[Rdo-list] GSoC Cloud in a Box

[Ivan Chavero]

Hello,

I was about to propose a Fedora RDO remix, it's nice to know that i'm not 
the only one with the idea.

The point here is to enhance the RDO experience so users can install a basic
OpenStack setup from the OS installation step instead of having to manually
setup repos, install packstack, configure and run it as it is recommended 
right now on the RDO QuickStart page [1] which IMHO does not feel right.
There's a Fedora remix for digital jounalists and there's none for RDO!! [2].

I've talked about this with the Packstack and Puppet installers team and 
the idea was well recieved so i'm more than happy to help on this effort.

The basic idea is:

- Integrate a lightweight installer like  Packstack into anaconda
  - Add Packstack options
    - Standard: All in one install, everything is setup automatically
    - Advanced: Allow the user to set Packstack options in the nice
                way that anaconda does.

- Integrate the RDO repo into the ISO 

This will need a lot of development if is decided to generate the remix
automatically wich each new OpenStack. Also it changes to Packstack might
be required since it's concieved to run in an already installed system and
it starts OpenStack services as dependencies while installing (most installers
will do this).

If you want to talk about this, i'm available in the #rdo channel with the nickname: imcsk8


Let me know if you want to get trhough with this because it's very important
effort that could help boost RDO popularity.






[1] https://www.rdoproject.org/Quickstart
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/List_of_Fedora_remixes

Cheers,
Ivan

----- Original Message -----
> From: "sad man" <asadxflow at gmail.com>
> To: "Tom Buskey" <tom at buskey.name>
> Cc: rdo-list at redhat.com
> Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2015 3:53:59 PM
> Subject: Re: [Rdo-list] GSoC Cloud in a Box
> 
> Thanks Tom, That's a great way to go about it but it totally eliminates any
> programming/development from the task and as it is summer of code I need to
> implement an open source code base. So do you have any suggestions for me
> regarding maybe extending your idea to do some development?
> 
> Otherwise currently based on responses on this thread, I am going for
> directly interfacing pack-stack with Anaconda (need to do more research on
> exact nuts & bolts of it).
> 
> On 18 June 2015 at 22:44, Tom Buskey < tom at buskey.name > wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Mohammed Arafa < mohammed.arafa at gmail.com >
> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> I am no programmer but packstack has taken 2 years or more to get where it is
> today by a team of developers (well definitely more than one :) ). I would
> not assume a single person can get anything reasonably close to that in one
> summer.
> 
> from a sysadmin point of view, i'd think a kickstart file with a post install
> section containing the path to packstack and the parameters needed would be
> the method i'd use to deploy what you want. you can translate that into
> anaconda syntax/language/format if you like
> 
> 
> 
> packstack works quite well for non-HA, single node installs.
> 
> If you want to eliminate internet access after the OS install
> 
> 
>     * kickstart a minimal base
>     * login & rpm -qa | sort > pkgfile
>     * set the yum cache to save all yum installed packages
>     * run packstack & anything else you need to install
>     * save all the packages from the yum cache
>     * add the rpms listed in the pkgfile to that store
>     * run createrepo against it to create your private repo
> 
> Now kickstart another base
> put the private repo somewhere
> create a repo file pointing at the private with file://
> 
> I'd suggest putting the original repo files on, but disabled. If you need a
> yum update beyond what's on the DVD, you can enable them and get them over
> the net as needed.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 11:26 AM, sad man < asadxflow at gmail.com > wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks a lot, So you are suggesting that I add RDO packages in ISO and
> integrate packstack with Anaconda instead of writing my own OpenStack
> installer script?
> 
> On 18 June 2015 at 15:52, Haïkel < hguemar at fedoraproject.org > wrote:
> 
> 
> Yeah, but configuring your OpenStack deployment from raw packages may
> be tricky and
> you won't be able to finish your GSoC if you go that path.
> 
> Packstack is quite reliable and it will handle most of errors. I
> suggest that you include
> RDO packages in our ISO, that will remove the dependency on network hence
> the biggest failure cause.
> 
> Regards,
> H.
> 
> 
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