2018-02-16
Openstack networking is often a wondrous, complex and perplexing beast to the uninitiated. This post is my attempt to dissect a portion of the Openstack networking stack to figure out how it works. There will be a bit of history, code, and theory - something for everyone.
When you start to explore Openstack, you quickly realise that it is extremely flexible in the range of technologies and vendor specific physical equipment it supports - especially when it comes to networking.
2018-01-21
1. Opening it up to the Masses If you are using Red Hat Openstack, then you have already made the decision to empower your employees with the ability to manage and operate their own virtualization compute and storage environments.
But before you can give any old John Smith this superpower, you need to manage and restrict the level of access he has, as well as logically separating your infrastructure into isolated projects.
2018-01-16
0. Background As part of my day job, I help to manage a large Openstack cluster with a large number of virtual instances running on physical infrastructure. Things often go wrong, and sometimes you have to get creative to solve them.
Today, someone reported that a particular instance had failed catastrophically (due to a layer 8 malfunction), and could not be recovered. We decided it would be easier to rebuild a new instance rather than try and fix the instance (it was well and truly borked).