The document summarizes a meeting that was held to plan the roadmap for the Chef for OpenStack community for the Grizzly release. Key points discussed included the attendees, resources being used like GitHub repos and IRC channels, licensing, cookbook goals, the initial osops release focusing on Ubuntu and KVM/Nova network, and plans to expand support for additional operating systems, databases, hypervisors, OpenStack services and configurations. The roadmap also covered continued development of knife-openstack and providing a status update at the Fall 2013 OpenStack Summit.

1. Chef for OpenStack Grizzly Roadmap
OpenStack Summit April 2013
Matt Ray
Opscode
On the last day of the Spring 2013 Summit we gathered to plan the roadmap for the Chef for OpenStack community.

2. Who was there
• AT&T
• Dell
• DreamHost
• HubSpot
• KT
• Midokura
• Opscode
• Rackspace
• SUSE
There had been several days of conversations, these companies were all represented in the meeting. Missing: eNovance, HP, IBM,
KIO, Mirantis

3. Where
• #openstack-chef on irc.freenode.net
• groups.google.com/group/opscode-chef-
openstack
• github.com/mattray/openstack-chef-docs
• @chefopenstack
The resources we're using

4. Licensing
• Apache 2
• Opscode CLA/CCLA required
• http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/
How+to+Contribute
• http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/
Approved+Contributors
Attendees were all covered already

5. Where on GitHub
• http://github.com/osops
• chef-repo/
• berkshelf, not git submodules
• cookbooks all end in "-cookbook"
• ie. "nova-cookbook"
• "operations" cookbooks outside scope
• ie. logging, monitoring, provisioning
Move to community GitHub repo, not Opscode's. Opscode will upstream from this repo.

6. Cookbooks
• cinder
• glance
• horizon
• keystone
• nova
• quantum
• swift
• ceilometer & heat eventually
The core OpenStack services

7. Goal of incorporating into OpenStack
• Get on StackForge
• will provide CI
• which everyone will probably slave
• Gerrit for code reviews
• we'll sort out reviewers once we start
• Testing with TestKitchen initially
• Grenade? Kong? SmokeStack?
We want to go into "mainline" OpenStack

8. • support alternative package sources
• source-built coming ("VanillaStack")
• packaging recipes before configuration
• ie. "nova/recipes/nova-compute-packages"
Packages
Use distro packages were applicable, but not everyone wants to use them. Build from source will come in eventually.

9. Chef Style Guide
• Chef 11 target release
• partial search
• partial templates
• Full-stack Chef-client compatible
• Ruby 1.9.x
• Upstream community cookbooks
• Foodcritic as much as possible
Table stakes

10. Chef Style Guide
• openstack-common instead of osops-utils
• Attribute injection
• attributes may short-circuit search
• few, if any, attributes in roles
• environment-driven attributes
• Chef Solo not actively supported
• platform logic in attributes files
Already using these patterns

11. • May release "2013.1.0"
• Chef repo for Grizzly
• Operating Systems (Ubuntu 12.04)
• Databases (MySQL)
• Hypervisors (KVM, LXC)
• Nova network FlatDHCP HA & VLAN
Initial osops release
Opscode employee Matt Ray and Chris McClimans are getting together after ChefConf to work on cleaning up Grizzly. Sources
will be AT&T, Dell, HubSpot and Rackspace primarily.

12. • Operating Systems (RHEL, SUSE)
• Databases (Postgres)
• Hypervisors (Xen, bare metal)
• Cinder (Ceph, LVM, NetApp)
• Quantum (Bridge, Midokura, Nicira, OVS)
• Folsom backport
• HA Configurations may be stretch goal
because of differing implementations
Grizzly Roadmap
SUSE: SLES, OpenSUSE, Postgres
KT: Xen
HubSpot: bare metal
DreamHost: Ceph
AT&T: LVM
Rackspace: Bridge, NetApp, OVS, RHEL
Opscode: Nicira
Midokura: Folsom, MidoNet
AT&T, SUSE, Rackspace different HA setups

13. knife-openstack v0.7.0
$ knife openstack
Available openstack subcommands: (for details, knife SUB-
COMMAND --help)
** OPENSTACK COMMANDS **
knife openstack flavor list (options)
knife openstack group list (options)
knife openstack image list (options)
knife openstack server create (options)
knife openstack server delete SERVER [SERVER] (options)
knife openstack server list (options)
Currently supported features.

14. knife-openstack compatibility
• Uses the OpenStack API
• Diablo, Essex, Folsom, Grizzly
• Cloudscaling
• Crowbar
• DreamHost
• Nebula
• Piston
• Rackspace Private Cloud
Continue to test for compatibility, will build out CI testing for Opscode-supported knife plugins.

15. knife-openstack Roadmap
• github.com/opscode/knife-openstack
• docs.opscode.com/plugin_knife_openstack.html
• tickets.opscode.com/browse/KNIFE/
component/
• Continues to be managed by Opscode
• Test against multiple OpenStack deployments
for compatibility
• next major release v0.8.0 (May)
• floating IP address management
• network assignment on server creates
More features will undoubtedly show up

16. • Submit talk "Chef for OpenStack Fall 2013
Overview & Status"
• Review this deck
• Report progress
• Submit for developer track session as well
• See you in Hong Kong!
Fall 2013 OpenStack Summit
We'll see what actually happens in November.