Hi all, Linaro would like to add a new cloud to infra so that we can run tests on ARM64 going forward. This discussion has been ongoing for the good part of a year, apologies that it took us so long to get to a point where we feel comfortable going ahead in terms of stability of infrastructure and functionality.
My team has been taking care of making OpenStack as multiarch as possible and making the experience of using an ARM64 cloud as close to using a traditional amd64 one as possible. We have the Linaro Developer Cloud program, which consists of a set of clouds that run on ARM64 hardware donated by the Linaro Enterprise Group members[1] and dedicated to enablement/testing of upstream projects. Until recently our clouds were run by an engineering team and were used to do enablement of different projects and bug fixes of OpenStack, now we have a dedicated admin and we are ready to take it a step forward. The clouds are currently running OpenStack Newton but we are going to be moving to Queens as soon as the release is out. Kolla has volunteered to be the first project for this experiment, they have been pushing us to start doing CI on our images so they also feel more comfortable accepting our changes. We will welcome any other project that wants to be part of this experiment, but we'll focus our engineering efforts initially on enabling Kolla CI. After some preliminary discussion with fungi and inc0, we are going to start small and grow from there. The initial plan is to add 2 projects: 1. Control-plane project that will host a nodepool builder with 8 vCPUs, 8 GB RAM, 1TB storage on a Cinder volume for the image building scratch space. A cache server with similar specs + 200GB on a cinder volume for AFS and Apache proxy caches. They will have a routable IP address. 2. Jobs project, we'll have capacity for 6 test instances initially and after initial assessment grow it as required (8 vCPUs/8 GB RAM, 80GB storage, 1 routable IP each). Is there anything else we are missing for the initial trial? Any questions/concerns before we start? I will try to have presence on the infra weekly calls/IRC channel or have someone from my team on them going forward. In practical terms, once we've created the resources, is there a guide to getting the infra bits in place for it? Who to give the credentials to/etc? Thanks! Gema [1] https://www.linaro.org/groups/leg/ -- Gema Gomez-Solano Tech Lead, SDI Linaro Ltd IRC: gema@#linaro on irc.freenode.net _______________________________________________ OpenStack-Infra mailing list OpenStack-Infra@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-infra
