Re: [openstack-dev] [Zaqar] Zaqar and SQS Properties of Distributed Queues

2014-09-23 Thread Fox, Kevin M
Flavio wrote The reasoning, as explained in an other email, is that from a use-case perspective, strict ordering won't hurt you if you don't need it whereas having to implement it in the client side because the service doesn't provide it can be a PITA. The reasoning is flawed though. If

Re: [openstack-dev] [all][tripleo] New Project - Kolla: Deploy and Manage OpenStack using Kubernetes and Docker

2014-09-23 Thread Fox, Kevin M
I'm interested in how this relates/conflicts with the TripleO goal of using OpenStack to deploy OpenStack. It looks like (maybe just superficially) that Kubernetes is simply a combination of (nova + docker driver) = container schedualer and (heat) = orchestration. They both schedule

Re: [openstack-dev] [all][tripleo] New Project - Kolla: Deploy and Manage OpenStack using Kubernetes and Docker

2014-09-23 Thread Fox, Kevin M
There are other options. 3 docker containers with ceph in them perhaps. Kevin From: Steven Dake Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 7:21:39 PM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [all][tripleo] New Project -

Re: [openstack-dev] [OpenStack][Trove] Building new image for trove

2014-09-24 Thread Fox, Kevin M
Ive had good luck recently enabling heat suppprt and then tweaking the trove default template to use a standard image and install the guest agent at launch. So no custom image needed. Thanks, Kevin From: Swapnil Kulkarni Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][TripleO] Nested resources

2013-12-09 Thread Fox, Kevin M
09, 2013 8:50 AM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][TripleO] Nested resources On Dec 5, 2013, at 8:11 PM, Fox, Kevin M wrote: I think the security issue can be handled by not actually giving the underlying resource to the user

Re: [openstack-dev] Unified Guest Agent proposal

2013-12-10 Thread Fox, Kevin M
Yeah. Its likely that the metadata server stuff will get more scalable/hardened over time. If it isn't enough now, lets fix it rather then coming up with a new system to work around it. I like the idea of using the network since all the hypervisors have to support network drivers already. They

Re: [openstack-dev] Unified Guest Agent proposal

2013-12-13 Thread Fox, Kevin M
to Marconi's team to handle security issues while it is part of their mission statement to deliver a messaging service in between VMs. Le 12 déc. 2013 22:09, Fox, Kevin M kevin@pnnl.govmailto:kevin@pnnl.gov a écrit : Yeah, I think the extra nic is unnecessary too. There already

Re: [openstack-dev] Unified Guest Agent proposal

2013-12-16 Thread Fox, Kevin M
[l...@redhat.com] Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 8:18 AM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] Unified Guest Agent proposal On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 11:32:01AM -0800, Fox, Kevin M wrote: I hadn't thought about that use case, but that does

Re: [openstack-dev] [trove] My thoughts on the Unified Guest Agent

2013-12-18 Thread Fox, Kevin M
Someone's gotta make/maintain the trove/savanna images though. They usually are built from packages. If there is a unified agent, then it only has to be packaged once. If there is one per special type of agent, its one package per special type of agent. I don't think there is a free lunch here,

Re: [openstack-dev] [trove] My thoughts on the Unified Guest Agent

2013-12-18 Thread Fox, Kevin M
How about a different approach then... OpenStack has thus far been very successful providing an API and plugins for dealing with things that cloud providers need to be able to switch out to suit their needs. There seems to be two different parts to the unified agent issue: * How to get rpc

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements

2014-01-07 Thread Fox, Kevin M
Sounds very useful. Would there be a diskimage-builder flag then to say you prefer packages over source? Would it fall back to source if you specified packages and there were only source-install.d for a given element? Thanks, Kevin From: James Slagle

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements

2014-01-07 Thread Fox, Kevin M
I was going to stay silent on this one, but since you asked... /me puts his customer hat on We source OpenStack from RDO for the packages and additional integration testing that comes from the project instead of using OpenStack directly. I was a little turned off from Triple-O when I saw it

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements

2014-01-07 Thread Fox, Kevin M
One of the major features using a distro over upstream gives is integration. rhel6 behaves differently then ubuntu 13.10. Sometimes it takes a while to fix upstream for a given distro, and even then it may not even be accepted because the distro's too old, go away. Packages allow a distro to

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements

2014-01-07 Thread Fox, Kevin M
Another piece to the conversation I think is update philosophy. If you are always going to require a new image and no customization after build ever, ever, the messiness that source usually cause in the file system image really doesn't matter. The package system allows you to easily update,

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in tripleo-image-elements

2014-01-08 Thread Fox, Kevin M
Let me give you a more concrete example, since you still think one size fits all here. I am using OpenStack on my home server now. In the past, I had one machine with lots of services on it. At times, I would update one service and during the update process, a different service would break.

