The Whole Stack

Custom OpenStack with environments with Chef
and omnibus-openstack

ChefConf 2014

Craig Tracey / @craig_tracey

Who?

Chef for OpenStack

Some History

Chef for OpenStack

Chef for OpenStack Support

Too Many Moving Parts

Controlling Your Own Destiny

(or at least your product roadmap)

Omnibus-OpenStack

How does it work?

Build Support

• continuous integration
• Vagrant w/inline shell
• OpenStack Heat

Sample Configuration

ctracey@laptop:~/src/omnibus-openstack-build$ cat openstack-config.yml
---
keystone:
  version: 'stable/havana'
  source:
    git: 'https://github.com/openstack/keystone.git'
glance:
  version: 'stable/havana'
  source:
    git: 'https://github.com/openstack/glance.git'
...

# These will all build the default 'master'
keystoneclient:
  source:
    git: 'https://github.com/openstack/python-keystoneclient.git'
glanceclient:
  source:
    git: 'https://github.com/openstack/python-glanceclient.git'
                    

Usage

ctracey@laptop:$ bundle install
...
ctracey@laptop:$ bundle exec omnibus-openstack help build
Commands:
  omnibus-openstack build  m, --manifest=MANIFEST  # Build us some OpenStack
  omnibus-openstack build help [COMMAND]           # Describe subcommands or one specific subcommand

Options:
  n, [--name=NAME]                  # Package name
  i, [--install-path=INSTALL_PATH]  # Install path
  d, [--description=DESCRIPTION]    # Package description
  v, [--version=VERSION]            # Version for the resulting artifacts
  c, [--cachedir=CACHEDIR]          # Directory to cache build elements to.
                                    # Default: .cache

ctracey@laptop:$ bundle exec omnibus-openstack build -m openstack-config.yml
...
                    

I Have A Package, Now What?

• wrapper cookbook
• no stackforge cookbook dependencies
• upstart and update-alternatives

Simple

...
  config.vm.provision "chef_solo" do |chef|
    chef.add_recipe "recipe[apt::default]"
    chef.add_recipe "recipe[omnibus-openstack-reference::default]"
    chef.add_recipe "recipe[openstack-omnibus::default]"
    chef.add_recipe "recipe[openstack-identity::server]"
    chef.add_recipe "recipe[openstack-image::api]"

    chef.json = {
      "mysql" => {
        "bind_address" => "0.0.0.0",
        "server_debian_password" => "password",
        "server_root_password" => "password",
        "server_repl_password" => "password"
      },
      "openstack" => {
        "developer_mode" => true,
        "memcached_servers" => [],

        "omnibus" => {
          "enabled_services" => %w(identity image.glance-api)
        }
      },
      "omnibus-openstack-reference" => {
        "apt_repo_url" => "#{ENV['OMNIBUS_APT_REPO']}",
        "apt_key_server" => "#{ENV['OMNIBUS_APT_KEY_SERVER']}",
        "apt_key" => "#{ENV['OMNIBUS_APT_KEY']}"
      }
    }
  end
...
                        

Simple

...
[2014-04-17T01:40:34+00:00] INFO: Chef Run complete in 975.393518569 seconds
[2014-04-17T01:40:34+00:00] INFO: Running report handlers
[2014-04-17T01:40:34+00:00] INFO: Report handlers complete
ctracey@ctracey-desktop:~/omnibus-cookbook-reference$ vagrant ssh
Welcome to Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.5.0-23-generic x86_64)

 * Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com/

118 packages can be updated.
58 updates are security updates.

Last login: Thu Apr 17 03:16:45 2014 from 10.0.2.2
vagrant@ubuntu-12:~$ status keystone
keystone start/running, process 19736
vagrant@ubuntu-12:~$ status glance-api
glance-api start/running, process 19654
vagrant@ubuntu-12:~$
                       

What still needs to be done?

Benefits

Possible Downsides

Lessons Learned

Where Next?

Help?

References

Cookbooks

thanks

"make more awesome"