OpenStack

OpenStack

OpenStack consists of a number services for running IaaS clouds. They are the Object Store (Swift), Compute (Nova) and Image (Glance) services.

This page tracks Fedora Cloud SIG's effort to include OpenStack packages in Fedora.

Packages

• openstack-swift
• openstack-glance
• python-novaclient

Package Reviews

• openstack-swift (done)
• openstack-nova
• openstack-glance (done)
• python-novaclient (done)

Test Repo

A yum repository with Fedora 16 test packages for Nova and Glance is available here

See Getting started with OpenStack Nova for details on how to try out the packages from this repo.

To Do

Some short term TODO items related to Nova and Glance packaging. When the package is added, these should be tracked in bugzilla.

1. Build minimal Fedora images for people to use when testing Nova
2. Make Nova add the appropriate iptables rules so that it works with Fedora's default firewall configuration
3. Send these trivial patches to upstream Nova
4. Request that python-eventlet be updated in Fedora to the latest upstream which contains the greenpipe fix
5. Send the python-migrate fix upstream and request that it be cherry-picked into the Fedora package
6. Get the correct version of python-xattr included in Fedora so that glance image caching can be used
7. Figure out what to do about ajaxterm
8. SELinux policy
9. uidgid reservation for swift, glance and nova
10. logrotate config for glance
11. no-manual-page-for-binary warnings
12. Switch from sysvinit scripts to systemd units
13. File bugs with upstream requesting that releases include a license file in their distributions
14. python-novaclient doesn't need %setup -n anymore

To Package

1. python-nova-adminclient - a Python library for Nova's admin API
2. noVNC - a HTML5 VNC client
3. openstack-dashboard - self service web UI for OpenStack
4. openstack-melange - network information service (will be part of openstack-nova?)
5. openstack-quantum - network connectivity service
6. openstack-reddwarf - database as a service (will be part of openstack-nova?
7. openstack-keystone - identity service
8. openstack-burrow - message queue

Notes

• It may be be useful to compare OpenStack's packaging on other distributions. See the OpenStack Packaging wiki