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] About ports backing floating IPs

2014-01-14 Thread Fox, Kevin M
Option 5: If the implementation works good, but its just a confusing ui, you could always change the code so it filters out the floating-ip ports from view. Make them a pure implementation detail that a user never sees. Kevin From: Salvatore Orlando

Re: [openstack-dev] Proposal for dd disk i/o performance blueprint of cinder.

2014-01-15 Thread Fox, Kevin M
What about a configuration option on the volume for delete type? I can see some possible options: * None - Don't clear on delete. Its junk data for testing and I don't want to wait. * Zero - Return zero's from subsequent reads either by zeroing on delete, or by faking zero reads initially. *

Re: [openstack-dev] Proposal for dd disk i/o performance blueprint of cinder.

2014-01-15 Thread Fox, Kevin M
@lists.openstack.org Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] Proposal for dd disk i/o performance blueprint of cinder. On 01/15/2014 06:00 PM, Fox, Kevin M wrote: What about a configuration option on the volume for delete type? I can see some possible options: * None - Don't clear on delete. Its junk data for testing

Re: [openstack-dev] Proposal for dd disk i/o performance blueprint of cinder.

2014-01-15 Thread Fox, Kevin M
From:Fox, Kevin M kevin@pnnl.gov To:OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org, Date:01/15/2014 06:06 PM Subject:Re: [openstack-dev] Proposal for dd disk i/o

Re: [openstack-dev] Proposal for dd disk i/o performance blueprint of cinder.

2014-01-16 Thread Fox, Kevin M
Yeah, I think the evil firmware issue is separate and should be solved separately. Ideally, there should be a mode you can set the bare metal server into where firmware updates are not allowed. This is useful to more folks then just baremetal cloud admins. Something to ask the hardware vendors

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] our update story: can people live with it?

2014-01-22 Thread Fox, Kevin M
Another tricky bit left is how to handle service restarts as needed? Thanks, Kevin From: Dan Prince [dpri...@redhat.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 10:15 AM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Subject: Re:

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] our update story: can people live with it?

2014-01-22 Thread Fox, Kevin M
I think most of the time taken to reboot is spent in bringing down/up the services though, so I'm not sure what it really buys you if you do it all. It may let you skip the crazy long bootup time on enterprise hardware, but that could be worked around with kexec on the full reboot method too.

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] our update story: can people live with it?

2014-01-22 Thread Fox, Kevin M
Maybe I misunderstand, but I thought: kexec - lets you boot a new kernel/initrd starting at the point a boot loader would skipping the bios init. All previous running processes are not running in the new boot just like a normal reboot. CRIU - Lets you snapshot/restart running processes. While

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] our update story: can people live with it?

2014-01-23 Thread Fox, Kevin M
Would docker work for this? Assume every service gets its own docker container. A deployed node is then a docker base image with a set of service containers. Updating an image could be: Check if base part of image updated (kernel, docker). if so, full redeploy the node. Sync each container

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] bp proposal: discovery of peer instances through metadata service

2014-01-24 Thread Fox, Kevin M
Would it make sense to simply have the neutron metadata service re-export every endpoint listed in keystone at /openstack/api/endpoint-name? Thanks, Kevin From: Murray, Paul (HP Cloud Services) [pmur...@hp.com] Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 11:04 AM To:

Re: [openstack-dev] [Heat] About LaunchConfiguration and Autoscaling

2014-01-30 Thread Fox, Kevin M
The reuse case can be handled via using a nested Stack. The scaled_resource type property would allow that to happen in the first arrangement. I don't think you can specify a resource type/nested stack with a LaunchConfig which makes it much less preferable I think. So its less flexible and

Re: [openstack-dev] [diskimage-builder]

2014-01-31 Thread Fox, Kevin M
Yeah, we are running it on RHEL6.5 and it seems to just work. Haven't tried CentOS 6.5 specifically but should work the same. Thanks, Kevin From: Robert Nettleton [rnettle...@hortonworks.com] Sent: Friday, January 31, 2014 1:34 PM To:

