System requirements

OpenStack components are intended to run on standard hardware that ranges from desktop machines to enterprise-grade servers. For optimal performance, the processors of the compute nodes should support virtualization extensions, such as Intel's VT-x or AMD's AMD-v technologies. When using virtualization software such as VirtualBox, it may not be possible to extend certain virtualization features to the virtual machines running inside the OpenStack cloud, which could result in degraded performance. For demonstration purposes, however, deploying in a virtual machine can offer a similar experience to deploying on hardware, but in a simplified manner.

OpenStack currently supports numerous Linux distributions, including CentOS, Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, openSUSE, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, and Ubuntu. This book assumes that the CentOS 7.1 Server operating system has been installed prior to the installation of OpenStack using RDO. You can download CentOS Server from...