SUSE Cloud 5: considerations about cloud-init, meta-data, user-data and config-drive

Posted on September 16, 2015 by ebl

This article refers to a SUSE OpenStack Cloud 5 environment. Both, admin and control node run with SLES11 as does one of the two compute nodes, the other compute node runs with SLES12.
I’ve had my share trying to provide user-data to my instances, regardless if I used config-drive or the meta-data service. Continue reading →

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Setting fixed addresses for fixed addresses

Posted on September 16, 2015 by ebl

I’m working in a SUSE Cloud 5 environment consisting of 4 nodes, one admin node (VM, SLES11), one control node (physical, SLES11) and two compute nodes (both physical, one with SLES11, one with SLES12). The OpenStack version is Juno.

This article describes how to assign specific fixed ip addresses to your Cloud instances with nova boot command even though this feature is not supported. Continue reading →

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Using SUSE Cloud to setup a practice environment

Posted on September 11, 2015 by ebl

In this article, I would like to give a brief description what should be considered if you want to setup a test environment in SUSE Cloud 5 for different users and/or tenants. Continue reading →

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