hi,
We've been looking at bringing up a cloud infra inside of ci.centos.org so that projects are able to test in and against cloud workloads, without having to first deploy their own!
As some people on this list might know, the RDO effort is looking at bringing up an RDOCloud in the coming months, this will have the capacity to run a large number of instances, and also offer a very comprehensive openstack feature set. Our intention is to collaborate with them, and essentially use their cloud instance as the cloud workload host for ci.centos.org - in return we would offer them baremetal instances on our side, for when and how they want to test openstack-ironic driven workloads.
This is made possible largely due to the fact that the RDO Cloud is likely going to come up, hosted in the same Data Center as the main ci.centos.org infra is, and we would have 10gb ( or better ) interconnect with their setup.
However, this effort is still in PoC stages.
In the mean time, we have a portion of our ci.centos.org infra, that we are going to onramp as an RDO Cloud in the coming days. I hope to have this setup for testing by the 28th March. Also, the aim here is going to be to offer as-little-features as needed to deliver a minimal viable IaaS service level. ie, Nova + Keystone + Glance + horizon ( and any hard ascendancies from there ), backed with a ceph storage cluster. We will aim to setup the network in a way that it maps 1:1 with the baremetal machines network ( ie, there will be no tenant isolation etc ).
Ofcourse, with the RDOCloud coming up down the road, the lack of extended features wont be a thing.
I am hoping to deploy enough capacity to run ~ 500 VMs.
Regards