May 2017 – Made by Mikal

Configuring docker to use rexray and Ceph for persistent storage

Post author:mikal
Post published:May 29, 2017
Post category:Docker

For various reasons I wanted to play with docker containers backed by persistent Ceph storage. rexray seemed like the way to do that, so here are my notes on getting that working... First off, I needed to install rexray: root@labosa:~/rexray# curl -sSL https://dl.bintray.com/emccode/rexray/install | sh Selecting previously unselected package rexray. (Reading database ... 177547 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack rexray_0.9.0-1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking rexray (0.9.0-1) ... Setting up rexray (0.9.0-1) ... rexray has been installed to /usr/bin/rexray REX-Ray ------- Binary: /usr/bin/rexray Flavor: client+agent+controller SemVer: 0.9.0 OsArch: Linux-x86_64 Branch: v0.9.0 Commit: 2a7458dd90a79c673463e14094377baf9fc8695e Formed: Thu, 04 May 2017 07:38:11 AEST libStorage ---------- SemVer: 0.6.0 OsArch: Linux-x86_64 Branch: v0.9.0 Commit: fa055d6da595602715bdfd5541b4aa6d4dcbcbd9 Formed: Thu, 04 May 2017 07:36:11 AEST Which is of course horrid. What that script seems to have done is install a deb'd version of rexray based on an alien'd package: root@labosa:~/rexray# dpkg -s rexray Package: rexray Status: install ok installed Priority: extra Section: alien Installed-Size: 36140 Maintainer: Travis CI User <travis@testing-gce-7fbf00fc-f7cd-4e37-a584-810c64fdeeb1> Architecture: amd64 Version: 0.9.0-1 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2) Description: Tool for managing remote & local storage. A guest based storage introspection tool that allows local visibility and management from cloud and storage platforms. . (Converted from a rpm…

So you want to setup a Ceph dev environment using OSA

Post author:mikal
Post published:May 28, 2017
Post category:OpenStack

Support for installing and configuring Ceph was added to openstack-ansible in Ocata, so now that I have a need for a Ceph development environment it seems logical that I would build it by building an openstack-ansible Ocata AIO. There were a few gotchas there, so I want to explain the process I used. First off, Ceph is enabled in an openstack-ansible AIO using a thing I've never seen before called a "Scenario". Basically this means that you need to export an environment variable called "SCENARIO" before running the AIO install. Something like this will do the trick?L: export SCENARIO=ceph Next you need to set the global pg_num in the ceph role or the install will fail. I did that with this patch: --- /etc/ansible/roles/ceph.ceph-common/defaults/main.yml 2017-05-26 08:55:07.803635173 +1000 +++ /etc/ansible/roles/ceph.ceph-common/defaults/main.yml 2017-05-26 08:58:30.417019878 +1000 @@ -338,7 +338,9 @@ # foo: 1234 # bar: 5678 # -ceph_conf_overrides: {} +ceph_conf_overrides: + global: + osd_pool_default_pg_num: 8 ############# @@ -373,4 +375,4 @@ # Set this to true to enable File access via NFS. Requires an MDS role. nfs_file_gw: true # Set this to true to enable Object access via NFS. Requires an RGW role. -nfs_obj_gw: false \ No newline at end of file +nfs_obj_gw: false That…

The Collapsing Empire

Post author:mikal
Post published:May 19, 2017
Post category:Book

This is a fun fast read, as is everything by Mr Scalzi. The basic premise here is that of a set of interdependent colonies that are about to lose their ability to trade with each other, and are therefore doomed. Oh, except they don't know that and are busy having petty trade wars instead. It isn't a super intellectual read, but it is fun and does leave me wanting to know what happens to the empire...

Python3 venvs for people who are old and grumpy

Post author:mikal
Post published:May 13, 2017
Post category:Python

I've been using virtualenvwrapper to make venvs for python2 for probably six or so years. I know it, and understand it. Now some bad man (hi Ramon!) is making me do python3, and virtualenvwrapper just isn't a thing over there as best as I can tell. So how do I make a venv? Its really not too bad... First, install the dependencies: git clone git://github.com/yyuu/pyenv.git .pyenv echo 'export PYENV_ROOT="$HOME/.pyenv"' >> ~/.bashrc echo 'export PATH="$PYENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc echo 'eval "$(pyenv init -)"' >> ~/.bashrc git clone https://github.com/yyuu/pyenv-virtualenv.git ~/.pyenv/plugins/pyenv-virtualenv source ~/.bashrc Now to make a venv, do something like this (in this case, infrasot is the name of the venv): mkdir -p ~/.virtualenvs/pyenv-infrasot cd ~/.virtualenvs/pyenv-infrasot pyenv virtualenv system infrasot You can see your installed venvs like this: $ pyenv versions * system (set by /home/user/.pyenv/version) infrasot Where system is the system installed python, and not a venv. To activate and deactivate the venv, do this: $ pyenv activate infrasot $ ... stuff you're doing ... $ pvenv deactivate I'll probably write wrappers at some point so that this looks like virtualenvwrapper, but its good enough for now.

Things I read today: the best description I’ve seen of metadata routing in neutron

Post author:mikal
Post published:May 8, 2017
Post category:OpenStack

I happened upon a thread about OVN's proposal for how to handle nova metadata traffic, which linked to this very good Suse blog post about how metadata traffic is routed in neutron. I'm just adding the link here because I think it will be useful to others. The OVN proposal is also an interesting read.