[rhos-list] Running openshift on openstack

[Steven Dake]

On 01/16/2013 03:44 PM, Matt Hicks wrote:
> On 01/16/2013 05:28 PM, Steven Dake wrote:
>> On 01/16/2013 01:51 PM, Matt Hicks wrote:
>>> On 01/16/2013 08:42 AM, Perry Myers wrote:
>>>> On 01/16/2013 02:41 AM, anu.bhaskar.babu at accenture.com wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there any working documentation for installing and running 
>>>>> Openshift Origin on Redhat Openstack.
>>>> Matt, does your team have any docs around this?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Perry
>>> Looping in Krishna and Bill.  Do you guys have anything OpenStack 
>>> focused out there?
>>>
>>> -Matt
>>>
>> Matt,
>>
>> We have done a bit of work on making heat launch OpenShift on 
>> OpenStack.  See: http://wiki.openstack.org/Heat/Running-openshift
>>
>> This can only improve with time, including autoscaling support and 
>> integration with Moniker (DNS as a service) as well as helping us 
>> understand networking points outlined elsewhere.
>>
>> Unfortunately we have difficulty keeping the integration working 
>> consistently because OpenShift is moving so quickly - especially the 
>> tooling around building RPMs.  We have gone through many different 
>> approaches to get OpenShift working on OpenStack (outlined at the 
>> wiki page above).  What would help the Heat team tremendously is a 
>> package repo for OpenShift built against the F18 toolchain which are 
>> tested, stable, and only change after having gone through some 
>> rudimentary QE (vs a per-commit rpm repo which is less then ideal). 
>> This would allow us to always deploy a known working OpenShift 
>> against a known working Fedora baseline.  I expect anyone else doing 
>> this work will have a similar requirement if they have spent similar 
>> engineering hours on this problem as the heat team has.  We have 
>> tried the repo packages in the past and they were built on two 
>> different Fedora versions, requiring two different major versions of 
>> ruby.    I understand the problems with putting OpenShift in Fedora 
>> (toolchain changes right before deadlines), and am hopeful we won't 
>> have to wait until F19 to make this integration point a reality.
>>
>> Regards
>> -steve
>>
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> We will absolutely get this for you.  We're working with Seth Vidal on 
> the coprs work to see if we can establish a better process of building 
> against Fedora.  Krishna has also been testing against F18 and we've 
> got a couple of systemd bugs to run down. I'll sync up with the guys 
> here and see if we can get you guys some dates. OpenShift and 
> OpenStack integration is a critical priority for us next year and we 
> really, really appreciate the work you guys have done to date.  If you 
> are interested, I also have some Amazon CloudFormations templates that 
> I used to deploy a multi-tier OpenShift Enterprise at Amazon 
> re:Invent.  Testing them out with Heat has been on my todo list 
> forever now but I haven't been able to get to it.  I'm happy to share 
> them if you think it might help with anything.
>

Great News!

We would be happy to have a look at your templates to help identify gaps 
in our implementation.  We are in our final push for grizzly milestone 3 
(which finishes Feb 21) so we may be a bit sporadic in responding until 
then.  Steven Hardy (added to cc) has been doing most of the OpenShift 
bringup so please CC him on templates you have available.

Regards
-steve
> -Matt