Automation

TL;DR: https://gist.github.com/learnitall/80d5474045a019eba30c3738bd3c57ca#file-upgrade_centos_8-yml There’s the classic story of a teenager becoming dissapointed when they realize their first car is going to be a piece of shit. It makes sense: new drivers, kids especially, are more likely to get into an accident so why give them a super fancy car if it’s going to be banged-up anyway? That same motif ironically also applied to my first server. I’m fortuante enough to have relatives in ’the business’ who donated some equipment to help me get started in creating my own home development lab, but like my first car, the equipment isn’t brand new and doesn’t have all the bells and whistles found in a modern datacenter....

This post will be continually updated as I submit more bug reports and change requests. Last updated on: July 10th, 2020 The goal of this post is not to be toxic or hurtful in any way- I have a ton of respect for the OpenStack team and all the work they do to put together such a large project all in the name of open and free software. But damn, my experience with OpenStack Ansible was a nightmare....

Like most humans my age, I make a sh*t load of mistakes. I’m a young adult making his way through the world and it takes time to become competent enough to, for instance, remember to feed yourself. In particular though, through the course of setting up a development OpenStack cluster I’ve had to start over quite a few times. In my defense, it takes a hot minute to learn the ins-and-outs of OpenStack and sometimes a hard reset is all you need… or at least a hard reset is what you’re forced to do when you’ve, uh, messed up that bad....