Tag Archives: Heat

Openstack and Docker – Part 2

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This is a continuation of my previous blog on Openstack and Docker. In this blog, I will cover Openstack Docker heat plugin and Magnum.

Following are some of the items that Nova Docker driver cannot do currently:

  1. Passing environment variables
  2. Linking containers
  3. Specifying volumes
  4. Orchestrating and scheduling the containers

Heat docker plugin solves problems 1-3 and partially solves problem 4. Following is the architecture diagram I found in Openstack Docker wiki for heat.

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  • Nova is not involved here. Openstack heat uses Docker plugin to talk to Docker agent on the host.
  • The host here is the VM spawned. The VM can either be spawned by Nova or Heat can spawn this using Nova driver.
  • Glance is not involved here as the container images are stored in Docker registry.
  • The Heat approach allows us to specify environment variables, link containers, specify volumes as well as orchestrate the host on which the Docker runs.

Using Heat plugin:

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Openstack Juno services – Swift, Glance, Heat, Ceilometer

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This blog is part of my series on Openstack Juno. In this blog, I will cover the usage of Openstack services Swift, Glance, Heat, Ceilometer.

Swift:

Swift is used for Object based storage. Its similar to AWS S3 service.
First, create a container to store objects:

$ swift post mycont

Upload a file to the container

$ swift upload mycont local.conf

List container and objects.

$ swift list
mycont
$ swift list mycont
local.conf

List status of created container.

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