These are the slides from the January 22 and 24, 2013 Chef for OpenStack Hack Days in Boston and New York City. The slides were slightly updated between the 2 days, so I've only uploaded the more recent set.

1. Chef for OpenStack
NYC Chef for OpenStack Hack Day
January 24, 2013
Matt Ray
Senior Technical Evangelist
Opscode
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2. Hack Day Agenda
• Introductions
• Overview & Status of Chef for OpenStack
• Lunch?
• Deep dive topics
• Capture Progress and Roadmap
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3. Potential Hack Day Topics
• Essex code walk-through • knife-openstack
• Folsom code navigating • OpenStack-Syslog/
Monitoring Resource
• Prerequisites documentation
Providers
(OS, network)
• Using Test-Kitchen with • Testing with desktop
virtualization
OpenStack
• Swift cookbook start • Technical Debt!
• Hyper-V • Building a CI Toolchain
• RHEL/SUSE support • Build from Source
• openstack-commons vs. • Quantum & Networking
osops-utils
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4. Overview & Status of
Chef for OpenStack
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5. Chef for OpenStack: Who
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6. Chef for OpenStack: Why
• Community for the automated deployment
and management of OpenStack
• Reduce fragmentation and encourage
collaboration
• Deploying OpenStack is not "secret sauce"
• Project not a product
• Apache 2 license
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7. Chef for OpenStack: What
• Chef Repository for Deploying OpenStack
• Documentation for Chef for OpenStack
• Cookbooks
• Keystone
• Glance
• Nova
• Horizon
• Swift
• Quantum
• Cinder
• knife-openstack
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8. Chef for OpenStack: Where
• groups.google.com/group/opscode-chef-
openstack
• #openstack-chef on irc.freenode.net
• github.com/opscode/openstack-chef-repo
• github.com/mattray/openstack-chef-docs
• github.com/opscode-cookbooks/
• keystone, glance, nova, horizon,
swift,quantum,cinder
• github.com/opscode/knife-openstack
• @chefopenstack
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9. Chef for OpenStack: When (Today)
• Chef repo for Essex (2012.1.1 tag)
• Operating Systems (Ubuntu 12.04)
• Hypervisors (KVM, LXC)
• Databases (MySQL)
• FlatDHCP HA & VLAN networking
• manual floating IPs documented
• Test Kitchen integration
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10. Chef for OpenStack: When (Tomorrow)
• Documentation (docs.opscode.com)
• Folsom is under active development
• AT&T, DreamHost and Rackspace have
active branches of shared codebase
• Moving to openstack-common
• Cinder (lvm, Netapp)
• Quantum (Nicira with Open vSwitch)
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11. Chef for OpenStack When: (Roadmap)
• Documentation (docs.opscode.com)
• Grizzly & trunk(!?)
• Cinder (Ceph)
• Quantum (Midokura)
• Hypervisors (Hyper-V, bare metal)
• Databases (PostgreSQL)
• Operating Systems (RHEL, Debian, SUSE)
• HA Configurations
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12. Chef for OpenStack: How
github.com/mattray/openstack-chef-docs
moving to
github.com/opscode/chef-docs
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13. knife openstack
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14. 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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15. knife openstack flavor list
$ knife openstack flavor list
ID Name Virtual CPUs RAM Disk
1 m1.tiny 1 512 MB 0 GB
2 m1.small 1 2048 MB 10 GB
3 m1.medium 2 4096 MB 10 GB
4 m1.large 4 8192 MB 10 GB
5 m1.xlarge 8 16384 MB 10 GB
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16. knife openstack image list
$ knife openstack image list
ID Name
4a197431-503d-4b85-b61e-84af21ca8654 cirros-image
f8ebb842-c0c0-4be3-8c4c-f72f48edec50 precise-image
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17. knife openstack server create
knife openstack server create -a -f 1 -I f8ebb842-c0c0-4be3-8c4c-f72f48edec50
-S local -i ~/.ssh/local.pem -x ubuntu
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20. knife-openstack compatibility
• Uses the OpenStack API
• Diablo, Essex, Folsom
• Cloudscaling
• Crowbar
• DreamHost
• Nebula
• Piston
• Rackspace
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21. knife-openstack Roadmap
• docs.opscode.com/plugin_knife_openstack.html
• tickets.opscode.com/browse/KNIFE/component/
• security groups missing
• floating IP address management
• quantum network features to add?
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22. Chef for Infrastructure Portability
• knife openstack
• Crowbar, DreamHost, Piston, TryStack
• knife hp
• knife rackspace
• knife ec2
• ... and many others
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23. Chef for OpenStack
Resources
Ecosystem
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24. Deploying OpenStack
• Chef ties it all together automatically
• Scaling changes how we deploy
• Interchangeable components
• Configurations shared, supported &
documented
• Licensing makes it available to everyone
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25. Essex Contributors
• AT&T
• Calxeda
• Dell
• DreamHost
• Opscode
• Rackspace
• Webtrends
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26. AT&T
• github.com/att-cloud/
• primary Folsom merge source
• openstack-common
• cinder (lvm, netapp, rbd)
• lots of support cookbooks
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27. openstack-common cookbook
• Common setup recipes and attributes
describing OpenStack deployment.
• Libraries for endpoints, databases,
encrypted data bags and passwords
• replacement for osops-utils
• github.com/att-cloud/cookbook-
openstack-common
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28. Crowbar
• Hardware provisioning and application
management platform
• github.com/crowbar/
• Dell, SUSE, others
• likely Swift cookbook source combined
with Rackspace's
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29. DreamHost
• github.com/dreamhost
• ceph
• ceilometer
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30. Rackspace
• Private Cloud: Alamo
• github.com/rcbops/chef-cookbooks
• www.rackspace.com/cloud/private/
• primary Essex merge source
• likely Quantum and Red Hat source
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31. Chef for OpenStack "Halo Effect"
• Cookbooks reusable outside of OpenStack
• Test Kitchen
• Berkshelf & Librarian
• Spiceweasel
• knife-rackspace/hp/dreamhost
• Crowbar, pxe_dust & Razor
• Arista EOS cookbook
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32. Nicira Cookbook
• Nicira NVP cookbook
• Open vSwitch cookbook
• Development in progress by Opscode
• Will be open sourced
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33. Intel Cookbook
• Cookbook to tune performance of Intel
• CPUs
• Motherboards
• Networking
• SSDs
• Development in progress by Opscode
• github.com/mattray/intel-cookbook
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34. Chef for OpenStack TL;DL
• Opscode.com/openstack
• Project, not a product
• Lots of contributors with real
deployments
• Essex works, Folsom merging
• Features driven by demand
(show up for what you want)
• Documentation with examples
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35. An Evolving Project
Let's have a
Hack Day!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/16339684@N00/2681435235/
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36. Potential Hack Day Topics
• Essex code walk-through • knife-openstack
• Folsom code navigating • OpenStack-Syslog/
Monitoring Resource
• Prerequisites documentation
Providers
(OS, network)
• Using Test-Kitchen with • Testing with desktop
virtualization
OpenStack
• Swift cookbook start • Technical Debt!
• Hyper-V • Building a CI Toolchain
• RHEL/SUSE support • Build from Source
• openstack-commons vs. • Quantum & Networking
osops-utils
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37. Questions?
Matt Ray
matt@opscode.com
Twitter|GitHub|IRC: mattray
Friday, January 25, 13