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Continuously Delivering OpenStack using OpenStack-Salt

@tcpcloud

OpenStack Summit Austin 2016

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Presenters

Ales Komarek for

tcp cloud

  • Private Cloud Builders
  • openstack-salt PTL

Lachlan Evenson for

Lithium

  • Public/Private Cloud Users
  • openstack-salt contributor

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Presentation Agenda

  • Config. management Saltstack
  • openstack-salt project
  • Operations demonstration
  • New integration samples

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The need for configuration management

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Complex topology management

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Management of multiple processes

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Real Infrastructure as a Code

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Everything is model-driven ...

  • Service configuration
  • Monitoring and metering
  • System documentation
  • Firewall rules

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The OpenStack distribution

  • tcp cloud Mk.20
  • Best practices for deployment
  • Reference architecture
  • Flexible service composition

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The openstack-salt project

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Project history

  • Project started 11/2015
  • Growing community and contributors
  • Packages on Launchpad PPA
  • Doc: http://openstack-salt.tcpcloud.eu/

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Actual service ecosystem

  • Infrastructure services
  • Supplemental services
  • OpenStack services
  • Monitoring services
  • Integration services

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http://openstack-salt.tcpcloud.eu/develop/extending-ecosystem.html

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Testbed deployments

  • Local Vagrant deployments
  • Openstack Heat deployments
  • Multiple scenarios

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New service integration process

  • Gerrit workflow
  • Package management
  • Testing framework

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Current status

  • Total of about 100 services
  • Core OpenStack services covered

Juno to Liberty

  • Complex integration testing

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Future plans

  • Finish Mitaka services
  • Full system orchestration

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Let’s see it in action

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Integration of SolidFire storage backend

Model configuration

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cinder:

volume:

enabled: true

backend:

solidfire:

type_name: normal-storage

engine: solidfire

san_ip: 10.10.10.10

san_login: user

san_password: password

clustername: cluster1

sf_emulate_512: false

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Configuration file example

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[{{ backend_name }}]

volume_backend_name={{ backend_name }}

san_ip={{ backend.san_ip }}

san_login={{ backend.san_login }}

san_password={{ backend.san_password }}

sf_emulate_512={{ backend.sf_emulate_512 }}

volume_driver=cinder.volume.drivers.

solidfire.SolidFireDriver

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Let’s start contributing

  • Join the Openstack-salt community
    • #openstack-salt @ freenode
  • Contributor documentation
  • I’ll be here till the end of week to help you get started

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Conclusion

Ales Komarek

ales.komarek@tcpcloud.eu

@ales_komarek

Lachlan Evenson

lachlan.evenson@lithium.com

@LachlanEvenson

    • Contribute new and fixes to OpenStack formulas
    • Contribute new Cinder/Nova/Neutron backends
    • Test the deployments in our dedicated virtual labs

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@tcpcloud

OpenStack Summit Austin 2016