Adventures of a Small Time OpenStack Sysadmin Chapter 050 - Mistral and Masakari Doubleheader

Adventures of a Small Time OpenStack Sysadmin relate the experience of converting a small VMware cluster into two small OpenStack clusters, and the adventures and friends I made along the way.

Adventures of a Small Time OpenStack Sysadmin Chapter 050 - Mistral and Masakari Doubleheader

Intro

This will be a short and boring blog post; sorry in advance.  I installed Mistral and created some test and demonstration workbooks and it works great and is well documented, but actually implementing will take some time to experiment.  As for Masakari, its essentially undocumented and I don't have substantial enough resources to make use of it, although I like the idea and want to implement it "eventually" when I have the spare time.

Mistral

https://docs.openstack.org/mistral/yoga/

I have this working, and it looks terribly useful, but I don't have any live applications for it at this time.

I have a very simple "hello" demo at this GitLab link:

https://gitlab.com/SpringCitySolutionsLLC/openstack-scripts/-/tree/master/demos/mistral/hello

Masakari

Masakari Docs Page

https://docs.openstack.org/masakari/yoga/

Kolla-Ansible Deployment Configuration Reference for Masakari

https://docs.openstack.org/kolla-ansible/yoga/reference/compute/masakari-guide.html

It seems very difficult to find documentation for how to use Masakari. It seemed to install successfully; what do I do next? My clusters are very small so failover will probably not work anyway for capacity reasons. I will keep it around in hopes I get to use it someday.

Tomorrow, why I'm not using most of the *aaS OpenStack offerings.

Stay tuned for the next chapter!