Saturday, March 05, 2016

Upgrades to the Lab and infrastructure skill set

Have been thinking that I need to improve my "full stack" skills.  I have followed Martin for yours and his recent article has confirmed that I am probably moving in the right direction.

http://martinfowler.com/bliki/InfrastructureAsCode.html

So far...Mirantis Fuel has been helping me with the OS deploys.  In this new world of dev-ops,  I am thinking I need to add to programming capabilities by learning something like Ansible or Saltstack.  Also, it looks like some knowledge of GO would be helpful.

As for the lab, I recently had some issues with the RAID configuration on of my nodes.  NEVER EVER pull a drive out while the machine is running...stupid move.  Now - I am having an issue with one of the network cards on my aging Dell desktop that i am using as the Fuel node.  Decided to get 2 more Dell 610's to host my Controller and Cinder nodes.  Now the entire infrastructure will be on 610s and I should be able to get some consistency in setup as far as BIOS, PXE settings and RAID configuration.

Will up upgrading to Mirantis Fuel 8 in the new setup.  I am hoping I an re-use most of the Cisco configuration for the new setup.


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