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Build a Basic Cloud Using RDO-manager

30 January 2016

@rainsdance#RDOcommunity

This is not a workshop. It could be, but it's not.

This is a knowledge dump, an introduction to RDO Manager, what kind of environment and pre-requisites are needed, and, yes, how to install your own basic cloud for development purposes. This is for developers who would like their own basic cloud solution, for new and potential contributors to OpenStack, TripleO, and RDO.

How many of you are developers? End users? Active contributors to Open Stack? TripleO?

RDO Manager / RDO / SpinalStack / TripleO / OpenStackEnvironmentInstallationResources

RDO / SpinalStack / TripleO / OpenStack

RDO Manager is an OpenStack installer geared to maximize the utilization of your Openstack infrastructure by adding and decreasing server capacity based on the needs of your Openstack cloud utilization.

RDO Manager is based on TripleO (Openstack on Openstack) and utilizes the idea of undercloud and overcloud deployments. RDO Manager deploys the undercloud server (One Physical or virtual server) with a basic All-in-One Openstack installation that will in turn, inventory, build, deploy and manage the overcloud (Your Cloud Infrastructure).

[https://www.rdoproject.org/]

while the description on the main rdo project page is more informative, the description on the rdo-manager page is crap. only the first line is remotely helpful. that rdo manager is an openstack deployment and management tool for rdo. it is based on openstack tripleo project and its philosophy is inspired by spinal stack project. here are the questions i have from that description that will help me form the basis to an introduction to rdo manager.

RDO-Manager is an OpenStack Deployment & Management tool for RDO. It is based on OpenStack TripleO project and its philosophy is inspired by Spinal Stack project.

What is openstack?What is open source?What is a cloud?What is deployment and management?What is RDO?What is the openstack tripleo project?What is spinal stack?

What is OpenStack?

OpenStack is open source software for creating private and public clouds. OpenStack software controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, managed through a dashboard or via the OpenStack API. OpenStack works with popular enterprise and open source technologies making it ideal for heterogeneous infrastructure.

[http://www.openstack.org]

- a cloud computing project aimed at providing infrastructure as a service- open source software for building clouds- an umbrella over multiple independent components / projects- aims to meet the needs of public and private clouds, regardless of SIZE by being simple to implement and MASSIVELY scalable.

What is OpenStack?

What is OpenStack?

What is cloud computing?

Cloud computing, also known as 'on-demand computing', is a kind of Internet-based computing, where shared resources, data and information are provided to computers and other devices on-demand. It is a model for enabling ubiquitous, on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing]

- on demand self service( provisioning of computing capabilities without human interaction / I can press a button and spin up a developer's environment complete with web server, attached storage, and language tools / requirements installed ) - broad network access ( services available over the network )- rapid elasticity( capabilities can be provisioned and released to scale rapidly )- resource pooling( resources are pooled to serve multiple consumers who often have no knowledge of the resource location )- measured service( monitoring / controlling / reporting / telemetry / $ )

What is OpenStack TripleO?

TripleO is OpenStack on OpenStack. It is a program aimed at installing, upgrading and operating OpenStack clouds using OpenStack's own cloud facilities as the foundations - building on nova, neutron and heat to automate fleet management at datacenter scale (and scaling down to as few as 2 machines).

[https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/TripleO]

TripleO is a program aimed at installing, upgrading and operating OpenStack clouds using OpenStack's own cloud facilities as the foundations - building on nova, neutron and heat to automate fleet management at datacentre scale (and scaling down to as few as 2 machines).

https://www.openstack.org/summit/portland-2013/session-videos/presentation/openstack-on-openstack-overview

TripleO is raw but usable today - see our tripleo-incubator for deployment instructions.

http://docs.openstack.org/developer/tripleo-docs/index.html

What is OpenStack TripleO?

What is OpenStack TripleO?

What is Spinal Stack?

The Spinal Stack project was the solution to install OpenStack in production developed and maintained primarily at eNovance along with the open source community.Bare-metal provisioner: hardware discovery, validation and configuration

Configure OpenStack services to be highly available and scalable

Flexible environments to adapt to various needs

Post-deployment checks and runset of tests to validate the deployed OpenStack

Orchestration of upgrades without downtime

View logs in real-time through the UI

Support for Red Hat

Based 1OO% on upstream

[http://spinal-stack.readthedocs.org/en/latest/]

What is RDO?

RDO project is a community of people using and deploying OpenStack on CentOS, Fedora, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

[https://www.rdoproject.org/]

Get ready for some deja vu.

- a cloud computing project aimed at providing infrastructure as a service- open source software for building clouds- an umbrella over multiple independent components / projects- aims to meet the needs of public and private clouds, regardless of SIZE by being simple to implement and MASSIVELY scalable.

ON CENTOS FEDORA AND RHEL

RDO project is the open source project that tweaks, tests, and builds Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform.

What is RDO Manager?

RDO Manager is an OpenStack installer geared to maximize the utilization of your Openstack infrastructure by adding and decreasing server capacity based on the needs of your Openstack cloud utilization.

RDO Manager is based on TripleO (Openstack on Openstack) and utilizes the idea of undercloud and overcloud deployments. RDO Manager deploys the undercloud server (One Physical or virtual server) with a basic All-in-One Openstack installation that will in turn, inventory, build, deploy and manage the overcloud (Your Cloud Infrastructure).

[https://www.rdoproject.org/]

Environment

The baremetal machine must meet the following minimum system requirements: Virtualization hardware extenstions enabled (nested KVM is not supported)

1 quad core CPU

12 GB free memory

120 GB disk space

Environment

By default, this setup creates 3 virtual machines: 1 Undercloud

1 Overcloud Controller

1 Overcloud Compute

Each virtual machine must consist of at least 4 GB of memory and 40 GB of disk space.

Environment

RDO Manager currently supports the following operating systems: RHEL 7.1 x86_64 or

CentOS 7 x86_64

At first, I was working on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, however, I didn't want licenses and registration to be a barrier for people to join the project and since RDO Manager is the downstream version of TripleO, I used CentOS 7 instead.

Installation by Hand

Documentation RDO-Manager User Guide: https://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/openstack-m/rdo-manager-docs/liberty/Environment Preparation

Install the UnderCloud

Deploy a Basic OverCloud

Installation by Script

https://github.com/redhat-openstack/tripleo-quickstartRun the script which does environment preparation and undercloud installation

Deploy a basic overcloud

Thank You

leanderthal on #rdo Freenode@rainsdance #RDOcommunityhttps://github.com/redhat-openstack/tripleo-quickstart

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