Presentation on the state of Chef support around the OpenStack ecosystem for the Austin OpenStack Meetup February 16, 2012.

1. Deploying OpenStack with Opscode Chef
matt@opscode.com
www.opscode.com
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2. Who am I?
• Matt Ray
• Senior Technical Evangelist
• Opscode, Inc.
• Twitter/GitHub/Launchpad/IRC: mattray
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3. Deploying and Managing
OpenStack is not simple.
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4. Chef makes it easier.
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5. Infrastructure as Code
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6. Enable the reconstruction
of the business from
nothing but a source code
repository, an application
data backup, and bare
metal resources.
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7. Configuration
Management
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8. System Integration
http://www.flickr.com/photos/opalsson/3773629074/
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9. The Chef Community
• Apache License, Version 2.0
• 550+ Individual contributors
• 100+ Corporate contributors
• Dell, Rackspace,VMware, RightScale,
Heroku, and many more
• 400+ cookbooks
• http://community.opscode.com
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10. openstack-cookbooks
Resources
crowbar
openstack-chef
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11. github.com/mattray/openstack-cookbooks
• Chef repository for deploying OpenStack
• Bexar/Cactus
• source for many other efforts
• Crowbar
• Mercado Libre
• HP
• http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/
Deploying+OpenStack+with+Chef
• deprecated
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12. Crowbar
• Datacenter installer from Dell
• Extension of the Chef server
• Components are "barclamps"
• Dell released under the Apache 2 license
• Developed by Dell, Rackspace & Opscode
• Active Development & Community
• https://github.com/dellcloudedge/
crowbar
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13. github.com/openstack/openstack-chef
• Chef repository for deploying OpenStack
• Diablo
• trunk (Essex)
• source for many other efforts
• TryStack.org
• Smokestack testing
• mattray/openstack-chef
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14. Deploying OpenStack
• Chef ties it all together automatically
• Scaling changes how we deploy
• Configurations will be supported, shared &
documented
• Licensing makes it available to everyone
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15. knife openstack
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16. knife openstack
$ knife openstack
Available openstack subcommands: (for details, knife SUB-
COMMAND --help)
** OPENSTACK COMMANDS **
knife openstack flavor list (options)
knife openstack image list (options)
knife openstack server create (options)
knife openstack server delete SERVER [SERVER] (options)
knife openstack server list (options)
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17. knife.rb
#trystack.org
knife[:openstack_username] = "mattray"
knife[:openstack_password] = "password"
knife[:openstack_auth_url] = "http://trystack.org:5000/v2.0/tokens"
#demo.rcb.me
knife[:openstack_username] = "opscode"
knife[:openstack_password] = "password"
knife[:openstack_auth_url] = "http://demo.rcb.me:5000/v2.0/tokens"
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18. knife openstack flavor list
$ knife openstack flavor list
ID Name RAM Disk
1 m1.tiny 512 MB 0 GB
2 m1.small 2048 MB 20 GB
3 m1.medium 4096 MB 40 GB
4 m1.large 8192 MB 80 GB
5 m1.xlarge 16384 MB 160 GB
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19. knife openstack image list
$ knife openstack image list
ID Name
13 natty-server-cloudimg-amd64
12 natty-server-cloudimg-amd64-kernel
15 oneiric-server-cloudimg-amd64
14 oneiric-server-cloudimg-amd64-kernel
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20. knife openstack server create --node-name ko1 --flavor 1 --image 13 -S trystack
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21. knife openstack
$ knife openstack server list
Instance ID Name Public IP Private IP Flavor Image Keypair State
185 ko1 8.21.28.24 8.21.28.24 1 13 trystack active
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22. Thursday, February 16, 12

23. $ ssh -i ~/.ssh/trystack.pem ubuntu@8.21.28.24
The authenticity of host '8.21.28.24 (8.21.28.24)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is 0c:d8:3e:34:d1:de:c4:ee:5f:bc:b5:89:11:0d:73:e0.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Warning: Permanently added '8.21.28.24' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
Welcome to Ubuntu 11.04 (GNU/Linux 2.6.38-13-virtual x86_64)
* Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/
System information as of Thu Feb 16 23:43:29 UTC 2012
System load: 0.08 Processes: 63
Usage of /: 40.8% of 1.35GB Users logged in: 0
Memory usage: 6% IP address for eth0: 8.21.28.24
Swap usage: 0%
---------------------------------------------------------------------
<snip>
Get cloud support with Ubuntu Advantage Cloud Guest
http://www.ubuntu.com/business/services/cloud
The programs included with the Ubuntu system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.
Ubuntu comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by
applicable law.
To run a command as administrator (user "root"), use "sudo <command>".
See "man sudo_root" for details.
ubuntu@ko1:~$
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24. $ knife bootstrap 8.21.28.24 -i ~/.ssh/trystack.pem -x ubuntu --sudo -d omnibus
Bootstrapping Chef on 8.21.28.24
8.21.28.24 [Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:51:40 +0000] INFO: *** Chef 0.10.8 ***
8.21.28.24 [Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:51:40 +0000] INFO: Client key /etc/chef/
client.pem is not present - registering
8.21.28.24 [Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:51:42 +0000] INFO: Setting the run_list to []
from JSON
8.21.28.24 [Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:51:42 +0000] INFO: Run List is []
8.21.28.24 [Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:51:42 +0000] INFO: Run List expands to []
8.21.28.24 [Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:51:42 +0000] INFO: Starting Chef Run for
ko1.novalocal
8.21.28.24 [Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:51:42 +0000] INFO: Running start handlers
8.21.28.24 [Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:51:42 +0000] INFO: Start handlers complete.
8.21.28.24 [Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:51:43 +0000] INFO: Loading cookbooks []
8.21.28.24 [Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:51:43 +0000] WARN: Node ko1.novalocal has an
empty run list.
8.21.28.24 [Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:51:44 +0000] INFO: Chef Run complete in
1.414499044 seconds
8.21.28.24 [Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:51:44 +0000] INFO: Running report handlers
8.21.28.24 [Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:51:44 +0000] INFO: Report handlers complete
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25. Yay Bleeding Edge!
$ git clone git@github.com:mattray/fog.git
$ cd fog
$ gem build fog.gemspec
$ gem install fog-1.1.2.gem
$ git clone -b 0.6.0 git@github.com:mattray/knife-openstack.git
$ cd knife-openstack
$ gem build knife-openstack.gemspec
$ gem install knife-openstack-0.6.0.gem
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26. What's Next?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/felixmorgner/4347750467/
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27. knife-openstack roadmap
• Patches will be merged upstream
• http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/
OpenStack+Bootstrap+Fast+Start+Guide
• bootstrap will be fixed
• Push to Rubygems.org
• Testing will be done with Crowbar
• Essex/trunk support will be tested
• security groups and floating IPs
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28. Chef Roadmap
• Diablo release (RCB patches)
• Essex milestones (RCB patches)
• Multiple Hypervisors
• KVM, Xen, LXC?
• Databases
• PostgreSQL, MySQL
• HA Support
• Red Hat/Illumos?
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29. Questions?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrchippy/443960682/
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30. Thanks!
http://www.opscode.com
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