Excerpts from Jay Pipes's message of 2014-12-08 13:52:38 -0800: > Hi Jordi, thank you SO much for this email. It is excellent feedback for > our community and our developers. I've provided some comments inline, > but overall just wanted to thank you for bringing some of these product > needs to our attention. > > On 12/03/2014 01:42 PM, Jordi Moles Blanco wrote: > > And that's why I'm asking you as Openstack experts. You see, I managed > > to deploy a Cloustack 4.4.1 platform with 2 compute nodes (for > > live-migration testing) in less than 2 hours, while it took me days to > > deploy an Openstack infrastructure that was functional and sometimes it > > just breaks and I have to reboot some nodes or redeploy with Fuel. > > This is an extremely common complaint about OpenStack. That it is just > too difficult to install and configure a simple OpenStack environment > with common compute, block storage, and networking functionality. > > I could sit here and say that this problem is due to the fact that > OpenStack's community has embraced each and every configuration > management system, deployment architecture, and package management > platform and therefore the complexity you find is simply due to the > dizzying array of options and flexibility offered by the ecosystem. > > But, of course, that would be a complete cop-out and terrible excuse. > The fact is, our installation and deployment story is currently overly > complicated, inconsistently documented, and difficult for newcomers to > get their heads around. That needs to be fixed. >
We've at least decided, in spirit, to provide a single mission for automated Deployment using OpenStack itself. HP is even shipping a product, Helion, that uses it. Turns out this isn't the easiest thing in the world. OpenStack is a service oriented architecture, and making a _generic_ deployment tool, even just focusing on the default configurations, is a challenge with such a flexible architecture. Keep your eyes on the Tuskar space. It is intended to be a nice GUI for planning and deploying OpenStack. That, combined with a more generally consumable Deployment program, should have us in much better shape soon. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack Post to : openstack@lists.openstack.org Unsubscribe : http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack
