[rhos-list] Optimizing IT: Red Hat Virtual Event

[Perry Myers]

Hi Rodrique and Daniel,

On 12/05/2012 02:08 PM, Heron, Rodrique (CTR) WDC31 wrote:
> I missed the event.

It's actually just recorded presentations, and they are available for 90
days I believe.  So you may still be able to register for the event and
listen to the presentations for a while.

> I am using Foreman, and it would be nice to use Foreman to build images and push them to glance. 

Right, so today Foreman just takes images that already exist and what
you're looking for is a feature enhancement to Foreman that would
integrate with something like Image Factory or Oz to build new VM images
from source media and then push those images into Glance.  Do I have
that right?

> -
> Rodrique Heron
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhos-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhos-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Daniel Dumitriu
> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 1:54 PM
> To: Perry Myers
> Cc: rhos-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [rhos-list] Optimizing IT: Red Hat Virtual Event
> 
> This is just a repeat of the comment/question I left in "The Lounge" of the Event:

Apologies for not being in the lounge today to take the questions live.
 I had another commitment and couldn't attend.

> ==
> Thanks, Perry, for the OpenStack presentation.
> Inciting, to say the least.
> Question: At various points, you did mention "Heat" as an upstream
> project. Could you be more specific on the provisioning side of
> things ?

It's a service similar to Cloud Formations in Amazon AWS.  It provides
the ability to define a template that describes multiple VMs working in
concert.  So you would define a template with 1 or more VM definitions,
and then tell Heat to launch that template.  Heat then uses the
OpenStack Nova APIs to launch the VMs in the proper order, waiting for
things like dependencies in one VM before launching the 2nd.

I've included some of the Heat folks on this thread.  I'm sure they can
do better justice to your question than I could :)

> It would be interesting, for example, to see what could happen if
> "Foreman" would be used to "provision the Cloud". Especially for a
> "private hybrid cloud" that includes both VMs and hardware servers.

Foreman could definitely be used for both bare metal server provisioning
for OpenStack core services and Compute Nodes while also being used to
provision the VMs that will be in the cloud.  I thought that Ohad
(Foreman creator/maintainer) had done some integration work (or maybe it
was just planned) to better integrate Foreman w/ OpenStack from a guest
provisioning perspective (using Fog as an abstraction layer I think)

Ohad, any additional thoughts here?

Perry