[Airship-discuss] Airship installation

[valleru at cbio.mskcc.org]

Thanks a lot Rodolfo,

Thats promising to hear.

I will try my best to attend the design calls, but unfortunately i have my teams weekly meeting at the same time on Thursdays.
I will see if i can join any other meetings, or track the progress of Airship 2 features.

Regards,
Lohit

On May 2, 2019, 4:38 PM -0500, PACHECO, RODOLFO J <rp2723 at att.com>, wrote:
> Lohit
>
> You will be glad to know the direction of Airship for the next release includes integration with projects such as cluster-api, baremetal-operator and ironic.
> Part of the evolution takes us in a direction where support of centos is  mostly a given.
>
> From what you describe it sounds as if you could definitely take advantage of what Airship provides.
>
> We encourage you to start attending our Airship design calls on Thursday’s 11 EST or the rest of our meetings listed here  (https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Airship#Get_in_Touch)
>
> We will be starting to focus on Airship 2,.0 features, and I feel that we are going in a direction you would agree with and benefit from.
>
> Regards
>
> Rodolfo Pacheco
>
> Home/Office 732 5337671
>
> From: "valleru at cbio.mskcc.org" <valleru at cbio.mskcc.org>
> Date: Thursday, May 2, 2019 at 3:31 PM
> To: Evgeny L <eli at mirantis.com>
> Cc: "airship-discuss at lists.airshipit.org" <airship-discuss at lists.airshipit.org>
> Subject: Re: [Airship-discuss] Airship installation
>
> Thank you.
> The reason i am asking is because, my goals of using Airship goes much beyond using it just for Openstack.
>
> We are a full CentOS7 HPC cluster with about 800 servers/nodes working together as a supercomputer.
>
> Currently,
> For baremetal/VM deployment- i use Foreman together with Hiera and various yaml files/tags/facts that i get for different servers. Once deployed - puppet then configures the OS on baremetal nodes depending on the same tags/facts/yaml files from Hiera.
>
> I see that - Airship uses a similar declarative design with yaml but deploys services on containers.
>
> My goal was to use Airship and see if i can deploy both baremetal servers and openstack/VMs using the same yaml files.
> It would thus be more like Infrastructure as a code.
>
> I am not sure if this would be the correct approach, or if i have to deploy Openstack and instead use Openstack Ironic to deploy the baremetal nodes.
> The issue with the Openstack Ironic approach is that i want to use the same declarative yaml design that airship uses to deploy ironic nodes too, and i am not sure how much would that be possible.
> Also - I want to use the same approach to deploy instances on public cloud too, so may be using Openstack Ironic would be a better way to go.
>
> If it is currently not possible to do any of the above -  I would like to know, if there is way that i could get involved in future road-maps and see if this could be one of the directions that airship can help me.
>
> Also - would it be too difficult for me to try if Airship can work with MAAS and deploy CentOS7 instead of Ubuntu?
>
> Regards,
> Lohit
>
> On May 2, 2019, 4:00 PM -0500, Evgeny L <eli at mirantis.com>, wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > As of now we do not have an official way to run Airship on CentOS7, however there is an ongoing collaboration with Suse to add a multi-os support for both OSH & Airship.
> > This work should make it easier to add other operating systems in the future if there is an interest and support from the community.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 2:47 PM <valleru at cbio.mskcc.org> wrote:
> > > Hello Everyone,
> > >
> > > I have tried researching as much as possible within the documentation - but is Airship only available to install only on Ubuntu as of now?
> > >
> > > Can i get it working on CentOS7 VM?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Lohit
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