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 …

UPDATE (June 2013): this post has been published on the RDO site and is now maintained there.

Heat provides orchestration of composite cloud applications using the CloudFormation API and templates; it is an incubated project of OpenStack. Its development cycle is to be Integrated in Havana and follow the full OpenStack release process. I want to go trough the steps needed to install and configure it as the official documentation is still scarce on the …