[PKG-Openstack-devel] Bug#883723: openstack-deploy: undocumented

[Wouter Verhelst]

Package: openstack-deploy
Version: 0.15
Severity: minor

After running "openstack-deploy all-in-one", I find that I do have
something resembling a working openstack installation. Thanks for that!

Unfortunately, however, after all that has happened, one sits there with
a "now what" feeling:

- The installation asks for a number of things. What do these things
  mean? (just hitting "enter" to everything *seems* to work, except for
  the "keystone endpoint IP, for which I just entered 127.0.0.1 in this
  test environment).
- Something is running, but where? (localhost:80, it turns out, with
  non-SSL HTTP redirected to its SSL version)
- After fiddling with apache SSL settings so that those work (this was
  on a pristine VM to test with), I need to log on. What with? (the
  value of RC_KEYSTONE_ADMINPASS in /root/osinstallrc, it turns out)

I realize that the goal of openstack-deploy is probably to support
openstack-tempest-ci rather than to support users; but since it's
packaged in Debian, and since it seems to have several modes, all of
which should support larger installations too, it seems like a prime
candidate for "look at this if you want to build your own cloud"

If only it were a bit better documented.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unreleased'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, m68k, arm64

Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=nl_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nl_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=nl_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages openstack-deploy depends on:
ii  ipcalc                 0.41-5
pn  openstack-pkg-tools    <none>
pn  python-keystoneclient  <none>

openstack-deploy recommends no packages.

openstack-deploy suggests no packages.