Hi Peter, On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 08:12:31AM -0400, Peter J. Pouliot wrote:
That sounds like an interesting setup indeed. Which packages are you using and what is your cloud controller running? SLES? openSUSE?
The nova controller/network node currently runs on SLES SP1 using the packages from the B1-Systems channel. Nova-network routes out of the cloud network fabric to our other subnets. We do not use the SNAT as they usually do because of issues with compatibility with the SuSE firewalling bits and them not being all that friendly for bridge injection/iptables rules on the network node
As long as you turn off SuSEfirewall2 things should work out just fine. We haven't run into issues with the firewalling yet. Do you have more details on that?
Bernhard Wiedemann and I have setup a private cloud based on SLES 11 SP1 as well as openSUSE 11.4 here in Nuremberg. We have found and fixed a number of bugs in the process and are about to publish our work to Virtualization:Cloud:OpenStack in the openSUSE Build Service. (So far we have used home:cthiel1:openstack for building our packages, which are based on the packages from B1 systems.)
Our second controller is running on openSUSE 11.4 with the packages from the Virtualization:Cloud:OpenStack. Greg Haskins (Who assisted B1 Systems with thier packaging) and Patrick Mullaney (Maintainer of the Virtualization:Cloud:OpenStack channel) who also did a lot of packaging work have been helping us as well. Unfortunately we did try the packages in your channel but had no success with them, and we felt it was more productive to be debugging on what we ship versus downgrading to older versions that were in line with what Ubuntu uses.
We are in the process of consolidating all packages in Virtualization:Cloud:OpenStack -- if you have any issues with any of the packages, please post to this list.
Our plan is to move to this one once we finish getting it working, because we want to use newer code. We have already been in discussion with Rackspace people to integrate our cloud into thier automated testing for both SuSE and HyperV based compute nodes.
Because of this we are probably going to have to setup a Ubuntu controller for our development until our packaging becomes inline with what we ship. However I really don't want to do that. I would love to coordinate efforts so we can advance our packages/development efforts on SLES. It might be a good idea to have a call to help us coordinate efforts.
I'd be happy to support this!
I have also had discussion with openstack core team (although it hasn't seem to have gotten much traction) to potentially use the OBS for all openstack packaging. I have also been involved in architecture discussion, pertaining to adding pxe support to nova, as well as how they should be implementing the new nova-network bits currently under development.
Having all packages in OBS would be nice, indeed :)
We also have two appliances built in SUSE Studio, one cloud controller appliance and a compute node appliances. We might publish those to SUSE Gallery at a later point in time.
I too started to build a controller appliance in Studio, however I stopped those efforts while waiting for the rest of SuSE to catch up with where we are, and get some organization around packaging. If your appliances work we would definately love to give them a try as well.
We are finalizing the appliance to making it available soon. For a nice customer experience, we would need a firstboot workflow to set-up some details, like network and basic OpenStack settings. Right now we have most of those hardcoded into our appliance. Best Christoph -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-cloud+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-cloud+help@opensuse.org