Re: [gentoo-dev] Openstack image availability

[Matthew Thode]

On 06/08/2015 01:10 PM, Daniel wrote:
> I thought I would point out a few things
>
> 1) Did you happen to see this guys step by step instructions for
> creating a cloud image:
> http://terrarum.net/blog/creating-a-gentoo-cloud-image.html
>
> I basically followed these instructions a year or so ago, and with a few
> tweaks was able to get Gentoo running on OpenStack.
>
> 2) I have extensive knowledge of OpenStack, it's been my profession for
> the past 2 years, so if you need any assistance, let me know.
>
> There are automated platforms such as Fuel by Mirantis that can help
> people deploy OpenStack on a virtual environment in case anyone wanted
> to try it out.  Also DevStack is another common platform people use to
> test with.
>
> Just throwing my 2 cents into the conversation
>
> - Daniel
>
> On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Matthew Thode
> <prometheanfire@g.o <mailto:prometheanfire@g.o>> wrote:
>
>     On 06/08/2015 01:38 PM, wireless@×××××××××××.com
>     <mailto:wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote:
>     > On 06/08/2015 10:30 AM, Matthew Thode wrote:
>     >> Hi,
>     >>
>     >> I've just started generation of Gentoo Openstack images.  Right
>     now it
>     >> is just a basic amd64 image, but I plan on adding nomultilib and
>     >> hardened variants (for a total of at least 4 images).  I plan on
>     >> generating these images at least weekly.
>     >>
>     >> These images are not yet sanctioned by our infra team, but I plan on
>     >> remedying that (being a member of said team should help).
>     >>
>     >> I am currently using the scripts at
>     >> https://github.com/prometheanfire/gentoo-cloud-prep to generate the
>     >> images (based on a heavily modified version of Matt Vandermeulen's
>     >> scripts).  If you have any issues please submit bugs there or
>     contact me
>     >> on irc (prometheanfire on freenode).
>     >>
>     >> Here's the link to the images, I'm currently gpg signing them
>     with the
>     >> same key I use to sign this email (offline master key smartcard setup
>     >> for security minded folk).
>     >>
>     >> http://23.253.251.73/
>     >>
>     >> Let me know if you have questions,
>     >>
>     >
>     >
>     > OK, So to test the images, just burn a dvd/usbstick and run it like a
>     > liveDVD? I did not see instructions or brief guidance; I'm noob with
>     > openstack but curious to see how she performs......
>     >
>     >
>     > Long term, will we get an openstack-meta (testing) out of this in
>     > portage, or should I just dedicated an old dual core amd64 box for
>     image
>     > testing?
>     >
>     > I'm  building up (from 100%  sources) a mesos cluster offering
>     > with cephfs, Apache-spark, Apache-storm and tachyon. It'd be great to
>     > run some tests of codes on openstack (running on local hardware) and
>     > then test the same hardware running Apache-mesos. So any
>     suggestions you
>     > have on that (so the comparisons are as similar as possible, including
>     > recommended test codes) would be of keen interest to me.
>     >
>     >
>     > James
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     This is an image to deploy on top of Openstack.  While you can deploy
>     Openstack on the image, it isn't made for that purpose.
>
>     Something like this is needed to import it into glance.
>
>     glance image-create --name gentoo-20150608 --disk-format qcow2
>     --container-format bare --is-public True --min-disk 5 --min-ram 512
>     --file gentoo-amd64-multilib_2015-06-08.qcow2 --progress
>
>
>     --
>     Matthew Thode (prometheanfire)
>
>
Thanks,

I did have that link as one of the items in a list of reference
material.  The reason I went the way I did is so I could integrate into
our (Gentoo infra's) image building process.

Also, thanks for the offer to help, we are in the #gentoo-openstack
channel on freenode.  I've been working the last few years on openstack
(including the ebuild maintence for it in gentoo) at Rackspace :P.

I generally recommend people use the openstack-meta-2015.0.9999 package
right now, as it deploys from stable/kilo.

-- 
Matthew Thode (prometheanfire)