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Teleport Driven Ansible Dynamic Inventory

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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?

Nova-Compute + LVM, an IOPS Love Story

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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

OpenStack-Ansible machinectl image management

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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

OpenStack-Ansible Machinectl Storage setup

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

Networkd for nspawn with OpenStack-Ansible

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

Nspawn OpenStack with OpenStack-Ansible

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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

OSIC Building Baremetal (Ironic) Images

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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

Auto tests patches for OpenStack-Ansible with OpenStack

If you have access to an OpenStack cloud that can accept user-data then spinning up a test node for a given patch is super simple. All you need to do is create a user-data script with the following contents: #!/bin/bash OS_REPO="https://git.openstack.org/openstack/openstack-ansible-os_

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