The document discusses Chef for OpenStack, an open-source configuration management framework aimed at automating the deployment and management of OpenStack environments. It includes information on the project's architecture, community involvement, requirements, deployment examples, and an overview of supported OpenStack versions (Grizzly, Havana, Icehouse). Additionally, it outlines the roadmap for future enhancements and events related to OpenStack and Chef communities.

2. Chef for OpenStack
Matt Ray & JJ Asghar
OSCON
July 24, 2014

3. Introductions
• Matt Ray
• Director of Partner
Engineering
• matt@getchef.com
• mattray GitHub|IRC|Twitter

4. Introductions
• JJ Asghar
• Sr. Partner Engineer
• jj@getchef.com
• jjasghar GitHub and Twitter
• j^2 on IRC

5. Chef
•Open Source configuration management
and systems automation framework
•Infrastructure as Code, written in Ruby
•Abstractions of Resources on the
systems
•Client/server model over REST APIs
•Huge, vibrant community of contributors
™

6. OpenStack Controls Compute, Storage & Networking

7. Architecture

8. Architecture

9. Overview & Current Status of
Chef for OpenStack

10. Chef for OpenStack: Project
• Community around the automated deployment and
management of OpenStack
• Reduce fragmentation and increase collaboration
• Deploying OpenStack is not "Secret Sauce"
• Project, not a 'Product'
• Apache 2 License

11. Community
• #openstack-chef on irc.freenode.net
• groups.google.com/group/opscode-chef-openstack
• Google Hangout weekly status meetings (Monday
11am EST)
• @chefopenstack
• Stackalytics (stackforge->chef-group)

12. Who's Involved?
• AT&T
• Bluebox
• Chef
• Dell
• DreamHost
• HP
• IBM
• Korea Telecom
• Rackspace
• SUSE
• and many more

14. Chef Requirements
• Chef 11
• Ruby 1.9.x
• Foodcritic, Rubocop, ChefSpec for
testing
• attribute-driven by Environments
• platform logic in attributes
• currently packages-only installation

15. StackForge: Cookbooks
• "Official" OpenStack repositories
•github.com/stackforge/cookbook-openstack-*
•gated by review.openstack.org
• OpenStack services for Grizzly, Havana and Icehouse cookbooks
•block-storage, common, compute, dashboard, data-processing,
database, identity, image, network, object-storage, orchestration,
telemetry
• Operational support cookbooks
•ceph, client, integration-testing, ops-database, ops-messaging

16. Launchpad
• Blueprints
•https://blueprints.launchpad.net/
openstack-chef
• Bugs
•https://bugs.launchpad.net/
openstack-chef

17. StackForge: Deployment
• Chef repository for deploying Grizzly, Havana, or Icehouse
•example Environments and Roles
•example "All-in-One" Vagrant deployment
•github.com/stackforge/openstack-chef-repo
• Gated by review.openstack.org
•More single and multi-node testing coming

18. Reference Implementation
• Deployment examples in documentation
•All-in-One Compute
•Single Controller + N Compute
•more coming
• Will provide example HA configurations
• Operations outside of scope of core repository
•logging, monitoring, provisioning

19. docs.getchef.com/
openstack.html

20. Documentation
• docs.getchef.com/openstack.html
•Architecture
•Deployment Prerequisites
•Installation
•Development
•Cookbooks and Repositories
•Example Deployments
• github.com/opscode/chef-docs
•Creative Commons, no CLA required

21. Example Deployments
• Vagrant "All-in-One" for development/testing
•nova-network or Neutron
•Ubuntu 12.04 or CentOS 6.5
• Developer lab deployment "1+N"
•Single controller, N compute boxes
•5 boxes, consumer-grade hardware

22. StackForge: Grizzly Status
• branch ‘stable/grizzly’
• Operating Systems: Ubuntu 12.04, SLES 11 SP2
• Databases: MySQL, SQLite (testing)
• Messaging: RabbitMQ
• Compute: KVM, LXC, Qemu
• Network: Nova + Quantum (Open vSwitch)
• Block Storage: LVM
• Object Storage: Swift
• Dashboard: Apache or Nginx

