What is the meaning of these "roles" used in the docs?

asked 2019-03-12 06:08:42 -0500

dasnessie
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I'm trying to set up an OpenStack testing environment using Ansible to deploy on two VMs. The real-life setup will feature four machines: One machine is supposed to be the "manager", the other machines provide the resources.

My problem is the following: I'm trying to follow https://docs.openstack.org/project-deploy-guide/openstack-ansible/rocky/ (this guide), but I often come across labels for machines that I don't know the meaning of:

What is the "storage host"? I have three machines providing storage, and one that is supposed to manage the storage. Is it the managing machine? If so, what is the physical device path that I need https://docs.openstack.org/project-deploy-guide/openstack-ansible/rocky/targethosts.html#configuring-the-storage (here)?
What is a "storage node"? Is it the same as the storage host?
What is a "compute node"? I'm guessing it's the machines that provide the computation power?
What is a "network node"?

Thanks in advance, I'm sorry if I'm asking dumb questions but I really don't understand the docs.

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answered 2019-03-21 08:56:50 -0500

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What is a "storage node"?: An Object Storage node that provides container services, account services, and object services; controls the account databases, container databases, and object storage.

What is a "compute node"?: A node that runs the nova-compute daemon that manages VM instances that provide a wide range of services, such as web applications and analytics. it usually manages to run servers on kvm, xen, vmware, docker and other hypervisors.

What is a "network node"?: Any compute node that runs the network worker daemon. it usually manages ip addresses, virtual routers, firewalls, subnets and so on... it provides "infrastructure programmability" and Infrastracture as a service, firewall as a service, vpn as a as a service and so on...

and SURPRISE: there is a glossory to find definition of terms in openstack culture: https://docs.openstack.org/doc-contri...