Thanks everyone for your help and encouragement! A lot of great suggestions and I really appreciate them all.
It's had been hard to wrap my head around the many different ways to deploy openstack. Reading every method has confused me even more. I will give some of these a try next week and hopefully I will be successful. Thanks again, Jake On 2013/07/13, at 7:08, Stefano Maffulli <stef...@openstack.org> wrote: > On 07/11/2013 11:58 PM, Jake G. wrote: >> <rant> >> Does anyone have installation instructions that a human being can >> actually understand and follow? > > Hi Jake, I think I understand what you're going through: the pain you're > reporting is unfortunately known and not rare. > > The documentation team is aware that the installation instructions are > in urgent need for attention. The reasons for this technical debt is > that the documentation team has given priority to documenting the > general aspects of OpenStack. Writing an installation guide that is > general/generic for all sorts of possible combinations is too > complicated, so that task was given lower priority (the books like > Operations Guide and Security Guide were given higher priority, in case > you asked). > > So, while knowing this won't help you ease your pain, I hope it sheds > some light on the reasons why the official installation documentation is > behind the rest of the docs. > > To close the technical debt, Anne and the rest of the documentation team > will be working on a set of *opinionated* install guides. Acknowledging > that installing a complex system like OpenStack is (ahem) complex, what > makes it simpler is to make assumptions that reduce the variables. The > reasons why you see so many blog posts, small install guides, etc is > that these make assumptions to reduce the number of variables like: do I > use one or three or more nodes? nova network or neutron? swift? how to > configure keystone auth? what networking topology? where do I put the > dashboard? how about HA? etc > > This is a call to anybody interested in documenting OpenStack > installation: join the documentation team and contribute your expertise > to write an *opinionated* guide to install OpenStack. It won't be the > ultimate guide to install OpenStack in all possible scenarios but it > will be a way to start. > > https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Documentation > https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Documentation/HowTo > > thanks > stef > > -- > Ask and answer questions on https://ask.openstack.org _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
