I am trying a new openstack infrastructure in a Rocky9. I doubt between an RH
type installation (with rdo packages) or using the native centos-release-openstack-xxx.
The paths diverge a little, Do you have any feedback for me to consider?
I’m debating on the options for OpenStack on three physical nodes on a homelab dev setup. Lotta setup options; I’m thinking of kolla-ansible, but might just do the single node devstack first since this isn’t production. I plan to run openQA on Fedora 40/41 for RL testing (which requires something like 400gb of storage), and an instance of Forgejo (Which Fedora and RL are moving to instead of Pagure/Gitea), the Documentation Previewing setup (probably containers) and several dev containers which I’m using Podman for.
I saw another post where you were running it in RL8, do you have feedback you could post here for the benefit of all as well?
yes, I understand. There are many parameters in the configuration. With Kolla I can’t help you, I know people who use it. I wonder if using these utilities does not take you/us away from understanding some internal mechanisms of the infrastructure, more precisely the virtual network or the different storage possibilities.
Devstack I think is very useful to understand the possibilities (user point of view) of openstack, a first approach, no more.
In my case. We are configured everything by hand except the hypervisors where we use Puppet due to the repetitiveness of the task. with Rocky8 we are running > 10 compute nodes
and manila to handle the shared storage.
In other field, why don’t you use Rocky how cloud platform?
Oh this is all just in my home, not for work, and yes devstack is just a throw-away POC. I already understand the underlying mechanisms from previous jobs, just had the opportunity to use openstack. I thought that using it might be useful since I routinely repurpose 3 physical machines, but after reading much of the docs, i’m not sure it’s worth the time investment on such a small scale.
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