Murano Deployment Notes

Overview

Fuel can deploy OpenStack and set up Murano, an open source project designed to enable Windows virtual machines in OpenStack. Some highlights of Murano features include:

Native to OpenStack
Introduction of abstraction level for Windows Environments
Support for Availability Zones and Disaster Recovery scenarios
Use of native Windows features to provide HA solutions

Considerations

Because Microsoft Windows and other necessary components can only be obtained directly from Microsoft, Murano is still to some degree a do-it-yourself project. Fuel is able to configure Murano's dashboard, API, and conductor services, but you will need to read documention on the steps to set up a Windows base image. Images can be uploaded via Glance. For information about creating a Windows image, see Build Windows Image.

Murano is installed in Fuel simply by checking the appropriate check box when configuring your environment. Murano is supported in CentOS and Ubuntu.

Murano Components

Dashboard

Murano Dashboard can be reached after Fuel deployment as a link within Horizon Dashboard. You may use the same credentials to log into Murano as you use for Horizon (via Keystone). From the Murano Dashboard you can deploy configured Windows images.

Murano API

The Murano API provides the ability manage Windows Services. For further reading, refer to Murano API Specification

Conductor

Conductor is the Murano orchestration engine that transformes objects sent by REST API service (such as Dashboard) into a series of Heat and Murano API commands.

Metadata Repository

This service stores information about deployment scenarios and workflow making it available for other Murano services and to the user.

Murano: Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting Murano

There are no known issues with deploying Murano at the time of this writing, but some issues are documented in Murano Troubleshooting.

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