Assigning Operator Privileges for Domain Users in Openstack

Note that this article contains some content that I’ve censored, since I used my personal environment as an example. TL;DR: To give a user admin priviliges, you have to assign them the admin role and assign them to a project entitled admin. Giving a domain user in OpenStack the role of domain operator/admin took me a second to figure out, so I thought I’d walk through my lessons learned here in a quick post....

July 27, 2020 · 6 min · Ryan Drew

I Tried OpenStack Ansible and Had a Bad Time. Here's Why.

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....

July 8, 2020 · 16 min · Ryan Drew

OSA: Preparing Target Hosts with Ansible Playbooks

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....

July 7, 2020 · 8 min · Ryan Drew