https://ronaldbradford.com/categories/openstack/ Recent content in OpenStack on Enterprise Data Architect | Principal Data Strategist | MySQL Subject Matter Expert | Author | Speaker Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Tue, 14 Jun 2016 18:18:18 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/utilizing-openstack-trove-dbaas-for-deployment-management-2016-06-14/ Tue, 14 Jun 2016 18:18:18 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/utilizing-openstack-trove-dbaas-for-deployment-management-2016-06-14/ Trove is used for self service provisioning and lifecycle management for relational and non-relational databases in an OpenStack cloud. Trove provides a RESTful API interface that is same regardless of the type of database. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/understanding-the-oslo-libraries-2016-05-24/ Tue, 24 May 2016 13:41:39 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/understanding-the-oslo-libraries-2016-05-24/ Underpinning all of the OpenStack projects including Nova, Cinder, Keystone, Glance, Horizon, Heat, Trove, Murano and others is a set of core common libraries that provide a consistent, highly tested and compatible feature set. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/are-you-running-kvm-or-qemu-launched-instances-2016-05-19/ Thu, 19 May 2016 20:21:28 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/are-you-running-kvm-or-qemu-launched-instances-2016-05-19/ A recent operators mailing list thread asked this question regarding the OpenStack user survey results of April 2016 (See page 39). As I verified my own local multi-node devstack dedicated H/W environment with varying commands, I initially came across the following error (which later was found to be misleading). https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/using-your-devstack-cloud-2016-04-05/ Tue, 05 Apr 2016 18:06:35 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/using-your-devstack-cloud-2016-04-05/ You have setup and installed devstack . Now what! The Horizon UI will allow you to administer your running cloud from a web interface. We are not going to discuss the web UI in this post. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/downloading-and-installing-devstack-2016-04-02/ Sat, 02 Apr 2016 14:51:56 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/downloading-and-installing-devstack-2016-04-02/ The following instructions assume you have a running Linux virtual machine that can support the installation of devstack to demonstrate a simple working OpenStack cloud. For more information about the preparation needed for this step, see these pre-requisite instructions: https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/get-your-oslo-swag-in-austin-2016-03-31/ Thu, 31 Mar 2016 20:22:33 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/get-your-oslo-swag-in-austin-2016-03-31/ Hot of the press are our Oslo stickers for the Austin event. Be sure to track down an Oslo core, answer the magic question and add this to your conference swag. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/retiring-an-openstack-project-2016-03-28/ Mon, 28 Mar 2016 21:00:43 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/retiring-an-openstack-project-2016-03-28/ As part of migrating Oslo Incubator code to graduated libraries I have come across several inactive OpenStack projects. (An inactivate project does not mean the project should be retired or removed). https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/oracle-openstack-leveraging-mysql-cluster-and-docker-2015-11-11/ Wed, 11 Nov 2015 23:04:25 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/oracle-openstack-leveraging-mysql-cluster-and-docker-2015-11-11/ At Oracle Openworld this year, Oracle OpenStack Release 2 was announced. This Kilo based distribution included some new deployment features not see in other OpenStack distros including the use of Kolla , Docker and MySQL Cluster . https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/deploying-ubuntu-openstack-kilo-2015-06-06/ Sat, 06 Jun 2015 17:52:20 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/deploying-ubuntu-openstack-kilo-2015-06-06/ My previous Ubuntu OpenStack setup has been using the Juno release. I received some installation problems for Kilo using the stable repo and so I switched to using the experimental repo. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/writing-and-testing-unit-tests-in-openstack-2015-06-05/ Fri, 05 Jun 2015 15:46:03 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/writing-and-testing-unit-tests-in-openstack-2015-06-05/ The following outlines an approach of identifying and improving unit tests in an OpenStack project. Obtain the source code You can obtain a copy of current source code for an OpenStack project at http://git. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/contributing-to-openstack-2015-06-03/ Wed, 03 Jun 2015 20:48:52 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/contributing-to-openstack-2015-06-03/ Following my first OpenStack Summit in Vancouver 4/2015 it was time to become involved with contributing to OpenStack. I have lurked around the mailing lists and several IRC channels for a few weeks and familiarized myself with OpenStack in varying forms including devstack , the free hosted Mirantis Express and the VM version, Ubuntu OpenStack , and even building my own 3 physical server cloud from second hand hardware purchased on eBay. