A Holla out to the Kolla devs

Devstack uses Pip to install packages, which conflict with the RPM versions on my Fedora system. Since I still need to get work done, and want to run tests on Keystone running against a live database, I’ve long wondered if I should go with container based approach. Last week, I took the plunge and started messing around with Docker. I got the MySQL Fedora container to run, then found Lars Keystone container using Sqlite, and was stumped. I poked around for a way to get the two containers talking to each other, and realized that we had a project dedicated to exactly that in OpenStack: Kolla. While it did not work for me right out of a git-clone, several of the Kolla devs worked with me to get it up and running. here are my notes, distilled.

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Resize disks in a Centos 7 Install

The default layout for disks in a Centos deployment may make sense for the average use case, but not for using the machine as a Tripleo all-in-one development box. I have 500 GB of Disk space, and the default installer puts 400GB into /home and 50 GB into /. However, since most of the work here is going to be done in virtual machines, the majority of the /home space is wasted, and I found I have filled up the 50 GB partition on / on a regular basis. So, I want to remove /home and put all the space under /.

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Rippowam

Ossipee started off as OS-IPA. As it morphed into a tool for building development clusters,I realized it was more useful to split the building of the cluster from the Install and configuration of the application on that cluster. To install IPA and OpenStack, and integrate them together, we now use an ansible-playbook called Rippowam.

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