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Wednesday, November 5 • 09:50 - 10:30
Troubleshooting Problems in Heat Deployments

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Designed to deploy composite cloud applications, the OpenStack Heat orchestration engine is a convenient and powerful automation tool.  Unfortunately, when a failure happens during the provisioning and configuration of resources, diagnosing the cause of the problem can be a difficult proposition for the end user. In this talk, we first describe a number of ad hoc troubleshooting techniques which Heat users have been resorting to that have proved effective as well as the new enhancements delivered with the Juno release that could make this process easier.

In addition, we will describe recent proposals made by the community aiming to mitigate the troubleshooting pain, including a template debugger inspired by debuggers for traditional programming languages and making the OpenStack logs available to the end users for debugging.  Finally, we will propose a new approach for troubleshooting a wide range of failures by analyzing (1) the OpenStack logs as they are made available to the end users, (2) snapshots of the cloud state, and (3) the HOT template itself and demonstrate end-to-end scenarios helping end users diagnose the error, fix the template, and successfully redeploy.

Speakers
avatar for Ton Ngo

Ton Ngo

Senior Developer, IBM
Ton Ngo is a senior developer at the IBM Silicon Valley Lab, building cloud solution for customers for the past 8 years using IBM cloud orchestration products. Since the OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong, he has been working on Heat, focusing on improving support for template troubleshooting... Read More →
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Fabio Oliveira

Research Scientist, IBM Research
Fabio is a Research Scientist and Manager at IBM Research where he leads the Cloud-native Computing and Analytics team in the Hybrid Cloud Platform Research Department. Fabio has co-founded the iter8 open source project and has worked on several projects related to cloud computing... Read More →
avatar for Winnie Tsang

Winnie Tsang

Software Developer, IBM
Winnie Tsang is a software developer at IBM Silicon Valley Lab, who start contributing to Heat in the Juno cycle. Currently, she is focusing on enhancing the support for heat template debugging.


Wednesday November 5, 2014 09:50 - 10:30 CET
Room 253

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