Re: [openstack-dev] [Heat] in-instance update hooks

2014-02-11 Thread Fox, Kevin M
Another scaling down/update use case: Say I have a pool of ssh servers for users to use (compute cluster login nodes). Autoscaling up is easy. Just launch a new node and add it to the load balancer. Scaling down/updating is harder. It should ideally: * Set the admin state on the load balancer

Re: [openstack-dev] [Solum] Question about Zuul's role in Solum

2014-02-14 Thread Fox, Kevin M
I think a lot of projects don't bother to gate, because its far to much work to set up a workable system. I can think of several projects I've worked on that would benefit from it but haven't because of time/cost of setting it up. If I could just say solum create project foo and get it, I'm

Re: [openstack-dev] [heat][neutron] OS::Heat::AutoScalingGroup and OS::Neutron::PoolMember?

2014-03-12 Thread Fox, Kevin M
I submitted a blueprint a while back that I think is relevant: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/heat/+spec/elasticloadbalancing-lbaas Currently heat autoscaling doesn't interact with Neutron lbaas and the configurable bits aren't configurable enough to allow it without code changes as far as I

Re: [openstack-dev] [heat][neutron] OS::Heat::AutoScalingGroup and OS::Neutron::PoolMember?

2014-03-13 Thread Fox, Kevin M
Hi Chris, That's great to hear. I'm looking forward to installing icehouse and testing that out. :) Thanks, Kevin From: Chris Armstrong [chris.armstr...@rackspace.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2014 1:29 PM To: Fox, Kevin M; OpenStack Development Mailing List

Re: [openstack-dev] Disaster Recovery for OpenStack - call for stakeholder

2014-03-13 Thread Fox, Kevin M
Funny this topic came up. I was just looking into some of this yesterday. Here's some links that I came up with: * https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Virtualization_Administration_Guide/sub-sect-qemu-ga-freeze-thaw.html - Describes how

Re: [openstack-dev] [Marconi] Why is marconi a queue implementation vs a provisioning API?

2014-03-19 Thread Fox, Kevin M
Can someone please give more detail into why MongoDB being AGPL is a problem? The drivers that Marconi uses are Apache2 licensed, MongoDB is separated by the network stack and MongoDB is not exposed to the Marconi users so I don't think the 'A' part of the GPL really kicks in at all since the

Re: [openstack-dev] [Marconi] Why is marconi a queue implementation vs a provisioning API?

2014-03-19 Thread Fox, Kevin M
: [openstack-dev] [Marconi] Why is marconi a queue implementation vs a provisioning API? On 03/19/2014 02:24 PM, Fox, Kevin M wrote: Can someone please give more detail into why MongoDB being AGPL is a problem? The drivers that Marconi uses are Apache2 licensed, MongoDB is separated by the network

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron][LBaaS] Load balancing use cases. Data from Operators needed.

2014-04-01 Thread Fox, Kevin M
I added our priorities. I hope its formatted well enough. I just took a stab in the dark. Thanks, Kevin From: Eugene Nikanorov [enikano...@mirantis.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2014 3:02 AM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List Subject: [openstack-dev]

Re: [openstack-dev] Keystone Apache2 Installation Question

2013-10-14 Thread Fox, Kevin M
-dev@lists.openstack.org Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] Keystone Apache2 Installation Question On 10/09/2013 08:43 PM, Fox, Kevin M wrote: Thanks for the docs. It looks like I got through all of that already, its the authentication module part that is throwing me. I managed to manually get a token

Re: [openstack-dev] Keystone Apache2 Installation Question

2013-10-15 Thread Fox, Kevin M
From: Simo Sorce [s...@redhat.com] Sent: Monday, October 14, 2013 6:58 PM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] Keystone Apache2 Installation Question On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 14:31 -0700, Fox, Kevin M wrote: Hi Adam, I was trying to get both kerberos

Re: [openstack-dev] [keystone] Support for external authentication (i.e. REMOTE_USER) in Havana

2013-10-29 Thread Fox, Kevin M
Has the case been considered where REMOTE_USER is used with authentication mechanisms where the username is an email address? It will have to keep the @domain part because that's the only thing that makes it unique. Thanks, Kevin From: Álvaro López

