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Fixing the Vexxhost MCAPI Driver in Kolla-Ansible OpenStack 2023.2

OpenStack Magnum

Fixing the Vexxhost MCAPI Driver in Kolla-Ansible OpenStack 2023.2

After updating the containers in my Kolla-Ansible deployment, I ran into a frustrating issue when trying to spin up new Kubernetes clusters with Magnum and the Vexxhost Cluster API (CAPI) driver. Everything had been working flawlessly—until the image refresh. The Error Here’s what I was met with in

Cleaning Up My Ceph Cluster with OSD Backfillfull: A Journey to Optimal Performance

Cleaning Up My Ceph Cluster with OSD Backfillfull: A Journey to Optimal Performance

Managing a Ceph cluster can be a complex yet rewarding experience. Recently, I encountered an issue with OSD (Object Storage Daemon) backfillfull, which required immediate attention to ensure the smooth operation of my storage infrastructure. In this blog post, I'll share the steps I took to resolve the

Kolla-Ansible OpenStack 2023.2 released - How to upgrade

Kolla-Ansible OpenStack 2023.2 released - How to upgrade

Beginning of December Kolla-Ansible released their support for OpenStack 2023. (Bobcat). Most notable changes (to me) are: * RabbitMQ quorum queues * These are now enabled by default and I highly recommend using them. Without it you will run into problems if your control node goes down that currently holds the VIP.

Update: Deploying OpenStack with Kolla-Ansible on VMware ESXi using Terraform

Update: Deploying OpenStack with Kolla-Ansible on VMware ESXi using Terraform

It's been quite a while since my last post as I had a lot of stuff to do at my workplace and besides that I studied for VMware VCP-DCV 2023 certification. The learning paid off and I received certification. :) But finally I found some time to enhance my

Kolla-Ansible Cinder Containers unhealthy

Kolla-Ansible Cinder Containers unhealthy

I recently replaced all 3 control nodes in my OpenStack cluster and once I replaced the last control node, all of a sudden three of the four Cinder containers became unhealty. Looking at the logs of the cinder_api container revealed the following error: 2023-05-30 21:31:36.350636 Timeout

Deploying OpenStack with Kolla-Ansible on VMware ESXi using Terraform

Deploying OpenStack with Kolla-Ansible on VMware ESXi using Terraform

If you did read one of my very first blog posts about the deployment of OpenStack in my homelab you might want to have a look at this new article, where I will do the same but instead of using Vagrant I will use Terraform. And if you wonder why

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