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Upgrading TripleO can be a hard task. While there are instructions on how to do it manually, having a set of playbooks that automate this task can help. With this purpose, I've created the TripleO upgrade automation playbooks ( https://github.com/redhat-nfvpe/tripleo-upgrade-automation ). Those are a set of playbooks that allow to upgrade an existing TripleO deployment, specially focused on versions from 8 to 10, and integrated with local mirrors ( https://github.com/redhat-nfvpe/rhel-local-mirrors ) In case you want to know more, please visit the tripleo-upgrade-automation project on github, and you'll get instructions on how to properly use this repo to automate your upgrades.

This article is going to cover how to deploy TripleO Quickstart on baremetal. The undercloud will still be virtualized, but controller and compute will be deployed on baremetal. This post belongs to a serie. In order to get more knowledge about TOAD and tripleo-quickstart, please read http://teknoarticles.blogspot.com/2017/02/automated-osp-deployments-with-tripleo.html and http://teknoarticles.blogspot.com/2017/02/describing-cira-continuous-integration.html Requirements Hardware A baremetal server is needed to act as Jenkins slave + contain virtualized undercloud. A multi-core CPU, 16GB of RAM and 60GB of disk is the recommended setup. One server for each controller/compute that needs to be deployed. They need to have at least 8GB of RAM. Network IPMI access is needed for each controller/compute server  A provisioning network is required, the jenkins slave and the controller/compute nodes need to be on the same network, and the defined CIDR cannot be used for any ot...

In this article I'm going to show a method for automating OSP (RedHat OpenStack platform) deployments. These automated deployments can be very useful for CI, or simply to experiment and test with the system. Components involved TOAD : set of playbooks to deploy Jenkins, jenkins-job-builder and an optional ELK stack. This will install a ready to use system with all the preconfigured jobs (including OSP10 deployments and image building). TOAD jenkins-jobs : A set of job templates and macros, using jenkins-job-builder syntax, that get converted into Jenkins jobs for building the OSP base images and for deploying the system. TOAD job-configs : A set of job configurations to be used along with the jenkins-jobs repo. It provides a set of basic configs to build OpenStack using RDO or OSP. TripleO quickstart : set of ansible playbooks, used for building images and for RDO/OSP deployments. System requirements One VM to run a Jenkins master + nginx provided by TOAD. If you wa...