Re: [openstack-dev] [Heat] Network topologies

2013-10-29 Thread Fox, Kevin M
I'm not sure how you could avoid dependencies in any network configuration worth dumping and restoring. One case that I'd like to use the functionality you list is the following: I have an external network, and I create a private network per tenant and attach it via a router to the public

Re: [openstack-dev] [Heat] rough draft of Heat autoscaling API

2013-11-21 Thread Fox, Kevin M
There is a high priority approved blueprint for a Neutron PoolMember: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/heat/+spec/loadballancer-pool-members Thanks, Kevin From: Christopher Armstrong [chris.armstr...@rackspace.com] Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2013 9:44 AM

Re: [openstack-dev] [heat][horizon]Heat UI related requirements roadmap

2013-11-25 Thread Fox, Kevin M
I agree that maybe an external file might be better suited to extra metadata. I've found it rare that you ever use just one template per stack. Usually it is a set of nested templates. This would allow for advanced ui features like an icon for the stack. On the other hand, there is the

Re: [openstack-dev] [heat][horizon]Heat UI related requirements roadmap

2013-11-27 Thread Fox, Kevin M
This use case is sort of a providence case. Where did the stack come from so I can find out more about it. You could put a git commit field in the template itself but then it would be hard to keep updated. How about the following: Extend heat to support setting a scmcommit metadata item on

Re: [openstack-dev] [heat][horizon]Heat UI related requirements roadmap

2013-11-27 Thread Fox, Kevin M
Hmm... Yeah. when you tell heat client the url to a template file, you could set a flag telling the heat client it is in a git repo. It could then automatically look for repo information and set a stack metadata item pointing back to it. If you didn't care about taking a performance hit, heat

[openstack-dev] [Nova][TripleO] Nested resources

2013-12-02 Thread Fox, Kevin M
Hi all, I just want to run a crazy idea up the flag pole. TripleO has the concept of an under and over cloud. In starting to experiment with Docker, I see a pattern start to emerge. * As a User, I may want to allocate a BareMetal node so that it is entirely mine. I may want to run multiple

Re: [openstack-dev] [openstack-tc] Incubation Request for Barbican

2013-12-02 Thread Fox, Kevin M
I've been anxious to try out Barbican, but haven't had quite enough time to try it yet. But finding out it won't work with Qpid makes it unworkable for us at the moment. I think a large swath of the OpenStack community won't be able to use it in this form too. Thanks, Kevin

Re: [openstack-dev] [heat] Heater Proposal

2013-12-04 Thread Fox, Kevin M
What is the difference between Heater, Cloudify (http://appcatalog.cloudifysource.org/#/?tumblr) and Murano (https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Murano) If Heater is intended to be a subset of Cloudify/Murano that they both would use, it might be good to start off like the Solum folks are?

Re: [openstack-dev] [heat] [glance] Heater Proposal

2013-12-05 Thread Fox, Kevin M
My 2 cents. Glance currently deals with single file images. A user is going to want the heat repo to operate at a stack level. IE, I want to launch stack foo. For all but the most trivial cases, a stack is made up of more then one template. These templates should be versioned as set (stack),

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][TripleO] Nested resources

2013-12-05 Thread Fox, Kevin M
From: Mark McLoughlin [mar...@redhat.com] Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 1:53 PM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][TripleO] Nested resources Hi Kevin, On Mon, 2013-12-02 at 12:39 -0800, Fox, Kevin M wrote: Hi all, I just

Re: [openstack-dev] Unified Guest Agent proposal

2013-12-06 Thread Fox, Kevin M
Another option is this: https://github.com/cloudbase/cloudbase-init It is python based on windows rather then .NET. Thanks, Kevin From: Sandy Walsh [sandy.wa...@rackspace.com] Sent: Friday, December 06, 2013 12:12 PM To: openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron][LBaaS] Load balancing use cases and web ui screen captures

2014-04-09 Thread Fox, Kevin M
I'm not seeing anything here about non http(s) related Load balancing. We're interested in load balancing ssh, ftp, and other services too. Thanks, Kevin From: Samuel Bercovici [samu...@radware.com] Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2014 5:51 AM To: OpenStack Development

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon][heat] Unusable error messages in dashboard for Orchestration

2014-04-11 Thread Fox, Kevin M
I've seen unusable error messages out of heat as well. I've been telling users (our ops guys) to look at the heat-engine logs when it happens and usually its fairly apparent what is wrong with their templates. In the future, Should I report each of these I see as a new bug or add each to the

