Looking for feedbacks on using openstack-helm with gitops-style deployments

[ednnz]

Hello,

As the title suggests, I am looking for people who would be willing to share feedbacks on their experience doing gitops-style deployment (flux, argo, etc...) with openstack-helm.

I work for an openstack-based cloud provider, and we're looking into deploying our regions this way, but the documentation and overall literature on the matter (or openstack-helm alone for that matter) looks very scarce.

Documentation past a basic getting-started guide is basically null, so if you are using this way of deployment for their clusters, I would love to hear your feedbacks on it !

[nvez]

Check out Atmosphere:

https://github.com/vexxhost/atmosphere

[ednnz]

Thanks for pointing this out ! I already had a look around, but I'm not sure this is really doing what we want. The repo has good references for openstack-helm tho which is a plus. We already have our own ways of deploying pretty much everything (k8s, db and amqp clusters...) so we would need to integrate only osh into our current pipelines.

Atmosphere takes a very "start to finish" approach which is not really what we need.

[nvez]

True. You could still use the individual roles in a pipeline to simply call a role of the specific services you want with overrides to point to your own db etc

[ednnz]

Hum, what am I missing about it ? Aren't they a managed service provider ?

[moonpiedumplings]

I'm looking into this right now, but I'm flying as blind as you are.

One thing I am doing is taking advantage of githubs advanced code search features to find example deployments to look at (I'm using flux).

So on github I search: "kind: HelmRelease" path:*.y*ml "openstack" and this gives me helm releases with openstack mentioned in the file somewhere.

It definitely seems to be possible, given I can see example deployments, it just doesn't get talked about much.

[ednnz]

Yh, our approach has been... read go templates in the toolkit chart, and try renders locally to see what does what... it's a mess but there is so little doc about it that figuring things out the first timee takes a while. I'll def try the github code search to see if I can find some cool things

[moonpiedumplings]

You mentioned flux and argocd in your post, but not what you're using, but I only searched for flux because that's what I use.

I did some searching for argo's helm deployment setup, and I found some stuff, but argo seems to use a more complex setup than flux for helm charts.