OpenStack

OpenStack

OpenStack consists of a number services for running IaaS clouds. They are the Object Store (Swift), Compute (Nova) and Image (Glance) services.

The Diablo release of OpenStack was included Fedora 16. The Essex release will be included in Fedora 17.

This page tracks Fedora Cloud SIG's effort to maintain OpenStack in Fedora.

Getting Started

See Getting started with OpenStack Nova for details on how to try out the OpenStack packages on Fedora 16.

Packages

• openstack-swift (bugs)
• openstack-glance (bugs)
• openstack-nova (bugs)
• python-novaclient (bugs)
• openstack-keystone (bugs)
• openstack-quantum (bugs)

Package Reviews

• openstack-swift (done)
• openstack-nova (done)
• openstack-glance (done)
• python-novaclient (done)
• openstack-keystone (done)
• openstack-quantum (done)
• python-nova-adminclient (needs review)
• openstack-tempo (needs review)

Packaging in progress:

1. openstack-horizon - self service web UI (Cole Robinson)
2. openstack-melange - network information service (Bob Kukura)

ToDo

Prepare for F16 test day:

• SELinux policy for Nova
• Investigate existing test suites
• Experiment with Keystone configuration
• Downloadable Fedora images
• Try using cloud-init with OpenStack

Notable bugs:

• Figure out how to handle DB migrations in package updates
• Cannot terminate instance after compute node reboot
• Get correct version of python-xattr included in Fedora for glance image caching
• See also the "bugs" links with each of the packages above

Packaging:

• Dashboard
• Quantum
• VNC console/ajaxterm
• See also the "to package" list below

Integration with Aeolus:

• Deltacloud driver for OpenStack 1.1 API
• Image factory support for uploading to OpenStack

Misc project ideas:

• Fedora package builds of trunk in upstream's CI system
• Image building service based on Oz
• Use libguestfs for file injection
• Use Qpid instead of RabbitMQ

Images

Rather than recommending users to download pre-built Ubuntu images in Getting_started_with_OpenStack Nova, we should have a set of official Fedora images like Cloud_SIG/EC2_Images. These should be built using similar process to the EC2 images.

For now, we can suggest users build Fedora images using Oz.

To Package

1. noVNC - a HTML5 VNC client
2. openstack-reddwarf - database as a service (will be part of openstack-nova?
3. crowbar - OpenStack deployment service and chef wrapper

On the shelf for now:

• openstack-burrow - message queue
  • Burrow development seems to have halted a while back when the main dev stopped working on it

Notes

• Upstream bugs tagged with diablo-backport are good candidates for cherry-picking
• It may be be useful to compare OpenStack's packaging on other distributions. See the OpenStack Packaging wiki
• It may also be good to join Ubuntu's OpenStack packaging mailing list
• Ubuntu's Cloud Images

OpenStack in Fedora 17

The following features are proposed for Fedora 17:

• Features/OpenStack Essex
• Features/OpenStack Quantum
• Features/OpenStack using libguestfs
• Features/OpenStack using Oz for image building
• Features/OpenStack using virtual watchdog
• Features/OpenStack using Qpid
• more to come ...

OpenStack in EPEL

All of the packages require python-sphinx. These all need at least this adjustment for EL6:

-BuildRequires:    python-sphinx
+%{?fedora:BuildRequires:    python-sphinx >= 1.0}
+%{?el6:BuildRequires:    python-sphinx10}

and to use sphinx-1.0-build instead of sphinx-build.

Packages in EPEL

• openstack-swift, 1.0.2, need to update to 1.4.3 (1.4.0 in F16)
• python-distutils-extra, needed by openstack-nova
• bpython, needed by openstack-nova
• python-migrate, spec fixed to Require: python-tempita (#748784)
  • fix pushed to epel-testing 20111119 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/python-migrate-0.6-5.el6

Packages needing to be added to EPEL

• openstack-glance, pushed to epel-testing 20111024 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2011-4766
• python-novaclient, pushed to epel-testing 20111104 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/python-novaclient-2.6.1-0.5.89bzr.el6
  • needs python-prettytable, pushed to epel-testing 20111024 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/python-prettytable-0.5-2.el6
• openstack-nova #749385 fixed in git, #748490 issue with last build https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/openstack-nova-2011.3-8.el6
  • needs adjusting to use libguestfs rather than nbd to inject files to images. #734727
  • needs updated python-greenlet, pushed to epel-testing 20111031 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/python-greenlet-0.3.1-6.el6
  • needs updated python-eventlet, pushed to epel-testing 20111031 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/python-eventlet-0.9.16-2.el6
• openstack-keystone, Needs koji build for el6 and bodhi push
  • need python-passlib, pushed to epel-testing 20111111 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/python-passlib-1.5.3-1.el6
• python-sqlalchemy0.7
  • getting openstack to monkey patch RHEL's python-sqlalchemy-0.5 is too invasive
  • updating python-sqlalchemy in RHEL will not be possible until RHEL 6.3
  • So in the meantime this package will be added to epel
  • Package for review at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755065
  • Needs python-nose1.1 to build
    • Package for review at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755139
• python-webob1.0
  • This package will be added to epel for the same reaons as python-sqlalchemy above
  • Steve Traylen has sent a package for review https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=754848