[Openstack] [Heat] Multi-Cloud Troubleshooting

2014-12-10 Thread Joe D'Andrea
Has anyone been able to get multi-cloud working in Heat (Juno)? It appears as though I have everything set up correctly, but I wonder if there's "one more thing" missing. Here are the details: http://paste.openstack.org/show/148734/ I understand that no tests exist for multi-cloud at the moment

[Openstack] [Heat] Stack Lifetime, Signaling, and AutoScaling Groups

2014-06-17 Thread Joe D'Andrea
Greetings! I am new to OpenStack and have a few questions: 1. Is the "Walk-through in a stack's lifetime" section of this Wiki page accurate as of Icehouse? If not, what has changed? https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Heat/ApplicationDeployment 2. Related to #1, going forward, is it recommended to

Re: [Openstack] [Heat] Stack Lifetime, Signaling, and AutoScaling Groups

2014-06-17 Thread Joe D'Andrea
Hi, Zane! Thanks for all your responses. Regarding cfn-tools vs cloud-init, I'm starting out with Icehouse and no prior cfn-tools usage to maintain. I will likely look toward cloud-init, though Software Deployments + golden images sounds terrific. jd — Joe D’Andrea AT&T Labs - Research Cloud T

Re: [Openstack] [Heat] Stack Lifetime, Signaling, and AutoScaling Groups

2014-06-30 Thread Joe D'Andrea
Steve, Zane: Thanks for your respective clarifications regarding cloud-init vs SoftwareConfig/SoftwareDeployment! I'll keep in mind that cloud-init is boot-only as well. - Joe ___ Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opens

[Openstack] Deploying to a specific host using scheduler_hints

2014-07-23 Thread Joe D'Andrea
I have a need to deploy a given VM on a specific host in my OpenStack Icehouse cluster, bypassing availability zones entirely. To help with this, I've attempted the following: 1. Created Host Aggregate. Each contains a single host and metadata of the form 'host=hostname' (e.g., 'host=myhost').

Re: [Openstack] Deploying to a specific host using scheduler_hints

2014-07-23 Thread Joe D'Andrea
On Jul 23, 2014, at 4:34 PM, Mike Spreitzer wrote: > Did you know that you can specify the host to use by abusing the parameter > named "availability_zone" ... I sure do! That's partially what led me to looking at scheduler hints (more below). There were two issues, actually. 1. At first, I

Re: [Openstack] How to run the HEAT autoscaling YAML

2014-11-03 Thread Joe D'Andrea
Hi Mridhul. Welcome to Heat! :) On Nov 3, 2014, at 2:17 AM, Mridhul Pax wrote: > I'm trying to run the autoscaling heat template under > :https://github.com/openstack/heat-templates/blob/master/hot/autoscaling.yaml > > Can someone quickly help me how to run this and what all the parameters to

Re: [Openstack] How to run the HEAT autoscaling YAML

2014-11-10 Thread Joe D'Andrea
On Nov 6, 2014, at 8:21 PM, Venu Murthy wrote: > ...if we have a controller node, Compute Node A and Compute Node B. In the > same availability zone. ... how can we load balance or start spawning our > instances on Compute Node B, if the Compute Node A's utilisation has reached > a threshold.