Preparing the host for the OpenStack deployment
In this recipe, we are going to install the infrastructure components that OpenStack depends on, such as the database server, the message queue, and the caching service. The projects that we are going to use throughout this chapter depend on these services for communication and persistent storage.
Getting ready
For this recipe, we are going to need the following components:
- An Ubuntu server with great virtualization capabilities
- Access to the internet for package installation
How to do it...
In order to keep the deployment simple and focus on the provisioning aspect of OpenStack, we are going to use a single physical server to host all services. In production environments, it is a common approach to separate each service onto their own set of servers, for scalability and high availability. By following the steps outlined in this chapter, you should be able to deploy all services on multiple hosts, by replacing the IP addresses and hostnames in the...