Re: [openstack-dev] [Ironic][Agent]

2014-04-11 Thread Fox, Kevin M
Maybe an Intel AMT driver too: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/intel-active-management-technology.html You could use desktop class machines with ironic then. Kevin From: Devananda van der Veen [devananda@gmail.com] Sent:

Re: [openstack-dev] [trove] Blueprint Review: Allow volume snapshot as another way for data backuping

2014-04-14 Thread Fox, Kevin M
I've been independently been looking at something similar. Some things of interest: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/quiesced-image-snapshots-with-qemu-guest-agent Particularly interesting to trove may be this example hook:

Re: [openstack-dev] [heat] computed package names?

2014-04-16 Thread Fox, Kevin M
Different distro's move the binaries and services too. ubuntu/debian does: /usr/sbin/apache2, not httpd. The service is also named apache2, not httpd. So, I think distro specific sets of packages are somewhat unavoidable. Now, this use case might be a good case for supporting:

Re: [openstack-dev] Monitoring as a Service

2014-05-02 Thread Fox, Kevin M
+1 And since most of the monitoring systems have standardized on supporting Nagios plug ins, it would be great if it supported them too. Thanks, Kevin From: Alexandre Viau [alexandre.v...@savoirfairelinux.com] Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2014 2:17 PM To:

[openstack-dev] Local Neutron Port

2014-05-16 Thread Fox, Kevin M
I have a cloud that is using vxlan's over infiniband. Its working great. Now, I have a second system, a Lustre cluster that I would like to make available to a tenant in the cloud. I can't bridge into this network since its IB. Routing onto it is also proving to be tricky... One idea I had was

Re: [openstack-dev] [Zaqar] The horse is dead. Long live the horse.

2014-09-24 Thread Fox, Kevin M
+1 From: Gordon Sim [g...@redhat.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 10:26 AM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Zaqar] The horse is dead. Long live the horse. On 09/24/2014 06:07 PM, Clint

Re: [openstack-dev] [all][tripleo] New Project - Kolla: Deploy and Manage OpenStack using Kubernetes and Docker

2014-09-25 Thread Fox, Kevin M
Doesn't nova with a docker driver and heat autoscaling handle case 2 and 3 for control jobs? Has anyone tried yet? Thanks, Kevin From: Angus Lees [g...@inodes.org] Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 6:33 PM To: openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org Subject:

Re: [openstack-dev] [all][tripleo] New Project - Kolla: Deploy and Manage OpenStack using Kubernetes and Docker

2014-09-25 Thread Fox, Kevin M
Then you still need all the kubernetes api/daemons for the master and slaves. If you ignore the complexity this adds, then it seems simpler then just using openstack for it. but really, it still is an under/overcloud kind of setup, your just using kubernetes for the undercloud, and openstack

Re: [openstack-dev] [all][tripleo] New Project - Kolla: Deploy and Manage OpenStack using Kubernetes and Docker

2014-09-25 Thread Fox, Kevin M
Why can't you manage baremetal and containers from a single host with nova/neutron? Is this a current missing feature, or has the development teams said they will never implement it? Thanks, Kevin From: Clint Byrum [cl...@fewbar.com] Sent: Wednesday,

Re: [openstack-dev] [all][tripleo] New Project - Kolla: Deploy and Manage OpenStack using Kubernetes and Docker

2014-09-25 Thread Fox, Kevin M
Ah. So the goal of project Kolla then is to deploy OpenStack via Docker using whatever means that works, not, to deploy OpenStack using Docker+Kubernetes, where the first stab at an implementation is using Kubernetes. That seems like a much more reasonable goal to me. Thanks, Kevin

Re: [openstack-dev] [all][tripleo] New Project - Kolla: Deploy and Manage OpenStack using Kubernetes and Docker

2014-09-25 Thread Fox, Kevin M
-Original Message- From: Clint Byrum [mailto:cl...@fewbar.com] Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2014 9:35 AM To: openstack-dev Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [all][tripleo] New Project - Kolla: Deploy and Manage OpenStack using Kubernetes and Docker First, Kevin, please try to figure

Re: [openstack-dev] [all][tripleo] New Project - Kolla: Deploy and Manage OpenStack using Kubernetes and Docker

