[colug-432] openstack Re: Cloud-based nested virtualization or other "wrapping" alternatives

[Jeff Frontz]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 9:43 PM, Tom Hanlon <tom at functionalmedia.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 6:35 PM, Jeff Frontz <jeff.frontz at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 4:55 PM, Tom Hanlon <tom at functionalmedia.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I have run openstack on openstack. For training we launch a rackspace
>>> VM, and install openstack on that VM and launch instances inside that host.
>>
>>
>> I think openstack is just another "container" approach, no?   I don't
>> think you can bring up an entirely new distro (with different kernel) on
>> top, can you?
>>
>>
> No.. Openstack is more like an open source EC2, AMI situation.
>
>
OK, so based on what you're saying (and after reading a bit at openstack.org),
I'm now thinking that openstack would run "natively" (basically as an
operating system) in a VM and then your instance(s) would run on top of
that (as a "node"), right? And there is a concept of a "management network"
that is private -- so you could have an outward-facing node running the
latest linux distro and acting as a bastion host for a "legacy node" (that
is otherwise unreachable from the outside world -- save for any connections
initiated by the legacy node).  And nodes could be anywhere in the
virtual/physical world, including all coincident on the same VM?


Thanks,
Jeff
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