I wanted to share a short summary of the discussions happened around the Ceph integration (in TripleO) at the OpenStack PTG.
Together with John Fulton and Guillaume Abrioux (and after PTG, Sebastien Han) we put some thought into how to make the Ceph container images and ceph-ansible releases fit better the OpenStack model; the container images and ceph-ansible are in fact loosely coupled (not all versions of the container images work …
One of the goals for the TripleO Pike release was to introduce ceph-ansible as an alternative to puppet-ceph for the deployment of Ceph.
More specifically, to put operators in control of the playbook execution as if they were launching ceph-ansible from the commandline, except it would be Heat starting ceph-ansible at the right time during the overcloud deployment.
This demanded for some changes in different tools used by TripleO and went through a pretty long …
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