2014-09-25 Thread Fox, Kevin M
-Original Message- From: Clint Byrum [mailto:cl...@fewbar.com] Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2014 9:44 AM To: openstack-dev Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [all][tripleo] New Project - Kolla: Deploy and Manage OpenStack using Kubernetes and Docker Excerpts from Fox, Kevin M's

Re: [openstack-dev] [all][tripleo] New Project - Kolla: Deploy and Manage OpenStack using Kubernetes and Docker

2014-09-26 Thread Fox, Kevin M
-Original Message- From: Angus Lees [mailto:gusl...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Angus Lees Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2014 9:01 PM To: openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org Cc: Fox, Kevin M Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [all][tripleo] New Project - Kolla: Deploy and Manage OpenStack using

Re: [openstack-dev] [kolla] Kolla Blueprints

2014-10-01 Thread Fox, Kevin M
Has anyone figured out a way of having a floating ip like feature with docker so that you can have rabbitmq, mysql, or ceph mon's at fixed ip's and be able to migrate them around from physical host to physical host and still have them at fixed locations that you can easily put in static config

Re: [openstack-dev] [kolla] on Dockerfile patterns

2014-10-14 Thread Fox, Kevin M
Absolutely this needs splitting out. I ran into an issue a few years ago with this antipattern with the mythtv folks. The myth client on my laptop got upgraded and it was overly helpful in that it connected directly to the database and upgraded the schema for me, breaking the server, and all

Re: [openstack-dev] [kolla] on Dockerfile patterns

2014-10-14 Thread Fox, Kevin M
Same thing works with cloud init too... I've been waiting on systemd working inside a container for a while. it seems to work now. The idea being its hard to write a shell script to get everything up and running with all the interactions that may need to happen. The init system's already

Re: [openstack-dev] [kolla] on Dockerfile patterns

2014-10-14 Thread Fox, Kevin M
Ok, why are you so down on running systemd in a container? Pacemaker works, but its kind of a pain to setup compared just yum installing a few packages and setting init to systemd. There are some benefits for sure, but if you have to force all the docker components onto the same physical

Re: [openstack-dev] [kolla] on Dockerfile patterns

2014-10-14 Thread Fox, Kevin M
I'm not arguing that everything should be managed by one systemd, I'm just saying, for certain types of containers, a single docker container with systemd in it might be preferable to trying to slice it unnaturally into several containers. Systemd has invested a lot of time/effort to be able

Re: [openstack-dev] [kolla] on Dockerfile patterns

2014-10-17 Thread Fox, Kevin M
docker exec would be awesome. So... whats redhat's stance on docker upgrades here? I'm running centos7, and dockers topped out at docker-0.11.1-22.el7.centos.x86_64. (though redhat package versions don't always reflect the upstream version) I tried running docker 1.2 binary from docker.io but

Re: [openstack-dev] Combination of Heat ResourceGroup(index) with Fn::Select doesnt work ?

2014-10-21 Thread Fox, Kevin M
use a OS::Neutron::PoolMember instead. Then each member template can add itself to the pool. From: Magesh GV [magesh...@oneconvergence.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 12:07 AM To: openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org Subject: [openstack-dev] Combination of Heat

Re: [openstack-dev] [Ironic] [Triple-O] Openstack Onboarding

2014-10-21 Thread Fox, Kevin M
Images that are premade and ready to go would be a huge step in the right direction. You currently are expected to make them all yourself, which involves a lot of work/knowledge. Its great to be able to build them, but right out of the gate, they are too much work for a new user. Thanks,

Re: [openstack-dev] [Heat] Combination of Heat ResourceGroup(index) with Fn::Select doesnt work ?

2014-10-21 Thread Fox, Kevin M
guess ResourceGroup is the only iterative construct in Heat. Is the use case supported today? I think this is more than a simple usage question, hence posting it here. Thank you. Regards Subra On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Fox, Kevin M kevin@pnnl.govmailto:kevin@pnnl.gov wrote: use

Re: [openstack-dev] [tuskar][tripleo] Tuskar/TripleO on Devstack

2014-10-28 Thread Fox, Kevin M
From: Clint Byrum [cl...@fewbar.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2014 11:34 AM To: openstack-dev Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [tuskar][tripleo] Tuskar/TripleO on Devstack *SNIP* I think we should actually just rip the git repos out of the images in

