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Fix Wording and Typos in Deployment Philosophy

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Improved readability and comprehension of
deployment philosophy doc.

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Kenny Johnston 2016-07-25 14:53:05 -05:00
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@ -7,18 +7,18 @@ Kolla's Deployment Philosophy
Overview
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Kolla has an objective to replace the inflexible, painful, resource intensive
Kolla has an objective to replace the inflexible, painful, resource-intensive
deployment process of OpenStack with a flexible, painless, inexpensive
deployment process. Often to deploy OpenStack at one-hundred node scale that
a small business may require means building a team of OpenStack professionals
to maintain and manage the OpenStack deployment. Finding people experienced
in OpenStack deployment is very difficult and expensive, resulting in a big
deployment process. Often to deploy OpenStack at the 100+ node scale small
businesses may require means building a team of OpenStack professionals to
maintain and manage the OpenStack deployment. Finding people experienced in
OpenStack deployment is very difficult and expensive, resulting in a big
barrier for OpenStack adoption. Kolla seeks to remedy this set of problems by
simplifying the deployment process but enabling flexible deployment models.
Kolla is a highly opinionated deployment tool out of the box. This permits
Kolla to be deployable with configuration of three key/value pairs. As an
operator's experience with OpenStack grows and the desire to customize
Kolla to be deployable with the simple configuration of three key/value pairs.
As an operator's experience with OpenStack grows and the desire to customize
OpenStack services increases, Kolla offers full capability to override every
OpenStack service configuration option in the deployment.
@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ grow to hundreds of configuration key/value pairs which is unmanageable.
Further, as new versions of Kolla are released, there would be independent
customization available for different versions creating an unsupportable and
difficult to document environment. Finally, adding key/value pairs for
configuration options creates a situation in which a development and release
cycle is required in order to successfully add a new customization.
configuration options creates a situation in which development and release
cycles are required in order to successfully add new customizations.
Essentially templating in configuration options is not a scalable solution
and would result in an inability of the project to execute its mission.
@ -43,14 +43,15 @@ Kolla's Solution to Customization
Rather than deal with the customization madness of templating configuration
options in Kolla's Ansible playbooks, Kolla eliminates all the inefficiencies
of existing deployment tools through a tidy simple design.
of existing deployment tools through a simple, tidy design: custom
configuration sections.
During deployment of an OpenStack service, a basic set of default configuration
options are merged with and overridden by custom ini configuration sections.
Kolla deployment customization is that simple! This does create a situation
in which the Operator references the upstream documentation if a customization
is desired in the OpenStack deployment. Fortunately the configuration options
documentation is extremely mature and well-formulated.
in which the Operator must reference the upstream documentation if a
customization is desired in the OpenStack deployment. Fortunately the
configuration options documentation is extremely mature and well-formulated.
As an example, consider running Kolla in a virtual machine. In order to
launch virtual machines from Nova in a virtual environment, it is necessary