Installation of OpenStack
The steps in the later part of the chapter document the installation of OpenStack services, including Keystone, Glance, Nova Compute, and Horizon, on a single controller and compute node. Neutron, the OpenStack Networking service, will be installed in the next chapter.
Installing and configuring the MySQL database server
On the controller node, use
yum
to install the MySQL database server:
# yum -y install mysql mysql-server MySQL-python
Once installed, set the IP address that MySQL will bind to by editing the /etc/my.cnf
configuration file and adding the bind-address
definition. Doing so will allow connectivity to MySQL from other hosts in the environment. The value for bind-address
should be the management IP of the controller node:
# crudini --set /etc/my.cnf mysqld bind-address 10.254.254.100
Start the mysqld
process, and configure it to start at boot:
# service mysqld start # chkconfig mysqld on
The MySQL secure installation utility is used to build the default...