[Beaker-devel] OpenStack based dynamic virtualization

Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues lmr at redhat.com
Wed Dec 18 17:27:46 UTC 2013


On 12/18/2013 06:23 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> We've been talking about possibly changing the existing dynamic
> virtualization to work with OpenStack instead of oVirt for a while, and
> I've now hammered that into a hopefully coherent concrete proposal:
>
> http://beaker-project.org/dev/proposals/dynamic-virtualization.html

I did read the proposal, it is good and clear.

> The key points in there are too:
>
> - associate lab controllers with OpenStack regions
> - map host filtering to flavour filtering
> - generate bootstrap images in Glance as part of distro import
> - use the bootstrap images for dynamic provisioning (rather than
> configuring netboot and then rebooting the system)
> - ensure console logging is hooked up properly
>
> Provisioning based on specific images is explicitly deferred, since we'd
> have to map a bunch of the stuff we do in the kickstart post to
> cloud-init, and I'd prefer to put that off to a later iteration. By

Is mapping the post install stage to cloud-init significantly harder 
than providing the boostrap images that launch anaconda?

> contrast, I think everything above is essential for dynamic
> virtualisation to be as good as what people are used to with bare metal
> provisioning (the lack of console logging with no obvious way to add it
> was one of the final nails in the coffin of the previous oVirt based
> approach).
>
> Cheers,
> Nick.
>




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