Welcome to the blog of Edmund Haselwanter. Writing about IaaS (mostly OpenStack), Config Management (Chef/Puppet), Infrastructure as Code.

SCOTTY: She's all yours, sir. All systems *automated* and ready.
                A chimpanzee and two trainees could run her!

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Using Test Kitchen And Puppet On OpenStack

This is a followup article to Using Test Kitchen With Puppet. This time we want to run our tests against an Openstack deployment. You can follow my article Howto Create A Minimal Viable OpenStack Deployment With Devstack In Your Local LAN to install...


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Using Test Kitchen With Puppet

From the kitchen.ci homepage:

Your infrastructure deserves tests too.

So lets write some integration test for our puppet code. We will use a super simple puppet manifest just deploying ntp as a hello world example focusing on test-kitchen instead...


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Chef Fundamentals Training Reykjavik

Chef Fundamentals near the north pole ;-)

Super happy to teach a Chef class in Iceland.

Feedback Results:

Avg Min Max
4,77 4,50 5,00 „course adressing the topics announced“
4,61 4,10 5,00 „pre-requisites appropriate“
4,67 4,40 5,00 „do you believe...


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SUSECloud Part 3 Creating A Gateway Server For The Multinode OpenStack Environment

Welcome back to the next post in the series about deploying a multinode OpenStack testlab environment. This time we will focus on the outside-in to our cluster. We will create a gateway server for our SUSECloud OpenStack deployment and access the floating...


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SUSECloud Part 2 Install The OpenStack Services And Ceph On the Multinode Environment Command Line Style

Prerequisites

Have a cluster installed like in: SUSECloud Part 1 - Install The Multi Node OpenStack/Ceph Environment

Getting OpenStack Installed

Turn on the one or more VMs that will act as hosts which SUSECloud can provision.

cd crowbar-virtualbox...


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SUSECloud Part 2 Install The OpenStack Services And Ceph On the Multinode Environment Point And Click Style

Prerequisites

Have a cluster installed like in: SUSECloud Part 1 - Install The Multi Node OpenStack/Ceph Environment

After you have installed the admin node you can access the SUSECloud admin website.

Getting OpenStack Installed

  • Turn on the...


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Howto Create A Minimal Viable OpenStack Deployment With Devstack In Your Local LAN

Cheat Sheet Version

This will become a full fledged blog post. At this time it is just the happy-path description to get it running without much explanation.

Preparation

networking: be sure to load the driver for the USB 1GB nic

sudo add-apt-repository...


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SUSECloud Part 1 - Install The Multi Node OpenStack/Ceph Environment

Prerequisites

We need to have a VirtualBox environment set up. For SLES have a look at this blog post: Install Virtualbox on SLES 11 SP3.

As SLES and SUSECloud are commercial offerings you have to register in order to be able to do download the iso...


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Install Virtualbox on SLES 11 SP3

I had some trouble installing VirtualBox on SLES 11 SP3, so here are some notes on what you want to do

Prepare the Build Environment

The VirtualBox rpm needs to compile and install kernel modules. We have to ensure that every dependency for that...


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