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[Joshua Harlow <harlowja@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Another idea:

http://meego.gitorious.org/meego-developer-tools/spectacle

That python code seems to be able to take a yaml defintion and generate either rpm specfiles or debian pkg files.

It might be forked or extended (or both) and used to generate the initial set of package definitions for openstack in a non-pkg specific format...

On 3/20/12 11:01 AM, "Justin Santa Barbara" <justin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Thomas,

I think devstack has done a lot for the developer's use-case, but I believe we should also have a official / semi-official project that does some sort of packaging to help the production use-case.  I've proposed a summit discussion: http://summit.openstack.org/sessions/view/26

The background: I want a semi-production deployment, but as a developer I still want to be able to edit the code (which makes packages inconvenient).  devstack is orientated towards e.g. wiping the databases.

I'm hoping that all the various OS packagers can work together, or at least tell us what sucks.  As a community, we should solve these problems once, and the OpenStack project shouldn't treat them as externalities.  I've been doing some initial coding here:
https://github.com/justinsb/openstack-simple-config

The first use case I'm trying to solve is "single node installation of OpenStack" that is as easy as possible, but also isn't painting the user into the corner.  Think "apt-get openstack", then the user finds they like it and grows to a 4 node cluster, all the way up to a 100 node cluster.  So it uses KVM, FlatManager, config drive injection, Postgresql, etc. - I'm afraid it is still quite "opinionated"!  I have Keystone, Glance & Nova installing.  I'm using supervisord to avoid any OS dependencies/flamewars, but I would imagine that any OS packager could move it to their preferred init.d flavor easily.  Swift is next on my list - I was facing the problem that the number of replicas isn't changeable, though I have a patch for that now.

If you'd like to work together, I'd love to collaborate (and that holds for anyone doing packaging).  I'm hanging out in #openstack-packaging

Justin