This repository provides a base Kayobe configuration for the 2026.1 Gazpacho release of StackHPC OpenStack.

Note: This repository is maintained for StackHPC and its customers. While it is not intended for direct external deployment, specific OpenStack configuration elements may be extracted or adapted for your own use.

Documentation is hosted on readthedocs.io, and includes release notes.

The hosts in an OpenStack control plane must somehow be provisioned, but deploying a secondary OpenStack cloud to do this seems like overkill.

Kayobe stands on the shoulders of giants:

• OpenStack bifrost discovers and provisions the cloud
• OpenStack kolla builds container images for OpenStack services
• OpenStack kolla-ansible delivers painless deployment and upgrade of containerised OpenStack services

To this solid base, kayobe adds:

• Configuration of cloud host OS & flexible networking
• Management of physical network devices
• A friendly openstack-like CLI

All this and more, automated from top to bottom using Ansible.

• Heavily automated using Ansible
• kayobe Command Line Interface (CLI) for cloud operators
• Deployment of a seed VM used to manage the OpenStack control plane
• Configuration of physical network infrastructure
• Discovery, introspection and provisioning of control plane hardware using OpenStack bifrost
• Deployment of an OpenStack control plane using OpenStack kolla-ansible
• Discovery, introspection and provisioning of bare metal compute hosts using OpenStack ironic and ironic inspector
• Virtualised compute using OpenStack nova
• Containerised workloads on bare metal using OpenStack magnum
• Control plane monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana.
• Log aggregation using OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards.

https://docs.openstack.org/kayobe/latest/

https://docs.openstack.org/releasenotes/kayobe/

https://bugs.launchpad.net/kayobe

OFTC's IRC channel: #openstack-kolla

Kayobe is distributed under the Apache 2.0 License.