Cloudlet on ubuntu 16.04

tbharath91 2018-01-19 15:07:18 UTC #1

Hi,

I am trying to setup cloudlet locally. But in the github README it was recommended to use only ubuntu 1404 and moreover it seems if we run cloudlet inside a VM, it doesn't work. Do we have any workaround? Or do we have cloudlet packages supporting ubuntu 16.04?

teiszler 2018-01-19 16:04:45 UTC #2

@tbharath91,

Currently the elijah-openstack project is bound to the OpenStack Kilo version. Kilo is not supported beyond 14.04 which is why we are also bound to it. We are working to port the OpenStack++ code to a newer version of OpenStack (Newton/Pike) which does support 16.04. There is still some testing to do to ensure that everything is working as we need to change to use neutron networking instead of the legacy nova networking, but we should hopefully be there soon.

You should however be able to run the Python command-line tools that are part of the elijah-provisioning repository in both 14.04 and 16.04. This code sits below the OpenStack integration layer and has the same functionality that is available in elijah-openstack (only without the hooks into the OpenStack framework).

Regards,
Tom

zetelight 2018-05-15 20:23:37 UTC #3

Hi all, I'm sorry to ask a naive question but I'd like to double-check my understanding here.
Since @teiszler said "Currently the elijah-openstack project is bound to the OpenStack Kilo version", any latest version of OpenStack, such as Queens, will not be supported either. Am I right?
I am an absolute beginner and I cannot use DevStack(it removed the kilo branch), and Kilo release is no longer supported by the community, which means I cannot find the official installation guide, so it really takes time to install OpenStack Kilo in 2018.
Thank you for your patience and understanding!
Best,
Adam

teiszler 2018-05-16 16:20:01 UTC #4

@zetelight,

You are correct. The OpenStack++ currently only works with OpenStack Kilo and devstack no longer supports Kilo. However, you needn't install it manually. I already went through the pain of distilling the Kilo installation guide into a set of Ansible tasks and so the playbook included in the elijah-openstack repository will install elijah-provisioning, OpenStack Kilo, and the OpenStack++ extensions. The README of the elijah-openstack repo has steps to perform the installation.

Hope this helps,
Tom