TripleO Installer - the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Posted by dba477 on May 4, 2016 6:30 AM EDT
http://alesnosek.com/; By Ales Nosek
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TripleO installer is a great tool to deploy an OpenStack cloud. It’s backed by a large user community and doesn’t invent any new tools to install OpenStack.On the other hand, I’m somewhat sceptical about Heat being the right tool to do software configuration. Funneling the configuration options through the Heat templates down to the Puppet scripts seems cumbersome to me.

Let Heat do the node provisioning, network configuration and perhaps a minimum node setup using cloud-init. At the end of the deployment, Heat would provide the information about the deployment in the format understandable to the configuration management tools like Puppet, Chef or Ansible. The configuration management tool then merges the facts provided by Heat with the tons of OpenStack configuration settings provided by the user

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