On 2 August 2013 13:36, Mark Chaney <[email protected]> wrote: > So I am planning on setting up my first openstack cloud a little like so > where my Compute nodes will be diskless: > > > http://content.screencast.com/users/MACscr/folders/Snagit/media/539491bf-c5ed-49e8-88a5-d812f954176e/2013-08-02_04-54-29.png > > I will be using Ceph for Object Storage and also RBD for the VM storage. > Since the Compute nodes will be diskless, I will have to boot them through > pxe and load the OS into memory and then also when guests are booted, they > will have to be done through their Volumes since Ephemeral storage will not > be available. > > Since I unfortunately seem to be going against the standard practice, I am > wondering if anyone has any suggestions on any deployment or management > tools that I might be able to use to better create my openstack mini cloud > and also manage it (adding new nodes, storage, etc). Unfortunately it looks > like tools like Fuel for Openstack or the Rackspace Private Cloud toolset > not only do not support diskless Compute nodes, but also do not even > support Ceph. I know I could build everything from scratch, but thats not > only going to be time consuming, but a pain to maintain in the future. The > TripleO project seems to have a lot of promise, but unfortunately appears > to be a bit to early in its dev cycle and also at least at its current > state, to be a bit over my head. >
Have you considered booting instances from volumes stored in ceph? In such case you dont have to use pxe and keep os in memory. I suggest using chef/puppet whatever is suitable for you for deployment. regards -- Maciej Gałkiewicz Shelly Cloud Sp. z o. o., Sysadmin http://shellycloud.com/, [email protected] KRS: 0000440358 REGON: 101504426
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