In this talk I will share my experience doing upstream OpenStack development using the OpenStack Ansible Deployment (OSAD) distribution instead of DevStack as my development platform.
OSAD is a production OpenStack distribution for private clouds that deploys upstream OpenStack direct from the official git repositories, without any vendor-specific patches or add-ons. But unlike DevStack, services are isolated from each other in LXC containers, providing more flexibility and less dependency headaches.
In this talk I will give you an introduction to the OSAD project and show you how I use it to contribute code upstream. Topics I will cover during the presentation include:
- What is OSAD?
- Architecture overview
- How to deploy an OSAD all-in-one for upstream development
- OSAD vs. DevStack: How are they similar, and how are they different?
- Development workflow
- Types of upstream work that work well with OSAD.
- Types of upstream work that do not work well with OSAD.
- Live Demonstration
