[sheepdog] Testing sheepdog with OpenStack

[Liu Yuan]

On 01/17/2013 11:17 PM, MORITA Kazutaka wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Recently, I've heard several users tries to use Sheepdog from
> OpenStack.  Unfortunately, there is no enough document yet about it.
> 
> I've modified DevStack (a script to build OpenStack environment) so
> that we can easily test Sheepdog with OpenStack.
> 
> Here is a quick start guide (see also http://devstack.org/):
> 
> 1. Install Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise) or Fedora 16
> 
> 2. Start Sheepdog and format it.
> 
> 3. Download patched devstack from github
>   $ git clone git://github.com/kazum/devstack.git
> 
> 4. Setup DevStack
> 
>   $ cd devstack
>   $ echo "enable_service cinder" >> localrc
> 
> 5. Start DevStack
> 
>   $ CINDER_DRIVER=sheepdog ./stack.sh
> 
> Then you can control OpenStack and Sheepdog volumes from your web
> browser (please follow the output of stack.sh).
> 
> DevStack is a tool for OpenStack developers, but I hope it would help
> you understand how to use Sheepdog with OpenStack until more
> user-friendly documents come.  I've tested creating and snapshoting a
> sheepdog volume, and booting from it.  Looks like working well.
> 

Could you add this to our wiki too?

Thanks,
Yuan