[rhos-list] Running openshift on openstack

[Matt Hicks]

On 01/16/2013 05:28 PM, Steven Dake wrote:
> On 01/16/2013 01:51 PM, Matt Hicks wrote:
>> On 01/16/2013 08:42 AM, Perry Myers wrote:
>>> On 01/16/2013 02:41 AM, anu.bhaskar.babu at accenture.com wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Is there any working documentation for installing and running 
>>>> Openshift Origin on Redhat Openstack.
>>> Matt, does your team have any docs around this?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Perry
>> Looping in Krishna and Bill.  Do you guys have anything OpenStack 
>> focused out there?
>>
>> -Matt
>>
> Matt,
>
> We have done a bit of work on making heat launch OpenShift on 
> OpenStack.  See: http://wiki.openstack.org/Heat/Running-openshift
>
> This can only improve with time, including autoscaling support and 
> integration with Moniker (DNS as a service) as well as helping us 
> understand networking points outlined elsewhere.
>
> Unfortunately we have difficulty keeping the integration working 
> consistently because OpenShift is moving so quickly - especially the 
> tooling around building RPMs.  We have gone through many different 
> approaches to get OpenShift working on OpenStack (outlined at the wiki 
> page above).  What would help the Heat team tremendously is a package 
> repo for OpenShift built against the F18 toolchain which are tested, 
> stable, and only change after having gone through some rudimentary QE 
> (vs a per-commit rpm repo which is less then ideal). This would allow 
> us to always deploy a known working OpenShift against a known working 
> Fedora baseline.  I expect anyone else doing this work will have a 
> similar requirement if they have spent similar engineering hours on 
> this problem as the heat team has.  We have tried the repo packages in 
> the past and they were built on two different Fedora versions, 
> requiring two different major versions of ruby.    I understand the 
> problems with putting OpenShift in Fedora (toolchain changes right 
> before deadlines), and am hopeful we won't have to wait until F19 to 
> make this integration point a reality.
>
> Regards
> -steve
>
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We will absolutely get this for you.  We're working with Seth Vidal on 
the coprs work to see if we can establish a better process of building 
against Fedora.  Krishna has also been testing against F18 and we've got 
a couple of systemd bugs to run down.  I'll sync up with the guys here 
and see if we can get you guys some dates. OpenShift and OpenStack 
integration is a critical priority for us next year and we really, 
really appreciate the work you guys have done to date.  If you are 
interested, I also have some Amazon CloudFormations templates that I 
used to deploy a multi-tier OpenShift Enterprise at Amazon re:Invent.  
Testing them out with Heat has been on my todo list forever now but I 
haven't been able to get to it.  I'm happy to share them if you think it 
might help with anything.

-Matt