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OpenStack Essentials: Demystify the cloud by building your own private OpenStack cloud

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OpenStack Essentials

Chapter 2. RDO Installation

We looked at the components that make up an OpenStack installation in the previous chapter; let's now take a look at what's involved in installing and configuring these components. In this chapter, we'll walk through the installation and configuration of a community-supported distribution of OpenStack called RDO using an installation tool called Packstack.

Manual installation and configuration of OpenStack involves installing, configuring, and registering each of the components we covered in the previous chapter and also multiple databases and a messaging system. It's a very involved, repetitive, error-prone, and sometimes-confusing process. Fortunately, there are a few distributions that include tools to automate this installation and configuration process.

One such distribution is the RDO distribution. RDO, as a name, doesn't officially mean anything. It's just the name of Red Hat's community-supported distribution...

Installing RDO using Packstack

Packstack is an install tool for OpenStack intended for demonstration and proof of concept deployments. The other two installation tools mentioned are intended for longer term installations that need to be managed and maintained and are outside the scope of what we will accomplish in this book. Packstack uses SSH to connect to each of the nodes and invokes a puppet run (specifically a puppet apply) on each of the nodes to install and configure OpenStack.

RDO Quickstart gives instructions to install RDO using Packstack in three simple steps:

  1. Update the system and install the RDO release rpm as follows:
    sudo yum update -y
    sudo yum install -y http://rdo.fedorapeople.org/rdo-release.rpm
    
  2. Install Packstack as shown in the following command:
    sudo yum install -y openstack-packstack
    
  3. Run Packstack as shown in the following command:
    sudo packstack --allinone
    

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Summary

Using Packstack, we now have OpenStack installed and running. Now that OpenStack is installed and running and you've logged in to the dashboard interface, let's walk through each of the components discussed in Chapter 1, Architecture and Component Overview, and you will learn how to use each of them. In the next chapter, we will take a look at Keystone to manage users, tenants, and roles used in managing identities within the OpenStack cluster.

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If you need to get started with OpenStack or want to learn more, then this book is your perfect companion. If you're comfortable with the Linux command line, you'll gain confidence in using OpenStack.

What you will learn

  • Install OpenStack using the Packstack installation tool
  • Create users, cloud images, and virtual networks to launch cloud instances
  • Explore horizontal scaling to support the load that a cloud platform is expected to handle
  • Set up monitoring to keep track of the health of an OpenStack cloud
  • Troubleshoot issues with an OpenStack cluster
  • Build storage and access it from your running cloud instances
  • Orchestrate a multiinstance deployment to build a complex set of virtual infrastructure to run an application in the cloud
  • Keep track of resources being consumed within an OpenStack cloud through metering

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Table of Contents

14 Chapters
1. Architecture and Component Overview Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2. RDO Installation Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
3. Identity Management Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
4. Image Management Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
5. Network Management Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
6. Instance Management Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
7. Block Storage Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
8. Object Storage Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
9. Telemetry Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
10. Orchestration Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
11. Scaling Horizontally Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
12. Monitoring Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
13. Troubleshooting Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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A good hands-on introduction to OpenStack.The book starts from a typical OpenStack with RDO and PackStack, then introduces in turn the role of each of the main OpenStack components (Keystone, Glance, Neutron, Nova, Cinder, Swift, Ceilometer and Heat) - which is usually the main hurdle when starting from scratch with OpenStack. Each chapter is concise, with hands-on examples.The last chapters covers the basics of OpenStack scaling, monitoring and troubleshooting.This book is a good general introduction to OpenStack. I recommend it if your goal is to get a test installation running, having an idea of what is going on and being able to troubleshoot the most common issues!
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JC Aug 12, 2015
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In "OpenStack Essentials," Dan Radez concisely walks you through 13 chapters of the big ideas of using OpenStack for a virtualization platform. He introduces the components: control, network and compute, what they are, how to configure the individual pieces using their related tools from command line to the automated tools and some general ideas on directions to pursue with troubleshooting. There are 13 chapters covering architecture, installation, identity, image, network and instance management, block and object storage, telemetry, orchestration, scaling, monitoring and troubleshooting. Each individual chapter introduces the big ideas and then walks through the steps sequentially (command line, dashboards, etc) of how to actually carry out the steps. You could actually run these commands in your own lab to test it out. This book provides a very solid introduction to how to build and operate a virtual computing environment with OpenStack. If you need to deploy OpenStack and need help knowing where to start, this book can lead you through the fog, take you by the hand and help you get started. By way of experience, I have worked with VMware but never OpenStack and this title gave a very clear intro.
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This is an excellent book for a developer who wants to learn the basics of using OpenStack. In a clear, straightforward and useful way it walks you through the process of setting up a personal OpenStack installation that you can experiment and learn with, walking you through the various modules step by step, and giving lots of practical tips and advice along the way.
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JK Jun 01, 2015
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Dan Radez talks to the point. No fluff whatsoever. Exact commands that need you get started. I read only 3 chapters yet, but I am already clear on what OpenStack is and what we can do with it. Of course, I have worked on AWS extensively, so relating the similarities was very easy.The way Dan has explained each of the components in Chapter 1 is very crisp and clear. I liked the way OpenStack has enforced Authentication as a key first step to get started, and again Dan has explained it very clearly step by step. Again no filling pages with outputs of each command. Just he required lines.Third chapter gets your installation ready and I can se at a glance the next chapters are showing how we get the AMI, then the instance and so on.Just a caution: this book, as the author clearly states, is not for learning cloud concepts or visualization etc. Definitely its is a starter guide for OpenStack.Great first book by Dan! Hope he writes an advanced one next!
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