[Rdo-list] Packstack Icehouse changes

[Shake Chen]

remove the feature the packstack have been own is not good idea, and would
affect many user.


On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 8:55 PM, Stefan Apostoaie <
stefan.apostoaie at softvision.ro> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I was working on integrating a neutron plugin in Packstack and
> successfully done so for the Packstack havana.
> I then tried porting the changes into Packstack for icehouse and noticed
> some changes that limit my options:
> 1. We need to run the metadata agents on all the compute nodes so we
> previously used the CONFIG_NEUTRON_METADATA_HOSTS option to specify this.
> In the latest version this was deprecated and replaced by
> CONFIG_NETWORK_HOSTS so the metadata agent will only be installed on the
> network node.
> 2. The CONFIG_CONTROLLER_HOST replaces several other options including
> CONFIG_HORIZON_HOST. In our setup we need to run horizon on the public
> network and the other services on the private network. The missing
> CONFIG_HORIZON_HOST means that the dashboard will only be available on our
> private network and we need to manually update the horizon and httpd config
> files.
> 3. The CONFIG_NOVA_VNCPROXY_HOST was also replaced by
> CONFIG_CONTROLLER_HOST so the VM console doesn't work outside our private
> network.
> 4. An issue that I've encountered when running packstack was a mysql
> puppet error "service mysqld start failed: my_default_config doesn't take
> the --mysqld parameter". The mysqld service started when I tried from the
> command line and after that Packstack worked. Not sure it's related to
> Packstack or some mysql server issue on our machines.
> The servers we use have CentOS 6.5 installed.
>
> I know that having only three types of hosts (CONTROLLER, NETWORK, and
> COMPUTE) simplifies things when installing basic Openstack configurations
> (with the ml2, linux bridge, or ovs plugin), but for us it becomes a lot
> more complicated to make Packstack do what we need. I believe that these
> changes affect Packstacks' flexibility. Now we cannot install horizon,
> cinder, swift, or keystone on a different host because they are tied to the
> CONFIG_CONTROLLER_HOST option.
>
> Is there a way to override the CONFIG_CONTROLLER_HOST,
> CONFIG_NETWORK_HOSTS, and CONFIG_COMPUTE_HOSTS?
> Can packstack havana be used to install Openstack icehouse by configuring
> yum to use the icehouse rdo repository?
>
> Regards,
> Stefan A
>
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Shake Chen
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