chef-bcpc is a set of Chef cookbooks that build a highly-available OpenStack cloud.

The cloud consists of head nodes (OpenStack controller services, Ceph Mons, etc.) and work nodes (hypervisors).

Each head node runs all of the core services in a highly-available manner. Each work node runs the relevant services (nova-compute, Ceph OSDs, etc.).

The following instructions will get chef-bcpc up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

See the [Hardware Deployment][Hardware Deployment] section for notes on how to deploy the chef-bcpc on hardware.

• OS X or Linux
• CPU that supports VT-x virtualization extensions
• 16 GB of memory
• 100 GB of free disk space
• Vagrant 2.1+
• VirtualBox 5.2+
• git, curl, rsync, ssh, jq, make, ansible

• Review virtual/topology/topology.yml for the topology you will build and make changes as required, e.g. assign more or less RAM based on your topology and your build environment. Other topologies exist in the same directory.
• If a proxy server is required for internet access, set the variables TBD
• If additional CA certificates are required (e.g. for a proxy), set the variables TBD
• From the root of the chef-bcpc git repository run the following command:

make create all

TBD

Currently, most development is done by a team at Bloomberg L.P. but we would like to build a community around this project. PRs and issues are welcomed. If you are interested in joining the team at Bloomberg L.P. please see available opportunities at the Bloomberg L.P. careers site.

This project is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License - see the LICENSE.txt file for details.

chef-bcpc is built with the following open source software:

• Ansible
• Apache HTTP Server
• Ceph
• Chef
• HAProxy
• Memcached
• OpenStack
• Percona XtraDB Cluster
• PowerDNS
• RabbitMQ
• Ubuntu
• Vagrant
• VirtualBox

Thanks to all of these communities for producing this software!