What you need for this book
For this book, the following is required:
- Operating system:
- CentOS Linux 7.1
- Software:
- VirtualBox 5.0 or higher
- RDO (Liberty release)
This book assumes a beginner-to-moderate level of networking experience and experience with Linux operating systems. While this book will walk you through a basic installation of OpenStack using RDO, little time will be spent on services other than Neutron as well as any configuration of OpenStack outside of what's available via the API. It will be helpful for you have a basic understanding of OpenStack and its components prior to reading this book.
Internet connectivity is required to install OpenStack packages. An all-in-one OpenStack deployment will be performed on a single virtual machine within VirtualBox. CentOS must be installed prior to installing RDO. Alternative virtualization platforms such as VMware, or physical hardware, are optional.
Major OpenStack releases occur every 6 months, and after the N or O release, Liberty repositories may no longer be available. In the event that the OpenStack installation procedure documented in this book no longer functions properly, refer to the installation guide at http://docs.openstack.org/ or https://www.rdoproject.org/ for instructions on installing the latest version of OpenStack.
