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Cloudy NixOS (OpenStack)

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

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?

TripleO(-Ansible) Bootcamp

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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

Using TripleO-Ansible, without TripleO, in Ansible Operations

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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

Trello to Storyboard

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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.

Migrating a BTRFS Volume Between Devices

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

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

OpenStack Bulk Job Runner

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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

OSIC Baremetal (Ironic) network Separation

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

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

OpenStack Ironic Node Enrollment

OpenStack Ironic Node Enrollment

Enroll your first node into ironic Enrolling a node into Ironic is quite simple though its non-trival. It's only a couple of API calls to make all of it come together but does require a bit of information. In the after now the Ironic Inspector should make life

OpenStack Ironic Images and Flavors

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OpenStack Ironic Images and Flavors

Building images and crafting flavors is non-trivial. I've searched the world wide web for prebuilt images which universally work with Ironic and sadly there's nothing out there. So without further ado here is how you can build your own images and create a flavor. Building Ironic

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