TripleO: Openstack on Openstack

Joe Gordon

About Me

Developer @
nova-core
TripleO

Cloud enables Velocity

Fast resource allocation
Agility
Develop, Test and Deploy in Cloud

Lots of happy users...

But...

It's hard to deploy and upgrade

OpenStack is Complex!

wouldn't it be nice if...

OpenStack was easier to deploy

Introducing tripleo

OpenStack on Openstack

OpenStack's official Deploymant program

TripleO

"TripleO is the use of a self hosted OpenStack infrastructure - that is OpenStack bare metal (nova and cinder) + Heat + diskimage-builder + in-image orchestration such as Chef or Puppet - to install, maintain and upgrade itself."

TripleO

Issues we are trying to address

Bugs

Continuous Integration and Delivery
Common API and codebase for the cloud and under the cloud
Standardize installation and upgrade process

Entropy/Cruft -- Golden Images
Hardware Failure -- High Availability setup

Puzzle Pieces

Provisioning: Nova baremetal

Software: Disk images

Golden Images

Encapsulate a known good set of software
Excludes configuration and persistent state
Equivalent of packages at the cluster level
Each image can be tested and deployed as-is
Small focused tool-chain to build images

configuration: os-apply-config

Combines metadata delivered to instance from cloud with templates shipped with image to produce usable configuration files.

Small utility designed specifically to move Tripleo forward without tying reference implementation to specific configuration management solution.

You can use chef/puppet/salt here instead if you prefer.

state: os-refresh-config

Triggered when when metadata is updated: responsible for restarting services, coordinating data migration, and signalling completion to Heat.

phases

pre-configure
configure
migration
post-configure

orchestration: heat

Supports any CM system within a machine
Delivers configuration metadata to machines
github.com/openstack/tripleo-heat-templates

Underclouds and Overclouds

Undercloud

Fully HA baremetal cloud
Self hosted
Aiming for two control nodes
Additional nodes are for overcloud tenants

Overcloud

Fully HA KVM based OpenStack hosted by the undercloud
Orchestrated by Heat running in the undercloud
Can (optionally) use the same disk images for most service

Installation

Create a bootstrap node that is bridged to the datacenter network.
Enroll your machines.
Tell heat to deploy your HA OpenStack templates.
Heat drives the Nova API to scale out the cloud.
Switch off the bootstrap node.
Tell Heat to recover from the loss of the VM node
Deploy the overcloud as a undercloud tenant

managing your deployment

When events occur that change our state, heat triggers will fire causing the system to respond appropriately.

Rolling backwards becomes as simple as rolling forward: simply deploy the old image.

Prevent entropy by managing your cloud the cloud way:
Store data and persistent state in persistent volume.

new possibilities and practical applications

Clouds in clouds: Multi-cloud tenancy.
Integrate this as a part of CI/CD infrastructure - deploy and test entire cloud in production-like environment on every commit.
More clouds for everyone!

Does this work today?

What problems are left to solve?

We can do this today!

and we do

just lacking polish

No persistent storage (Cinder) yet.
Rolling / canary updates in Heat.
Upgrade nova-compute without taking VMs down.
Rudimentary HA support
Robustness across OpenStack against: bugs, hardware failure, network failure, etc.

Thank You

Questions?

github.com/openstack/tripleo-incubator

wiki.openstack.org/wiki/TripleO

#tripleo on freenode