OpenStack

OSP Director OSP Director (or upstream TripleO) is a life-cycle manager for OpenStack based on the idea of using ‘OpenStack’ to deploy ‘OpenStack’. To do so, it creates a management ‘Undercloud’, that is configured and prepared for later deploying an ‘overcloud’ which is the one that will later run the workloads. TripleO/Director, also automates the inspection of hosts and tagging to the roles they will perform later in the ‘overcloud’ setup, such as ‘controller’, ‘compute’, ‘storage’, or even mixed roles via composable-roles support. ...

Introduction In the article “Contributing to OpenStack” we did cover on how to prepare accounts and prepare your changes for submission upstream (and even how to find low hanging fruits to start contributing). Here, we’ll cover what happens behind the scene to get change published. Upstream workflow Peer review Upstream contributions to OSP and other projects are based on Peer Review, that means that once a new set of code has been submitted, several steps for validation are required/happen before having it implemented. ...

InfraRed is tool that allows to install/provision OpenStack. You can find the documentation for the project at http://infrared.readthedocs.io. Also, developers and users are online in FreeNode at #infrared channel. Why InfraRed? Deploying OSP with OSP-d (TripleO) requires several setup steps for preparation, deployment, etc. InfraRed simplifies them by automating with ansible most of those steps and configuration. It allows to deploy several OSP versions Allows to ease connection to installed vm roles (Ceph, Computes, Controllers, Undercloud) Allows to define working environments so one InfraRed-running host can be used to manage different environments and much more… Setup of InfraRed-running host Setting InfraRed is quite easy, at the moment the version 2 (branch on github) is working pretty well. ...

Contributing to an OpenSource project might take some time at the beginning, the good thing with OpenStack is that there are lot of guides on how to start and collaborate. What I did is to look for a bug in the project tagged as low-hanging-fruit, this allows to browse a large list of bugs that are classified as easy, so they are the best place for new starters to get familiar with the workflow. ...