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Increase resource capacity for lab controller
Our standard lab resources are bigger than they once were. When running a lab spread over several weeks, it is a frequent occurrence for the controller node to run out of disk or RAM. This leads to oom-killer, filesystem overflow and other instability we can do without. Increase both here.
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README.rst

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For this workshop we require the use of a single server, configured as a
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*seed hypervisor*. This server should be a bare metal node or VM running
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CentOS 8, with the following minimum requirements:
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CentOS Stream 8 or Ubuntu 20.04, with the following minimum requirements:
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* 32GB RAM
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* 80GB disk
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* 64GB RAM (more is recommended when growing the lab deployment)
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* 100GB disk
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We will also need SSH access to the seed hypervisor, and passwordless sudo
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configured for the login user.
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This shows how to prepare the seed hypervisor for the exercise. It assumes
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you have created a seed hypervisor instance fitting the requirements
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above and have already logged in (e.g. ``ssh centos@<ip>``).
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above and have already logged in (e.g. ``ssh centos@<ip>``
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or ``ssh ubuntu@<ip>``).
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.. code-block:: console
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tenks.yml

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node_types:
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controller:
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memory_mb: 8192
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memory_mb: 16384
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vcpus: 4
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volumes:
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# There is a minimum disk space capacity requirement of 4GiB when using Ironic Python Agent:
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# https://github.com/openstack/ironic-python-agent/blob/master/ironic_python_agent/utils.py#L290
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- capacity: 20GiB
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- capacity: 40GiB
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physical_networks:
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- physnet1
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console_log_enabled: true

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