last couple of days I have been fighting with the way an static ip is configured on an openstack virtual centos 6 instance. In our specific use case we ditched as many network openstack services as possible as I previously described.

We want to have the instances running in our current network spaces of the R&D department. In this department until some days ago we didn't had any DHCP server running. But a few weeks back we added an extra remote network space into our platform where we configured a remote compute-node.

This is where the issues started popping …

A few months ago I implemented an RDO based openstack kilo release private cloud at one of our customers for their development platform. Through time we tackled a couple of issues so the cloud could be fitted into their work flows.

We stumbled onto some minor issues and some major ones. Let's begin with the minor ones ;)

When upgrading the all-in-one controller before we started using the cloud in 'production' a mean bug bit us in the ankle due to a new hiera package. After some digging around a patch came to the rescue together with the exclusion of the …