This is the ninth in a series about running the OpenStack placement service in a container. The previous update was Playground 8.

The container playground series introduced running placement in Kubernetes in Playground 4 and then extended it in Playground 5 to add a Horizontal Pod Autoscaler.

But it was …

I've had a few persistent complaints in my four and half years of working on OpenStack, but two that stand out are:

• The use of RPC—with large complicated objects being passed around on a message bus—to make things happen. It's fragile, noisy, over-complicated, hard to manage, hard to …

Today the OpenStack placement service has reached something of a milestone: It is now possible to install it from PyPI and make it do its thing. Here's a quick shell script that demonstrates (without keystone). It requires a working python3 development environment but is otherwise self-contained.

Because keystone is not …

I've recently made some fairly substantial changes to the container used throughout the Placement Container Playground series, so I figure an update is in order. The previous update was Playground 7.

The main changes involve the management of configuration. Throughout this process I've been trying to align myself with what …