23. StackForge: Havana Status
• branch ‘stable/havana’
• Operating Systems: Ubuntu 12.04, SLES 11 SP3, RHEL 6
• Databases: DB2, MySQL, SQLite (testing)
• Messaging: Qpid, RabbitMQ
• Compute: KVM, LXC, QEMU
• Network: Nova, Neutron (Open vSwitch)
• Block Storage: LVM, NetApp, others
• Object Storage: Swift
• Dashboard: Apache or Nginx

24. StackForge: Icehouse Status
• branch ‘master’
• Operating Systems: Ubuntu 12.04/14.04, SLES 11 SP3, RHEL 6
• Databases: DB2, MySQL Postgres, SQLite (testing)
• Messaging: Qpid, RabbitMQ
• Compute: KVM, LXC, QEMU
• Network: Nova, Neutron (Open vSwitch)
• Block Storage: LVM, NetApp, others
• Object Storage: Swift
• Dashboard: Apache or Nginx

25. StackForge: Roadmap
• branching for Juno (tomorrow?)
•'master' move to ‘stable/icehouse’
•Havana available in ‘stable/havana'
•Grizzly available in ‘stable/grizzly'
• More contributors!

26. StackForge: Roadmap
• Operating Systems: Debian
• Compute: Baremetal, Docker, ESX,
Hyper-V, Xen
• Network: NSX, OpenDaylight
• Block Storage: Ceph
• Object Storage: Ceph
• Source builds via Omnibus

27. OpenStack Ops Mid-Cycle Meetup
• Operators mini summit
• August 25-26, San Antonio TX
• http://www.eventbrite.com/e/
openstack-ops-mid-cycle-meetup-
tickets-12149171499

28. Chef Community Summit
• Developer/Community unconference
• October 2 & 3 in Seattle, WA

29. OpenStack Summit

30. knife-openstack

31. Available openstack subcommands: (for details, knife SUB-COMMAND --help)!
!
** OPENSTACK COMMANDS **!
knife openstack flavor list (options)!
knife openstack group list (options)!
knife openstack image list (options)!
knife openstack network list (options)!
knife openstack server create (options)!
knife openstack server delete INSTANCEID [INSTANCEID] (options)!
knife openstack server list (options)!
knife openstack server show (options)
$ knife openstack

32. Name ID Virtual CPUs RAM Disk !
m1.large 4 4 8192 MB 80 GB !
m1.medium 3 2 4096 MB 40 GB !
m1.small 2 1 2048 MB 20 GB !
m1.tiny 1 1 512 MB 10 GB !
m1.xlarge 5 8 16384 MB 160 GB
$ knife openstack flavor list

33. Name Protocol From To CIDR Description!
default tcp 22 22 0.0.0.0/0 default!
default icmp -1 -1 0.0.0.0/0 default!
haproxy tcp 22002 22002 0.0.0.0/0 22022!
$ knife openstack group list

34. Name ID Snapshot!
centos-6.5 68555833-8497-4d14-88ca-c9062e25f14b no !
coreos 83d37ea5-d9ae-44cd-9110-d4d39ad997ce no !
fedora-19 9add7e14-25e3-41d8-963a-ca744d081f2e no !
fedora-20 acb6eba5-226a-4ed5-8db6-33a6fd8cf20d no !
freebsd-10.0 0e270df7-1a02-4e91-9fc3-6f5311c58193 no !
ubuntu-12.04 ce268db5-ceda-4a90-93c8-3b987ac3705f no !
ubuntu-14.04 4a4f85bf-f164-4e54-83d8-8b2e7d0712b2 no !
Windows Server 2012 64e7cba7-7a50-443f-8fa6-a065406e0b04 no !
$ knife openstack image list

35. Name ID Tenant Shared!
external 06dc9d5a-f55a-410d-a7fd-4c7cb34ad927 5da25cc3853f4c54850898f9614c20bb true !
internal ba0fdd03-72b5-41eb-bb67-fef437fd6cb4 5da25cc3853f4c54850898f9614c20bb true
$ knife openstack network list