Re: [openstack-dev] [Heat] New function: first_nonnull

2014-11-05 Thread Fox, Kevin M
That would be very useful. It would eliminate a few more places where I've needed the aws if function. It would be good to keep the get_ prefix for consistency. Id vote for seperate function. Its cleaner. Thanks, Kevin From: Lee, Alexis Sent: Wednesday,

Re: [openstack-dev] [Heat] New function: first_nonnull

2014-11-06 Thread Fox, Kevin M
Except it penalizes us bad spellers. ;) Kevin From: Clint Byrum Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2014 11:26:43 PM To: openstack-dev Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Heat] New function: first_nonnull Excerpts from Lee, Alexis's message of 2014-11-05 15:46:43 +0100:

Re: [openstack-dev] [Horizon] the future of angularjs development in Horizon

2014-11-19 Thread Fox, Kevin M
Perhaps they are there to support older browsers? Thanks, Kevin From: Matthias Runge [mru...@redhat.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 12:27 AM To: openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Horizon] the future of angularjs

Re: [openstack-dev] [Fuel] Power management in Cobbler

2014-11-19 Thread Fox, Kevin M
Would net booting a minimal discovery image work? You usually can dump ipmi network information from the host. Thanks, Kevin From: Matthew Mosesohn [mmoses...@mirantis.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 7:46 AM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List

Re: [openstack-dev] [Fuel] Power management in Cobbler

2014-11-19 Thread Fox, Kevin M
...@mirantis.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 9:28 AM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Cc: Bogdan Dobrelya Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Fuel] Power management in Cobbler On 19 Nov 2014, at 17:56, Fox, Kevin M kevin@pnnl.gov wrote: Would net booting

Re: [openstack-dev] [Ironic] maintaining backwards compatibility within a cycle

2014-11-20 Thread Fox, Kevin M
I think it depends totally on if you want trunk to be a distribution mechanism or not. If you encourage people to 'just use trunk' for deployment, then you better not break out of tree drivers on people. If you have a stable release branch, that you tell people to use, there is plenty of

Re: [openstack-dev] [Fuel] fuel master monitoring

2014-11-21 Thread Fox, Kevin M
How about this? https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Monasca Kevin From: Dmitriy Shulyak Sent: Friday, November 21, 2014 12:57:45 AM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Fuel] fuel master monitoring I have

Re: [openstack-dev] [Horizon] the future of angularjs development in Horizon

2014-11-21 Thread Fox, Kevin M
Simply having a git repository does not imply that its source. In fact, if its considered compiled (minified), I'm thinking the debian rules would prevent sourcing from it? Thanks, Kevin From: Donald Stufft [don...@stufft.io] Sent: Friday, November 21,

Re: [openstack-dev] [Fuel] fuel master monitoring

2014-11-24 Thread Fox, Kevin M
One of the selling points of tripleo is to reuse as much as possible from the cloud, to make it easier to deploy. While monasca may be more complicated, if it ends up being a component everyone learns, then its not as bad as needing to learn two different monitoring technologies. You could say

Re: [openstack-dev] [Fuel] fuel master monitoring

2014-11-26 Thread Fox, Kevin M
:36 PM, Fox, Kevin M kevin@pnnl.govmailto:kevin@pnnl.gov wrote: One of the selling points of tripleo is to reuse as much as possible from the cloud, to make it easier to deploy. While monasca may be more complicated, if it ends up being a component everyone learns, then its not as bad

Re: [openstack-dev] [Fuel][Nailgun] Web framework

2014-12-03 Thread Fox, Kevin M
+1. Well said. I second the applauding of the Fuel's development team's for their changing of their communications patterns (that's never easy) and also the desire for closer integration with the rest of the OpenStack community. From: Jay Pipes

Re: [openstack-dev] [Fuel][Nailgun] Web framework

2014-12-03 Thread Fox, Kevin M
Choosing the right instrument for the job in an open source community involves choosing technologies that the community is familiar/comfortable with as well, as it will allow you access to a greater pool of developers. With that in mind then, I'd add: Pro Pecan, blessed by the OpenStack

Re: [openstack-dev] [Ironic] Fuel agent proposal

2014-12-09 Thread Fox, Kevin M
We've been interested in Ironic as a replacement for Cobbler for some of our systems and have been kicking the tires a bit recently. While initially I thought this thread was probably another Fuel not playing well with the community kind of thing, I'm not thinking that any more. Its deeper

