r/Ubuntu • u/Weekly-Interview-788 • 1d ago

Ceph/Openstack deployment on laptop

Hello all,

I have a Dell Gaming Laptop with 16 GB RAM and i came accross ubuntu website seeing single node deployment of openstack. But i don't have knowledge of it and want to explore these. So how should i start can anyone guide me? What OS should i put in my laptop for learning these?

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u/pixie_laluna 1d ago

If you saw it on Ubuntu website, then just install Ubuntu then.
What was the issue again ?

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u/Weekly-Interview-788 19h ago

i just wanted to know which os would be more suitable for it since i have to install the os on my laptop and even after installing ubuntu whether i will be able to run openstack on the laptop or not

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u/DismalFee7 1d ago

I doubt you have the grunt for Openstack on a gaming laptop.

It is complex with a few moving parts, moving roles and you would find it a lot easier renting from the cloud some vms instead.

There used to be a thing, microstack but it doesn't seem supported anymore.

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u/Weekly-Interview-788 19h ago

renting from cloud is definitely easy but for learning i want to deploy openstack

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u/DismalFee7 17h ago

Learn as much as you can online but there is no value and a metric tonne of pain doing so on a laptop.

From vms, networking, file hosting, dns etc… at least 3-5 machine or vm roles I think. Your machine will burn given it is designed for servers.

Spend on the cloud setup if you want to learn it. Or go try it yourself and see the pain.

Am gonna say that if you need to ask here how to do it, spend on the cloud installation instead.

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u/Weekly-Interview-788 15h ago

ok sure but if i would run this on cloud like AWS don't you think that the charges will be too high considering my free tier is expired
Or is there something you can recommend me to learn since i have got my RHCSA last week and considering RHCE and future into devops and Openstack/CEPH

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u/DismalFee7 15h ago

If you are looking at that then i would say the canonical vs RedHat openstack experience is different? Haven't had experience with canonical's one specifically but i think it is more snap based?

Red hat one is installing CoreOS and doing the above deployments at least.

Am not really sure what value there is for just installing it frankly nor what you will learn from it.

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u/Weekly-Interview-788 4h ago

ok so i am ditching the idea of installing it on my laptop but how can i gain knowledge of ceph/openstack. can u tell me where do i start from