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OpenStack Essentials

You're reading from   OpenStack Essentials Untangle the complexity of OpenStack clouds through this practical tutorial

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786462664
Length 182 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Dan Radez Dan Radez
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Preface 1. RDO Installation FREE CHAPTER 2. Identity Management 3. Image Management 4. Network Management 5. Instance Management 6. Block Storage 7. Object Storage 8. Telemetry 9. Orchestration 10. Docker 11. Scaling Horizontally 12. Monitoring 13. Troubleshooting Index

Nova compute configuration


To configure a compute node to use Docker, there is a Docker driver that needs to be installed on the compute node to use as the compute Nova compute's driver. There are directions for how to do everything, which we will discuss in the documentation in the GitHub repository for the nova-docker driver at https://github.com/openstack/nova-docker.

The first task is to delete the virtual machines running. Once the following configuration is completed, OpenStack will not be able to manage the virtual machines running on the compute node. Go ahead and delete any running instances you have.

Next, let's walk through the setup instructions. Start by logging into a compute node, installing git, docker, and Docker Python support, cloning the nova-docker GitHub repository, and running setup.py to install the driver:

compute# yum install -y git docker python-docker-py
compute# systemctl enable docker
compute# git clone https://github.com/openstack/nova-docker
compute# cd nova...
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