On 17/10/13 00:41, Jonathan Proulx wrote: > Welcome, > > Not sure about the docker support question, so I'll leave that to others > > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 12:38 AM, Sarah Gerweck <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Is Havana still on track to be released in two days? Or is the release >> calendar out of date? If Havana will really be out in two days I will >> certainly wait. If Havana is coming late, does anybody have a best-guess >> ballpark timeline? (A week? A month? A quarter? I promise not to complain if >> it's inaccurate: I'm just trying to figure out if it would be worth >> waiting.) > > The release engineering types will have a more specific answer, but > OpenStack releases tend to be very much on time. I haven't paid > minute attention but if they haven't been precisely on time it's only > varied by a few days. > >> If I want to install Havana before it's officially released, what's the best >> way to do that? For the OS, is the Ubuntu server distro with bundled >> OpenStack the best way to go? (That is my current inclination, as I want to >> get this stuff working as quickly as possible—but I obviously don't want to >> do anything stupid.) > > If Ubuntu is your OS of choice I'd recommend 12.04 with packages from > their "cloud archive" > see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/CloudArchive , they even have a > havana repo up (I'm using 12.04 and grizzly not sure what is in havana > there) > >> Is there a good preview build of Ubuntu+OpenStack out there that has the >> latest Havana builds or would I need to roll my own? (And how hard is this?) > > Using your configuration management system of choice is usually best, > most have pretty good openstack support. I'm most familiar with the > puppet way. Going completely roll your own isn't that bad, most > people get hung up a bit on networking (even with community config > modules or cook books). This this is good for conceptual discussion > about what implementation strategies meet your goals. #openstack IRC > on freenode is excellent for when you trip up trying to implement > those plans and are trying to debug. > > There's lots of moving parts, but once you get use to the layout and > terminology it's not too hard to find your way around. > >> If I were to install the current Ubuntu server distro with Grizzly, how hard >> would it be to upgrade everything later? I won't have a big cluster or >> anything: just a couple of very powerful boxes. (I wouldn't want to have to >> recreate the VMs or reinstall the OS, but some downtime wouldn't be a >> problem.) > > Given the short cycle I'd do the initial deploy and test with havana > rc2 bits that are out now. Named version upgrades don't require VM > downtime though they do tend to disrupt the control plane (there's > work to provide V-1 backwards compatibility so this goes away too, not > sure how close or far that goal is), going from rc2 to release should > be completely non disruptive. > >> I've never installed OpenStack before but I'm pretty good at figuring things >> out. I'm sure I can read the manual when it comes time to do the actual >> setup: I'm just looking for a little bit of information to help me figure >> out what I want to set up. > > http://docs.openstack.org has lots of good stuff, though it can be > challenging to know quite where to look. Probably best to start with > Install guide and then the admin guides. Note that the page will > point you to the grizzly docs but you can get to the latest pre-havana > docs (which may be incomplete yet) by swapping the "grizzly" in the > url with "trunk" for exmaple > http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/install/apt/content/
Install guides for Havana are at: http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/install-guide/install/yum/content/ http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/install-guide/install/apt/content/ http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/install-guide/install/zypper/content/ not yet ready, but close: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/HavanaDocTesting > > -Jon > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack
