Faking Out Ceph-Deploy in OpenStack

I wanted to build a functional Ceph deployment for testing but did not have hardware to use.   So I decided I would use my instances in OpenStack.   The image choice I used for this configuration was the stock RHEL 6.5 cloud image from Redhat.   However when I went to do a ceph-deploy install on my monitor server, I ran into this:

[root@ceph-mon ceph]# ceph-deploy install ceph-mon

[ceph_deploy.conf][DEBUG ] found configuration file at: /root/.cephdeploy.conf

[ceph_deploy.cli][INFO  ] Invoked (1.5.2): /usr/bin/ceph-deploy install ceph-mon

[ceph_deploy.install][DEBUG ] Installing stable version firefly on cluster ceph hosts ceph-mon

[ceph_deploy.install][DEBUG ] Detecting platform for host ceph-mon ...

[ceph-mon][DEBUG ] connected to host: ceph-mon

[ceph-mon][DEBUG ] detect platform information from remote host

[ceph_deploy][ERROR ] UnsupportedPlatform: Platform is not supported:

It didn;t really say what platform it thought this was that was unsupported, but I knew that Redhat 6.5 was supported so it really did not make any sense.   What I discovered though was that the following file was missing within my cloud image:

/etc/redhat-release

So I manually add it:

vi /etc/redhat-release

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Santiago)

Then when I reran ceph-deploy it detected a supported platform:

 

[root@ceph-mon ceph]# ceph-deploy install ceph-mon

[ceph_deploy.conf][DEBUG ] found configuration file at: /root/.cephdeploy.conf

[ceph_deploy.cli][INFO  ] Invoked (1.5.2): /usr/bin/ceph-deploy install ceph-mon

[ceph_deploy.install][DEBUG ] Installing stable version firefly on cluster ceph hosts ceph-mon

[ceph_deploy.install][DEBUG ] Detecting platform for host ceph-mon ...

[ceph-mon][DEBUG ] connected to host: ceph-mon

[ceph-mon][DEBUG ] detect platform information from remote host

[ceph-mon][DEBUG ] detect machine type

[ceph_deploy.install][INFO  ] Distro info: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6.5 Santiago

[ceph-mon][INFO  ] installing ceph on ceph-mon

[ceph-mon][INFO  ] Running command: yum clean all

 

Cleaning Up Expired Tokens in OpenStack Keystone

Keystone is an OpenStack project that provides Identity, Token, Catalog and Policy services for use specifically by projects in the OpenStack family.  When a client obtains a token from Keystone, that token has a validity period before it expires.  However even after it is marked expired, it is kept in the MySQL database of OpenStack.  This can create issues if your environment is passing out a lot of tokens and can cause the token table to grow.

To prevent this infinite growth, you can implement the following command in a cron to clean up the expired tokens within the MySQL DB:

keystone-manage token-flush