openstack

A collection of 40 posts

genestack Featured

Element as a Genestack App

I started out with the desire to have a better chat experience when interacting with IRC, and Element got me there.

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Deploying Element on a Genestack Cluster (with Gateway API + Envoy)

The desire for a better chat experience comes from the fact I wanted a modern webUI, push notifications, and the ability to have great experiences on mobile. My primary goal being a fantastic experience when interacting with IRC.

teleport

Teleport Application Containers

Teleport is a fantastic tool that gives users incredible functionality, even in the "community" releases. One such feature is the ability to use Teleport for application access, and in this post, we'll use Teleport agents to provide application access to OpenStack resources. Background If you'

teleport

Gateway API for Teleport K8S

If you've been reading some of my mutterings for a bit you know I run Teleport and love it. Over the past couple of years I've been running Teleport within my OpenStack cloud and while that's been great, I've wanted to push

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Intel iGPU Setup for vGPU use in OpenStack

Intel SR-IOV for Xe, Xe-LPG, and Xe-HPC is powerful and can be used within OpenStack with ease. The setup requires some configuration on your hypervisors and the Intel Datacenter Graphics Driver; however, in just a few steps, systems can be extended to support Virtual Graphics Processing Units without much effort

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Cloudy NixOS (OpenStack)

Recently, I decided to go down the journey of running things with NixOS. While I started with my laptop, I naturally decided to make my workspace problems part of my cloud adventure. So I figured I'd share my adventure along with my initial process for getting NixOS into

cloud Featured

Confessions of a Cloud

Someone Save Us from Our Cloudy Judgments Here I am, sitting before a digital abyss, armed with nothing but a questionable sense of humor and journaling (yes with real paper, you wouldn't understand). I've been reading a lot lately and thinking about my life choices. Sadly,

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OpenStack’s Phoenix Act: (re)Rising from today's cloud ashes

In the grand theatre of cloud computing, where titans clash, and the audience (cloud operators) get to deal with the aftermath, a plot twist has recently unfolded that could be straight out of a daytime soap opera. Enter stage left: Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware has thrown a wrench into

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New Game Plus - Resurgence: (re)taking the cloud by storm

It's been a couple months, so I'm checking in to talk about how NG+ at Rackspace has been going, things I've learned, where some issues have been, and alluding to where we're going as this next chapter gets underway.  * Yes, the cloud

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New Game Plus - Rackspace

So I've once again decided to pivot, this time bringing things back home, back to the Cloud, back to where my professional career began - Rackspace. Over the past 18 months, I've been working with Figment, a fantastic startup building Web3 infrastructure. While my team at

ansible Featured

Teleport Driven Ansible Dynamic Inventory

While there are a million ways to build Ansible inventory, what if we could build inventory using open-source access systems and not have to main multiple sources of truth?

tripleo Featured

TripleO(-Ansible) Bootcamp

In this post, I intend to bring new folks into TripleO-Ansible by explaining how TripleO is evolving. We're building a modular set of Ansible roles, playbooks, plugins, and scripts, which are reforming the foundation of enterprise-ready OpenStack environments. While that's awesome in its own right, these

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The Anatomy of Roles in TripleO-Ansible

TripleO-Ansible roles are built to be simple to understand, easily documented, and tested. In this post, I will go over the parts of a TripleO-Ansible role and why they're important. What is an Ansible Role Roles are simple and well documented by Ansible, Roles are ways of automatically

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Using TripleO-Ansible, without TripleO, in Ansible Operations

The TripleO project team has been embarking on developing Ansible roles for deploying and operating OpenStack clouds. While this is not new, over the last couple of months, we've re-ignited our simplification efforts and have focused on creating simple, well-tested tooling. We started by collecting all of our

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Trello to Storyboard

A Tail of Two Task Trackers On this little outing I'll be migrating a Trello board to a Storyboard project. The purpose of this effort is to move all cards, columns, and assets from an active Trello board into Storyboard creating new stories, worklists, tasks, and a board.

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Migrating a BTRFS Volume Between Devices

When using BTRFS volumes it's sometimes necessary to move things around. BTRFS has some great tools to assist operators to move volumes and this post will cover one available method. What is this post about While the reasons to move a device from one place to another are

openstack-ansible

Nova-Compute + LVM, an IOPS Love Story

The OpenStack Nova project has long had the ability to provision instances into logical volumes however in my travels I've found most deployments don't use it as the go-to instance storage. However recently I've been asked by a couple folks how it can be

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OpenStack-Ansible machinectl image management

With recent changes in OpenStack-Ansible we're now able to import and export container images for using the built-in systemd tooling via machinectl. This gives us the ability to rapidly provision or replace containers as needed from a pre-seeded source. In this post, I'll cover how an

nspawn

OpenStack-Ansible Machinectl Storage setup

When using the machinctl container storage backend you've got choices on how to setup your host machines. This article will cover the three very common deployment situations. 1. Simply let systemd back the /var/lib/machines directory using a loop device file which has been formatted BTRFS; this

nspawn

Networkd for nspawn with OpenStack-Ansible

Within this post, I will cover the systemd-networkd aspect of the PR to create a systemd-nspawn driver within OSA. This post will be working with systemd-networkd and systemd-resolved to integrate nspawn containers within the existing topology of a typical OpenStack-Ansible deployment. Getting systemd-networkd working for you One of the container

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Nspawn OpenStack with OpenStack-Ansible

The OpenStack-Ansible project has been around for a few years now but if you're unfamiliar with it, the TL;DR is it's an OpenStack deployment project running OpenStack services within containers and uses Ansible. The original project came from the Rackspace Private Cloud, and when it

cloud

Rolling Restart using OpenStack-Ansible

Sometimes it's useful to do a rolling restart of OpenStack services throughout the cloud. In OpenStack-Ansible we've the means to make this easy, you just need a little BASH to tie it all together. In this little aside, I'm restarting the entire cloud using

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OpenStack Bulk Job Runner

As OpenStack projects grow its likely that a given project will spawn several repositories and will share code snippets across them. If you're ever in need of updating a mess of repositories all at the same time these steps, and linked script, can help you identify all repositories

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OSIC Baremetal (Ironic) network Separation

Generating Isolated (Separated) Networks on Baremetal In the OSIC-DFW environment we're running Ironic with OpenStack integration to allow our consumers access to physical compute resources. Because of limitations in Ironic at the time of this writing we're not able to fully provide for L3 tenant networking

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OSIC Building Baremetal (Ironic) Images

This is a quick rundown on the steps used to create the OSIC baremetal images. For a more detailed rundown on Ironic image building please read the following post. Install required apt packages apt-get install -y qemu uuid-runtime curl kpartx Install the disk-image-builder (DIB) pip install diskimage-builder --isolated Clone the