[Rdo-list] Packstack and rdo-manager, looking forward.

[Adam Young]

On 08/14/2015 09:07 PM, Dave Neary wrote:
> Hi Adam,
>
> Revising this thread with my own reasons...
>
> On 08/05/2015 03:33 PM, Adam Young wrote:
>> RDO Manager does a lot more than packstack.  Too much, for many use
>> cases, which is why we have people continuing to use packstack. Where do
>> people use packstack?
>>
>> 1.  Demos
>> 2.  Development Work
>> 3.  CI
>
> Installing OpenStack on low-end hardware (1 NIC, no IPMI) 

I'm guessing IPMI  is a requirement of the Ironic driver.

> or in VMs with nested virt.

This would work with the overcloud approach.


> Personally, I have some NUCs for a personal OpenStack cluster. I also 
> have access to an internal OpenStack cloud and I want to test ODL for 
> Neutron on that.

What it seem like we want is to get the capabilities of the Undercloud 
installable on a single Fedora box, and then be able to install the 
Overcloud on top of that.  An "undercloud light" based on libvirt?



>
> Ultra simple deployment architecture (no HA, one controller, N compute 
> nodes, or all-in-one on a home server).
>
> Personally, I'm OK manually powering on a host (when prompted) to PXE 
> boot an undercloud host. I don't know if it's even possible, but if we 
> could detect that hosts have only one NIC, using the same NIC for 
> management, data and provisioning, that would be awesome.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave.
>