Hello, At the PTG we discussed the future of Infracloud. Jeremy has been looking at moving our existing Infracloud hardware for Vanilla and Chocolate into a more formal hosting environment. Problems with doing this include a lack of rails, network switches, and the hardware is ~7 years old so will consume quite a bit more space and electricity than modern hardware.
Another item we have been concerned about is the clouds we are running are Mitaka OpenStack running on Ubuntu Trusty. This is supported by Ubuntu until April 2019, but is fairly old and having newer clouds would be nice. The proposal we came up with at the PTG is to stop attempting to move the existing hardware as it is costly to do so and comes with a number of additional logistical issues (like finding rails that will work). As a consequence of this we will also not attempt to upgrade the Vanilla and Chocolate clouds to > Mitaka. Instead we will deploy newer OpenStack cloud(s) on hardware should we manage to come across some. This could be new (to us) hardware in a formal hosting environment or baremetal instances provided by some baremetal service. More info can be found at https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/queen-infracloud-notes. Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns. Clark _______________________________________________ OpenStack-Infra mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-infra
