Openstack on Bare Metal

[Michael Galloway]

good day all,

we have an existing HPC cluster we are wanting to stand up with 
openstack. last week we began experimenting with orchestra/juju as our 
provisioning system and we seem to get stuck at the deploy services 
state with juju, which we have
gone through a couple of times.

i have orchestra up and running and juju bootstrapped per this guide:

http://cloud.ubuntu.com/2011/10/ubuntu-cloud-deployment-with-orchestra-and-juju/

a bit edited for brevity:

ubuntu at kbase-b:~$ sudo cobbler list
distros:

    oneiric-i386
    oneiric-x86_64
    precise-i386
    precise-x86_64

profiles:

    oneiric-i386
    oneiric-i386-juju
    oneiric-x86_64
    oneiric-x86_64-juju
    precise-i386
    precise-i386-juju
    precise-x86_64
    precise-x86_64-juju

systems:
    node066.kbase.lan

repos:

    oneiric-i386
    oneiric-i386-security
    oneiric-x86_64
    oneiric-x86_64-security
    precise-i386
    precise-i386-security
    precise-x86_64
    precise-x86_64-security

images:

mgmtclasses:
    orchestra-juju-acquired
    orchestra-juju-available

packages:

files:

ubuntu at kbase-b:~$ juju status
2012-02-20 10:47:42,035 INFO Connecting to environment.
machines:
   0: {dns-name: node066.kbase.lan, instance-id: 
MTMyOTY4MTEzNS41NTc1MDQuMTY0ODQyOA}
services: {}
2012-02-20 10:47:42,588 INFO 'status' command finished successfully

my environments.yaml
ubuntu at kbase-b:~/.juju$ more environments.yaml
juju: environments
environments:
   orchestra:
     type: orchestra
     # Specify the orchestra server's IP address
     orchestra-server: 172.16.100.2
     # Specify storage. In this case we are using webdav installed by 
orchestra.
     storage-url: http://172.16.100.2/webdav
     # Specify cobbler's usr/pass
     orchestra-user: cobbler
     orchestra-pass: cobbler
     admin-secret: ddddddddddddd
     # Branch from where we will install ensemble
     # juju-branch: lp:juju
     # Mangement classes
     acquired-mgmt-class: orchestra-juju-acquired
     available-mgmt-class: orchestra-juju-available
     default-series: oneiric

and i've configured the openstack charms per this guide:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/UbuntuCloudOrchestraJuju

we are looking for some hints about the best way to provision services. 
the last build, we configured a group
of nodes in orchestra, then used juju to deploy (say, mysql or rabbitmq) 
and the nodes would never boot cleanly.

i had to make changes to the hosts file on the orchestra server as well 
to get juju to boot strap cleanly.

i'm guess i'm looking for a bit of general advice/handholding on the 
best way to move forward. thanks!

--- michael







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