Dreamhost progress

[Andrew Wilkins]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 6:52 AM Martin Packman <martin.packman at canonical.com>
wrote:

> Andrew landed a change on master to allow the Openstack provider to
> track state servers using metadata on the instances rather than
> object-store. This should fix the bug I raised[0] but for one small
> extra change needed, and gets us onto the next problem bootstrapping
> with Dreamhost.
>
> To try out juju on Dreamhost, need an account[1] (free trial
> available), then configure environments.yaml with credentials,
> remembering to use project-name for tenant-name rather than tenant-id.
> I also added "default-series: trusty" and "network: private-network"
> which aren't strictly required.
>
> Then recompiled master with an additional patch[2] to make goose not
> complain when there is no object-store in the keystone catalog.
>
> Next step is generate image metadata for the trusty image given by
> `nova image-list` which is the same as before:
>
> $ juju metadata generate-image -i c55094e9-699c-4da9-95b4-2e2e75f4c66e -s
> trusty
>
> Then bootstrap with --upload-tools and --metadata-source pointing at
> the directory with the image streams.
>
> That got as far as trying to connect, but instances only have an IPv6
> and private 10. address by default. Juju did try to ssh to
> 2607:f298:6050:8af8:f816:3eff:fee3:2e94 but I'm not sure that code
> path would actually work even if I had IPv6 routing from canonistack
> to dreamhost.
>
> Easy fix, add "use-floating-ip: true".
>
> That gets us to the current problem though, which is the Dreamhost
> image labelled "Ubuntu-14.04-Trusty" does not have an 'ubuntu' user.
> Instead, the base user account is 'dhc-user' and cloud-init adds your
> keys there. I can see three possible ways past this:
>
> 1) Get them to use our standard cloud images
> 2) Add config option to use a different username than ubuntu (ick)
> 3) Make the cloudconfig generation detect the lack of the ubuntu user and
> add it
>
> Our centos path sort of does the last of these already, but we assume
> all ubuntu versions are sanely set up.
>
> Martin
>

Thanks for the update. I'll send a PR with your patch today.

Cheers,
Andrew

[0] Openstack provider should work without object-store
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/juju-core/+bug/1456265>
> [1] DreamCompute
> <https://www.dreamhost.com/cloud/computing/>
> [2] Patch needed to progress with bootstrap:
> diff --git a/provider/openstack/provider.go
> b/provider/openstack/provider.go
> index 4ba9a73..e84b5c9 100644
> --- a/provider/openstack/provider.go
> +++ b/provider/openstack/provider.go
> @@ -770,7 +770,9 @@ func authClient(ecfg *environConfig)
> client.AuthenticatingCl
>         if !ecfg.SSLHostnameVerification() {
>                 newClient = client.NewNonValidatingClient
>         }
> -       return newClient(cred, authMode, nil)
> +       client := newClient(cred, authMode, nil)
> +       client.SetRequiredServiceTypes([]string{"compute"})
> +       return client
>  }
>
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