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/tracking-the-ubuntu-openstack-installation-process-2015-06-02/ Tue, 02 Jun 2015 16:33:40 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/tracking-the-ubuntu-openstack-installation-process-2015-06-02/ Following on from Installing Ubuntu OpenStack the following steps help you navigate around the single server installation, monitoring and debugging the installation process. Configuration The initial execution of the installer will create a default config. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/installing-ubuntu-openstack-2015-06-01/ Mon, 01 Jun 2015 15:53:21 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/installing-ubuntu-openstack-2015-06-01/ The The Canonical Distribution of Ubuntu OpenStack provides a simple installer to run an OpenStack cloud. You can deploy a simple single machine setup with fully containerized services (11 in total), or a multi server installation leveraging MAAS – Metal as a Service and Landscape Autopilot. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-benefit-of-attending-the-openstack-summit-2015-05-25/ Mon, 25 May 2015 13:47:08 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-benefit-of-attending-the-openstack-summit-2015-05-25/ I attended my first OpenStack Summit in Vancouver 4/2015 . While I have used various cloud computing technologies for eight years and presented cloud content at events such as Cloud Expo, this was my first involvement with OpenStack. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/learning-the-openstackclient-osc-2015-05-13/ Wed, 13 May 2015 17:40:50 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/learning-the-openstackclient-osc-2015-05-13/ As a way to navigate the extent of the CLI options for nova, keystone, glance and also openstack commands I came up with an educational approach. While still early development the goal is to provide a Beginner/Intermediate/Expert views exposing various commands and options to help the user learn in a controlled way. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/disabling-the-temporary-authorization-token-in-devstack-keystone-2015-05-05/ Tue, 05 May 2015 16:52:29 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/disabling-the-temporary-authorization-token-in-devstack-keystone-2015-05-05/ While building my own OpenStack cloud on physical servers I realized that Keystone uses a temporary authorization token in the Create the service entity and API endpoint and Create projects, users, and roles steps. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/understanding-the-different-openstack-tox-configs-2015-04-30/ Thu, 30 Apr 2015 20:22:16 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/understanding-the-different-openstack-tox-configs-2015-04-30/ Openstack projects use tox to manage virtual environments and run unit tests which I talked about here . In this example I am using the oslo.config repo to look at the various tox configs in openstack use. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/running-openstack-tests-with-tox-2015-04-28/ Tue, 28 Apr 2015 17:13:26 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/running-openstack-tests-with-tox-2015-04-28/ Recently the OSC (python-openstackclient ) project removed run_tests.sh #177066 and tools/install_venv.py scripts #177086 . As I was very new to OpenStack development practices this threw me because of reading several OpenStack documentation pages including Getting the code that specifically mentions in Hacking on your laptop and running unit tests an example Setting Up a Developer Environment , and consulting with a friend that is a ATC this is the way I learned to setup virtual environments and running tests . https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/inconsistent-messaging-for-openstackclient-2015-04-20/ Mon, 20 Apr 2015 19:54:35 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/inconsistent-messaging-for-openstackclient-2015-04-20/ As I mentioned earlier in Moving to OpenStackClient CLI I came across several differences in reconciling the legacy CLI tools. I have also come across very inconsistent messaging. Here is a simple example. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/moving-to-openstackclient-cli-2015-04-20/ Mon, 20 Apr 2015 19:21:20 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/moving-to-openstackclient-cli-2015-04-20/ In working with the keynote CLI within the TripleO scripts I came across the following deprecation warning message. $ keystone token-get /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/keystoneclient/shell.py:65: DeprecationWarning: The keystone CLI is deprecated in favor of python-openstackclient. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/writing-re-runable-shell-script-2015-02-24/ Tue, 24 Feb 2015 04:44:59 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/writing-re-runable-shell-script-2015-02-24/ I recently started playing with [devstack][1] again (An all-in-on OpenStack developer setup). Last time was over 3 years ago because I remember a [pull request for a missing dependency][2] at the time.