Deploying OpenStack with LXC support on Ubuntu
An OpenStack deployment may consist of multiple components that interact with each other through exposed APIs, or a message bus such as RabbitMQ, as shown in the following figure:
In this chapter, we'll deploy a minimum set of those components - Keystone, Glance, Nova, and Neutron - which will be sufficient to provision LXC containers and still take advantage of the scheduler logic and scalable networking that OpenStack provides.
For this tutorial, we are going to be using Ubuntu Xenial, and as of the time of this writing, the latest Newton OpenStack release. What is the name of that OpenStack release?
Preparing the host
To simplify things, we are going to use a single server to host all services with a minimum of 16 GB of RAM. In production environments, it's a common approach to separate each service into its own set of servers, for scalability and high availability. By following the steps in this chapter, you can easily...
