OpenStack Grizzly Available on FutureGrid


For several weeks we have experimented with OpenStack Grizzly. Based on our good experience, we now make it available to FutureGrid users.

OpenStack Grizzly is installed currently on Sierra. We expect it to become available on India within the next couple of weeks. We intend to decommission OpenStack Essex on India at the latest by Sept 30 or earlier if we notice that most users have transitioned to Grizzly. After Sept 30 we are transitioning over. The transition phase may take a while.

Our deployment includes the following improvements:

  • Support of FutureGrid projects as OpenStack tenants. Each project is represented in OpenStack as its own tenant. It is possible to charge VMs to different tenants.

  • Support of the OpenStack client API and CLI. You can use the native OpenStack client APIs as well as the command line tools. You are not limited to the euca2ools.

  • SSL support of the Keystone client. For increased security keystone has been deployed with SSL. Grizzly has been enhanced with the ability to reset your password, and internally MySQL access became safer through a new service called "nova-conductor." To support these new features we have elected to separate the portal password from the password used for authentication to horizon.

  • Support for enhanced Quota Management. Grizzly has better quota management which we will work on while integrating it into our sophisticated Futuregrid metrics system. This work is ongoing.

  • New Volume Management. Nova volume became Cinder volume and it works well.

  • Stability. We observed increased stability.

  • Easy creation of novarc files via FutureGrid Cloudmesh. As on FutureGrid you may deal with many Clouds and projects/tenants we are giving you access to an early version of our cloudmesh rc file generator that allows you to generate a novarc file from a single yaml file.

OpenStack is evolving rapidly and there are many more interesting features that we plan to exploit.  Please feel free to contact us at http://archive.futuregrid.org/help.

If you would like to participate in any of our code developments, please let us know. We are working on bare metal provisioning and cloud metrics and still look for volunteers to join us.

The manual for using Grizzly on FutureGrid can be found at:

 
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