Automating OpenStack Operations with Zuul

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Company runs Zuul to orchestrate OpenStack ops across three git systems, using Disk Image Builder to produce raw images, uploading artifacts, then running Tempest tests to boot VMs and validate metadata. A restricted image-manager user promotes images to regions; promotion jobs live in region repos. Ansible roles and collections are assembled into a reproducible deployment host, sometimes added as an external host inventory at runtime. This pipeline cuts manual image and flavor drift, mostly works, and exposes limits around collection versioning and local job reproduction.

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1. 0:00Introduction and background
2. 3:34Managing OpenStack resources
3. 12:04Deployment host consistency
4. 17:27Hardware deployment automation
5. 19:36Summary and conclusions

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