A couple of years ago I deployed an openstack cluster based on RDO. Back in the days we implemented the kilo release. Until today we didn't updated yet due to various reasons being no need for the new features, no resources, no time no.. Upgrading would be a better option but we'll have to live with it and since it's running rather well so far we are quite happy with it.

To manage that cloud I use the clients I installed on my local machine, from nova to cinder they all have different packages available for many different platforms. Only …

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 …