Infrastructure-as-Code and Automation
One question I’ve been hearing more frequently from OpenStack admins is: “How do I move my instances from ephemeral boot to Cinder-backed volumes?” This shift is becoming increasingly necessary for several reasons, including: In this short post, I’ll walk you through how to migrate an instance that was originally booted with ephemeral storage to a […]
Read More Ephemeral to Cinder: A Quick GuideSome time ago I wrote a post on deploying the Flash Storage FlashArray as a Cinder backend using Kolla as the deployment method. As time has moved on, so has Kolla to the point where it now uses Ansible to deploy OpenStack with the kolla-ansible project. In this post I’m going to explain how to […]
Read More Deploying Pure Storage in OpenStack using kolla-ansibleA deep-dive into configuring OpenStack Glance multistore on Cinder backends and how they can be used in core-edge deployments.
Read More OpenStack Glance with Cinder Multistores – Scurry into the UnknownThis post will discuss using Postman to work with Pure Storage FlashArray REST API endpoints.
Read More REST API – The Postman Only Rings Once…Since the Mitaka release of OpenStack, the Pure Storage Cinder driver has supported Cinder replication, although this first iteration only supported asynchronous replication. The Rocky release of OpenStack saw Pure’s Cinder driver support synchronous replication by integrating our ActiveCluster feature from the FlashArray. This synchronous replication automatically created an ActiveCluster pod on the paired FlashArrays […]
Read More OpenStack Cinder Replication: Using Multiple ActiveCluster Pods to Increase ScaleUsing Ansible and Terraform as complementary tools for building infrastructure environments
Read More Infrastructure deployment with Terraform and Ansible