Category Archives: Sysadmin

Barely Functional Keystone Deployment with Docker

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My eventual goal is to deploy Keystone using Kubernetes. However, I want to understand things from the lowest level on up. Since Kubernetes will be driving Docker for my deployment, I wanted to get things working for a single node Docker deployment before I move on to Kubernetes. As such, you’ll notice I took a few short cuts. Mostly, these involve configuration changes. Since I will need to use Kubernetes for deployment and configuration, I’ll postpone doing it right until I get to that layer. With that caveat, let’s begin.
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Importing a Public SSH Key

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Rex was setting up a server and wanted some help.  His hosting provider had set him up with a username and password for authentication. He wanted me to log in to the machine under his account to help out.  I didn’t want him to have to give me his password.  Rex is a smart guy, but he is not a Linux user.  He is certainly not a system administrator.  The system was CentOS.  The process was far more difficult to walk

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Bypassing Version Discovery in Keystoneauth1

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I’ve been a happy Dreamhost customer for many years.  So I was thrilled when I heard that they had upgrade Dreamcompute to Mitaka.  So, like the good Keystoner that I am, I went to test it out.  Of course, I tried to use the V3 API.   And it failed.

What?  Dreamhost wouldn’t let me down, would they?

No.  V3 works fine, it is discovery that is misconfigured.
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Reproducing an Open vSwitch Bridge Configuration

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In the previous post, I described the setup for installing FreeIPA on a VM parallel to the undercloud VM setup by Tripleo Quickstart. The network on the undercloud VM has been setup up by Ironic and Neutron to listen on a network defined for the overcloud. I want to reproduce this on a second machine that is not enrolled in the undercloud. How can I reproduce the steps?

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