Do you need to provision an NFS share for your Hadoop cluster? And what about creating a CIFS share to make your files accesible to the Windows clients? Manila is a provisioning and management service for shared file systems within OpenStack. Let’s test-drive it in this blogpost.
TripleO is an OpenStack deployment and management tool I’ve been using since the Kilo release of OpenStack. It does its job pretty well, however not everything is perfect. My experience presented in this article applies more or less to the Red Hat’s OpenStack director too, as the Red Hat OpenStack director is a downstream version of TripleO.
The MariaDB Galera packages provided by the RDO project in their OpenStack repositories don’t seem to include a command or script to bootstrap the cluster. Let’s look at an alternative way to bring the cluster up.
If you don’t monitor it, it’s not in production! To get an OpenStack cloud ready for production, monitoring is a must. Let’s take a look at two projects providing Nagios/Icinga plugins for checking the health of OpenStack services.
RDO Manager defines multiple roles that nodes can play in OpenStack deployment. For large-sized installations, RDO features automatic assignment of roles to nodes. This assignment is based on the facts that RDO obtained about each node during the introspection. However, for smaller deployments, you might prefer to assign the roles to the available nodes by hand. It was not straight forward for me to find out about this manual option even when it is described in the TripleO documentation. Let’s review the required configuration steps in this blogpost.
The OpenStack Liberty was released last week. In this article I’ll briefly describe how to deploy the OpenStack Liberty on RHEL7 using RDO Manager.
Os-net-config is a simple tool to configure networking of Linux hosts. Combined with Cloud-init, it’s suitable for network configuration of virtual machines when booting in the cloud. Let’s take a closer look at os-net-config.
In this article, we’re going to make an entire VLAN trunk on the host accessible to the guest machine. The guest machine can then create VLAN subinterfaces in order to access a particular VLAN.
Reposync can mirror the yum repository to which your machine is subscribed to. However, you cannot subscribe your machine to the RHEL6 and RHEL7 at the same time. Let’s take a look at how Docker can help us here.
Update 3/31/2016: The implementation of the ini_file module described in this blogpost has been merged into Ansible version 2.0.
For editing Windows INI files, Ansible comes with an ini_file module built in. Unfortunately, this module uses Python’s ConfigParser module which reformats the entire INI file whenever you want to change a single line. It removes all the comment lines, too. For me this was not acceptable. After looking for a possible solution I decided to improve the ini_file module and created ini_file2. I realized how easy it is to create an Ansible module.