On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Debo Dutta (dedutta) <dedu...@cisco.com> wrote: > > Have you tinkered with devstack …. Its simplifies some of the issues you > raised for a dev guy.
No, I have not used Devstack as the purpose is to simulate a close to production type POC and not a deployment on a single machine. Also we wanted to go through the documentation in detail to increase our understanding of the platform and implement the steps manually. Regards, Aniruddha > > > > From: openstack-bounces+dedutta=cisco....@lists.launchpad.net > [mailto:openstack-bounces+dedutta=cisco....@lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf > Of Aniruddha Khadkikar > Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 9:03 PM > To: openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Subject: [Openstack] User experience and simplified configurations > > > > Hi, > > Its only recently that I have started exploring openstack and the first > thing that comes to my mind is the nature and amount of configuration > required for the various components. > The managed IT Deb packages for Diablo were very helpful in reaching a poc > level implementation involving a separate cloud controller, volume and > glance with swift and with a compute node. > > Are there any plans to simplify the configuration files and develop > command line wizards for a better user experience? > > I believe that with every release an incrementally better experience will > help in greater adoption of the platform. For example I could only get > things working on my third trial. That too led to problems due to EC2 not > working till a project was added using nova manage. I still remain confused > between tenants and projects in Diablo. Logically one customer (tenant) > should be able to run multiple projects. So I was a bit surprised at them > being treated as equivalent. > > First target for simplification could be the various pipeline settings and > the nova configuration. I have found these a bit complicated to understand. > > I have not started testing Essex yet. > > Regards > Aniruddha _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
