[Rdo-list] Deploying RDO using Foreman

[Kashyap Chamarthy]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 08:46:45PM +0100, Arash Kaffamanesh wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  I posted a question regarding "Deploying RDO using Foreman" to
> ask.openstack.org and thanks to Keshyap and Rich which engaged me to
> proceed further, I updated the thread here:
> 
> https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/12104/deploying-rdo-using-foreman/
> 
> The post might be too long, here some more information about the reason
> behind my question and some more questions:
> 
> I'm trying to learn Foreman for installing OpenStack and use it to deploy
> RDO on top of RDO to provide some kind of OpenStack training / webinars and
> later to run the whole thing on 6-8 bare metal machines and use it to
> deploy OpenShift and write a tutorial about the whole thing and post it on
> the RDO site, LinkedIn, etc.
> 
> About our BASE RDO environment:
> Our RDO based 3 node environment is thanks to the latest update very stable
> and very fast now and I've to thank all of you smart guys for doing such a
> great work!
> 
> Our environment uses VLAN and the Foreman RDO installation shall use GRE
> and Qemu (or LXC / Docker) to let us play with the whole thing and write a
> tutorial about the whole thing.
> 
> So my questions:
> Does the Foreman installation on top of a virtualized environment work at
> all? (I guess yes)

Yes, technically, it should work. Refer to my previous email on
this list[1] for some URLs on Foreman.

> Could a VLAN based BASE-Install be a problem to succeed with this scenario
> (to have GRE on top of VLAN)? (I guess no)

Only way to know with certainity - to try it.

> Has someone tried such a scenario before? (I guess yes)
> Could I use LXC / Docker instead Qemu?

There's active work on upstream for Docker support, so you ought to
experiment and carefully note down observations, filing bugs along the
way.

And, it depends on _what_ you want to do with the LXC/Docker setup. If
it's just to try it out, there's decent resources on the inter-webs.


> 
> Thanks in advance for any help / advice!
> Arash


  [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/rdo-list/2014-March/msg00037.html

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/kashyap