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

[Wouter Verhelst]

On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 11:03:38AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> Control: severity -1 normal
> Control: retitle -1 openstack-deploy: incomplete, undocumented
> 
> On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 10:03:57AM +0100, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> > Hi Wouter,
> > 
> > On 12/06/2017 09:24 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > > 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!
> > 
> > Yes, this was the initial goal, but no, after you've run the script, you
> > *don't* have a working installation.
> 
> Oh, okay. I did say "resembling", mostly because I hadn't had a chance
> of testing it out yet, in much detail.
> 
> That's possibly also something that should be documented. The script
> already does a great deal and gets you partway there; it's fine if that
> doesn't yet do everything, but then at least a hint in the documentation
> as to what it doesn't do yet in some reasonable detail, with a pointer to
> the upstream bits of documentation that should be followed, would be
> useful.

Looking at things more closely, I find that:

- The installed services are a strict superset of the "compute starter
  kit" as defined on
  https://www.openstack.org/software/sample-configs#compute-starter-kit
  (which contains nova, glance, keystone, and neutron), and therefore
  should already have basic functionality of the "let's see how this
  works" type.
- Uploading the image downloaded from
  http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/openstack/current/debian-9.2.2-20171105-openstack-amd64.qcow2
  through the webinterface seems to work.
- Creating a network through the webinterface seems to work.
- Creating a "flavor" through the webinterface seems to work.
- After doing all that, I can go through the "Launch instance" wizard in
  the webinterface. It accepts my choices; but when it gets around to
  actually trying to spawn the VM, the machine becomes unresponsive.
  Once it starts being responsive again, it says "No valid host was
  found. There are not enough hosts available." It's not clear to my
  what exactly went wrong; this may be fixed by some configuration, or
  it may not. At this point, I can't remove the instance anymore either,
  with a "CSRF token missing or incorrect" error message.

It feels like the system is fairly close to a working setup, though.

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