - ensure our Juju charms are kept up to date with the latest deployment-related configuration changes [3]
  - ensure Openstack still works [4]

Assuming all of the above is still true, we upload a weekly snapshot of Essex (all components) into the Ubuntu archive every Friday. This upload contains a weeks worth of packaging updates, configuration changes and bug fixes. The end goal here is to help make testing the development release of Openstack on the development release of Ubuntu a stable yet bleeding-edge experience. That said, Openstack is still very much a moving target. Lots of things change in a weeks time--as evidenced by the Keystone Lite migration, among other things. Unfortunately, documentation tends to lag behind (if it exists at all).

I'll be the first to admit that none of this stuff is easy. Unless you or your CI robots are spending a good deal of the day tracking upstream development across all components, getting close-to-trunk Openstack running is an extremely daunting task. Speaking for Ubuntu, I expect we'll have documentation added to the Server Guide or elsewhere as the Essex cycle draws to a close and we know *exactly* what we're shipping in Precise. Until then, we certainly appreciate your patience, testing and any bug reports can you supply.

-Adam

PS: If you're interested in Juju or how this is all deployed and orchestrated, please see the Juju stuff at the tail end of the deployment test run [3].


Some links to automated builds, deploys and tests of Essex on Precise as of this morning:
[1] https://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com/view/Precise%20OpenStack%20Testing/
[2] https://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com/view/Precise%20OpenStack%20Testing/job/precise-openstack-essex-glance-trunk/118/console [3] https://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com/view/Precise%20OpenStack%20Testing/job/precise-openstack-essex-deploy/18232/console [4] https://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com/view/Precise%20OpenStack%20Testing/job/precise-openstack-essex-test/473/



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