MilliwaysStack

We want to run an OpenStack experiment

The grander idea

We want to try out an installation of OpenStack to give people around milliways experience with running (on).

From an unnamed source we got 9 HPE servers. We will use 8 of them to run OpenStack on it. Storage is on a seperate machine.

MVP

The MVP would be:

• Kubernetes / docker
• object storage
• file systems
• Networking
• Virtual machines
• Firewalling
• Databases - mariaDB / PostgreSQL
• Someone something redis I guess
• container registry

Maybe we can get those running for 39c3

e-MVP

The extended MVP would be:

• functional Monitoring & alerting
• autoscaling
• integration into milliways identity & access management authentik
• logging & alerting

the software stack explained

OpenStack is a cloud framework stack that offeres AWS / Azure / GC alike services.

Most documentation is availible for Ubuntu & Red Hat. On the longer term an installation under NixOS might be feasable.

Asset List

• 10 x HPE proliant DL380 Gen 8
  • 2 x E5-2620 v3 2,4GHz
  • 384GB ram
  • without hard drives but has 2,5" bays
    • no drive sleds/brackets available, only blanks
  • 9 x slide rails
• 3 Switches
  • 2 x Dell PowerConnect 7048R-RA
  • 1 x Cisco 3560e
• 1 Rack
  • 47U
  • 950mm external depth
    • 915mm internal depth
• 1 Dell PowerEdge 710 server as storage
  • 6 x 3,5" bays
    • 4 x 3,5" drive sleds/brackts
    • 2 x 3,5" drive blanks
  • no rails