36. Name Instance ID Public IP Private IP Flavor Image Keypair State!
os-45539345723309377 08f2d9f7-eeb0-45e7-8562-63aed8f096cc 50.56.12.229 2 737969f8-6091-4896-ba9c-f3cf63bd25c5 rs-demo active!
os-9924426691020416 43c6bbf5-b397-4986-8aec-392d955ce5b1 50.56.12.232 2 737969f8-6091-4896-ba9c-f3cf63bd25c5 rs-demo active!
os-553425714287088 c1b9e3df-e566-4378-8a52-ed998b516608 50.56.12.230 2 737969f8-6091-4896-ba9c-f3cf63bd25c5 rs-demo active!
os-07459550287500682 f3edc5da-ef99-4acb-a141-d957e09809e3 50.56.12.231 2 737969f8-6091-4896-ba9c-f3cf63bd25c5 rs-demo active
$ knife openstack server list

37. $ knife openstack server create -a -f 2 -I 737969f8-6091-4896-ba9c-f3cf63bd25c5 -S rs-demo -i ~/.ssh/rs-demo.pem -x ubuntu -r "role[base]"!
Instance Name: os-45539345723309377!
Instance ID: 08f2d9f7-eeb0-45e7-8562-63aed8f096cc!
!
Waiting for server.........!
Flavor: 2!
Image: 737969f8-6091-4896-ba9c-f3cf63bd25c5!
SSH Identity File: /Users/mray/.ssh/rs-demo.pem!
SSH Keypair: rs-demo!
Public IP Address: 10.241.0.12!
Floating IP Address: 50.56.12.229!
Waiting for sshd.....done!
Bootstrapping Chef on 50.56.12.229!
Instance Name: os-45539345723309377!
Instance ID: 08f2d9f7-eeb0-45e7-8562-63aed8f096cc!
Flavor: 2!
Image: 737969f8-6091-4896-ba9c-f3cf63bd25c5!
SSH Keypair: rs-demo!
Public IP Address: 50.56.12.229!
Environment: _default!
Run List: role[base]!
knife openstack server create

38. knife openstack server create

39. knife openstack Compatibility
• Uses the OpenStack API
• Diablo, Essex, Folsom, Grizzly, Havana, Icehouse, trunk
• BlueBox
• Cloudscaling
• Crowbar
• DreamHost
• IBM
• MetaCloud
• Nebula
• Piston
• Rackspace Private Cloud

40. knife openstack Resources
• knife openstack --help
• docs.getchef.com/
plugin_knife_openstack.html
• github.com/opscode/knife-openstack
• github.com/opscode/knife-openstack/
issues

41. knife openstack Roadmap
• Continuous Integration for Chef-
supported knife plugins soon
•Testing against multiple
deployments
• 1.0.0: common knife-cloud base class
• 1.1.0: Network enhancements
• 1.2.0 guid cleanup, other niceties

42. Test Kitchen

43. Test Kitchen
• Integration tool for developing and testing
infrastructure code and software on isolated target
platforms
• Integration test platform for your cookbooks on all the
supported platforms with virtual machines
• https://github.com/test-kitchen/kitchen-openstack

44. driver:!
name: openstack!
openstack_username: [YOUR OPENSTACK USERNAME]!
openstack_api_key: [YOUR OPENSTACK API KEY]!
openstack_auth_url: [YOUR OPENSTACK AUTH URL]!
require_chef_omnibus: latest!
image_ref: [SERVER IMAGE ID]!
flavor_ref: [SERVER FLAVOR ID]
Test Kitchen: kitchen.yml

46. Chef Metal
• Chef recipes for deploying
infrastructure
• Libraries for repeatably creating
machines and deployments with
Chef primitives
• Bootstrappers for many
infrastructure types

47. Chef Metal: Providers
• Cloud
• Digital Ocean, EC2, Fog, OpenStack
• Virtualization
• Vagrant (VirtualBox, Fusion), VSphere
• Containers
• Docker & LXC
• SSH
• PXE in progress

48. Chef Metal: Example Recipe

49. Thanks!
Any questions?
Matt Ray
matt@getchef.com
@mattray