Ebuild for OpenStack installation

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widyachacra · Post by **widyachacra** » Thu Aug 08, 2024 2:08 am

Dear Team,

I'm searching for an ebuild to install OpenStack. I want to set up my own OpenStack installation on top of KVM installed on my machine. My plan is to install Gentoo on each VM and configure OpenStack. I am currently using Gentoo Linux 23 on my desktop.

Please provide me with your advice on this.

Post by **Banana** » Thu Aug 08, 2024 6:04 am

There is even something in the wiki, but looks either outdated or not ready yet.

https://packages.gentoo.org/maintainer/ ... gentoo.org
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Openstack
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Openstack

For the ebuild, we do have a more detailed wiki: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Basic_guid ... oo_Ebuilds

widyachacra · Post by **widyachacra** » Thu Aug 08, 2024 7:17 am

All the links are outdated, so I decided to ask for help on this forum.

Do you know of any repository that provides OpenStack ebuilds for production/stable use? Or Please confirm that these ebuilds are not provided by the main Gentoo repositories.

JayF · Post by **JayF** » Thu Aug 08, 2024 3:09 pm

Hey,

First of all -- happy to hear you're using OpenStack. I've been working on it as a developer or operator for over a decade so hopefully I can help.

For installation though, I'd suggest using one of the existing OpenStack projects around installation, even if that may mean you need to run on a different distro than Gentoo or adapt the code to work on a Gentoo-based container host, e.g.:

Kolla-Ansible uses containers to run the openstack services:
- https://docs.openstack.org/kolla-ansibl ... start.html

There are no currently maintained ebuilds for OpenStack and there are a couple of really good reasons for that:
- OpenStack tests against a locked-in set of dependencies, and using a rolling release distro with it can lead to unexpected results
- OpenStack's support life-cycle is longer than that for Gentoo (especially when thinking about e.g. python version support)

I know this may not be a gentoo-y answer, but I want to be completely up-front with you about what's most likely to lead to a working install for you. You're also welcome to post to the openstack-discuss https://lists.openstack.org/mailman3/li ... stack.org/ mailing list if you have questions about it, or come join us in OFTC IRC -- I am personally in a lot of channels including #openstack-dev (JayF).

Good luck, and I hope you get where you're going! Please reach out via OpenStack channels if I can be of help.

--
Jay Faulkner
OpenStack TC Member

JayF · Post by **JayF** » Thu Aug 08, 2024 3:11 pm

To be clear: many OpenStack-adjacent **utilities** have gentoo ebuilds and are supported on a wider range of possible dependencies. These include our SDKs, CLI clients, diskimage-builder and PBR.

jorge.ventura · Post by **jorge.ventura** » Fri Jan 17, 2025 2:17 pm

jayofdoom wrote:Hey,

First of all -- happy to hear you're using OpenStack. I've been working on it as a developer or operator for over a decade so hopefully I can help.

For installation though, I'd suggest using one of the existing OpenStack projects around installation, even if that may mean you need to run on a different distro than Gentoo or adapt the code to work on a Gentoo-based container host, e.g.:

Kolla-Ansible uses containers to run the openstack services:
- https://docs.openstack.org/kolla-ansibl ... start.html

There are no currently maintained ebuilds for OpenStack and there are a couple of really good reasons for that:
- OpenStack tests against a locked-in set of dependencies, and using a rolling release distro with it can lead to unexpected results
- OpenStack's support life-cycle is longer than that for Gentoo (especially when thinking about e.g. python version support)

I know this may not be a gentoo-y answer, but I want to be completely up-front with you about what's most likely to lead to a working install for you. You're also welcome to post to the openstack-discuss https://lists.openstack.org/mailman3/li ... stack.org/ mailing list if you have questions about it, or come join us in OFTC IRC -- I am personally in a lot of channels including #openstack-dev (JayF).

Good luck, and I hope you get where you're going! Please reach out via OpenStack channels if I can be of help.

--
Jay Faulkner
OpenStack TC Member

I was exactly asking my self about that and your information was very useful. Make total sense that Gentoo doesn't gather the features required to host openstack. I love Gentoo but I have to recognize it's not for servers at least in the very broad sense.

Thank you