service mixup between controller and computer

[Mudasir Mirza]

HI,

I am quiet new to OpenStack and everytime I start installing and configuring, I find that I have mixed up services betweek Computer and controlller....
It would be great and appreciated if anyone can com up and create two separate DOC file, one for Controller node and one DOC file separate for Compute node.
This way it will become allot clear for everyone and me that which services and utilities are running and Controller and how they are setup and same for Computer node...

Regards,
Mudasir Mirza.

[Tom Fifield (fifieldt)]

Hi Mudasir,

Thanks for your report.

I understand your issue - it's sometimes challenging to determine where to run which service.

The main reason for this is, the services can be run anywhere, and where they run is a design choice in the implementation. There isn't really the concept of a "controller" in OpenStack - we just use this in the documentation to try and assist in understanding the way that things could be separated.

To that end, the way to proceed from this one is not crystal clear - I'll start a discussion with our documentation team colleagues to see how we can best address this.

[Tom Fifield (fifieldt)]

This was substantially improved for the icehouse installation guide.