Re: [openstack-dev] [Ironic] Some questions about Ironic service

2014-12-11 Thread Fox, Kevin M
. No time frame on any of it. Thanks, Kevin From: xianchaobo Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2014 1:07:54 AM To: openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org Cc: Luohao (brian) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Ironic] Some questions about Ironic service Hi,Fox Kevin M Thanks

Re: [openstack-dev] [Heat][Keystone] Native keystone resources in Heat

2015-01-30 Thread Fox, Kevin M
I was asking earlier this week about keystone resources on the irc channel... We're thinking about having a tenant per user on one of our clouds. We're using neutron. So setting this up involves: * Creating a User * Creating a Tenant * Assigning Roles * Creating the Tenants default Private

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon][keystone]

2015-02-06 Thread Fox, Kevin M
But selecting from a list is harder then from a grid. A grid would give you ample room for icons, which also make finding what your looking for easier. Having a bit more space makes selecting the thing you want with a mouse(or finger on a tablet) easier. To make it not visually overloaded, you

[openstack-dev] Wrong Status at the Dashboard - Juno Horizon

2015-01-22 Thread Fox, Kevin M
There was a thread named Wrong Status at the Dashboard - IceHouse Horizon mid last year. Thread archived here: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/openstack/dev/38332 I seem to have hit the same issue using Juno. I had some bad passwords on a hypervisor while I was figuring out the deploy

Re: [openstack-dev] [Ironic] RAID interface - backing disk hints

2015-01-22 Thread Fox, Kevin M
For reference, most of our kickstart scripts for storage bricks go by size. The little disks are system disks to be assembled into a software raid. The big ones are raid arrays to be preserved. Kickstart's ability to let you run a shell script on the host to build the partitioning instructions

Re: [openstack-dev] [cinder] K3 Feature Freeze Exception request for bp/nfs-backup

2015-03-11 Thread Fox, Kevin M
Also, can https://review.openstack.org/#/c/163647https://review.openstack.org/#/c/163647/2 be considered. all it does is move code from the accepted nfs.py to posix.py as described in the approved spec. This enables all posix complient file systems to be used, such as lustre instead of just

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Neutron] Status of the nova-network to Neutron migration work

2015-03-28 Thread Fox, Kevin M
It sounds like you want to be able to allocate and manage floating ips out of a neutron subnet and attach them to vms in that same subnet? No router needed? Sounds useful. Would probably need different quotas. Since they arent public floating ips. Maybe floating ip quotas should be seperated

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Neutron] Status of the nova-network to Neutron migration work

2015-03-27 Thread Fox, Kevin M
I think the main disconnect comes from this Is NaaS a critical feature of the cloud, or not? nova-network asserts no. The neutron team asserts yes, and neutron is being developed with that in mind currently. This is a critical assertion that should be discussed. With my app developer hat

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Neutron] Status of the nova-network to Neutron migration work

2015-03-27 Thread Fox, Kevin M
The floating ip only on external netwoks thing has always been a little odd to me... Floating ip's are very important to ensure a user can switch out one instance with another and keep 'state' consistent (the other piece being cinder volumes). But why can't you do this on a provider network?

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Neutron] Status of the nova-network to Neutron migration work

2015-03-27 Thread Fox, Kevin M
No, no. Most OpenStack deployments are neutron based with ovs because its the default these days. There are all sorts of warnings to folks for years saying if you start with nova-network, there will be pain for you later. Hopefully, that has scared away most new folks from doing it. Most of

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO][Heat] Overcloud software updates and ResourceGroups

2015-04-02 Thread Fox, Kevin M
I'm not sure how to feel about this... Its clever... It kind of feels like your really trying to be able to register 'actions' in heat so that heat users can poke the vm's to do something... For example perform a chef run. While using stack updates listed below could be made to work, is that

Re: [openstack-dev] Problem about Juno Keystone Identity V3

2015-04-03 Thread Fox, Kevin M
We've run into issues with nova+neutron and keystone v3 with Juno. Specifically this one: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1424462 But there may be others that I don't know about. Thanks, Kevin From: Rich Megginson [rmegg...@redhat.com] Sent: Friday, April

Re: [openstack-dev] [Zaqar] Call for adoption (or exclusion?)

2015-04-20 Thread Fox, Kevin M
...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 20, 2015 1:39 PM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Zaqar] Call for adoption (or exclusion?) On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Fox, Kevin M kevin@pnnl.govmailto:kevin@pnnl.gov wrote: Another parallel

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