Once you have your OpenStack playground up and running it is time to actually use it. What we want to do today is to create our first compute instance. Before we can do that, we again need a bit of preparation. If you know AWS EC2, or other public cloud services when it comes to compute, you probably know the…
We’ve finished the last post with a working Network (Neutron) service on the controller and compute node. In this post we’ll setup the final service which is Horizon, the OpenStack dashboard. Once more, looking back at what we need at a minimum, we’ve done most of it by now: Currently, the overview of our playground looks like this: Today we’re…
We’ve finished the last post with a working Compute (Nova) service on the controller and compute node. While only the compute(s) actually run compute resources, Nova is also running on the controller for the management tasks, while libvirt is only running on the compute node. Once more, looking back at what we need at a minimum, we’ve done most of…
We’re now coming closer to the final setup of the OpenStack test environment. Again, looking at the minimum services we need, there are only three of them left: In this post we’ll continue with the Compute Service, which is called Nova. As a short reminder, if you followed the last posts, this is what we have currently: In addition to…
By the end of the last post we finally got the first OpenStack service up and running: Keystone, the Identity Service. Going back to the list of services we need at a minimum, this still leaves us with some more to setup: In this post we’ll setup the Image Service (Glance) and the Placement service. The Glance service is responsible…
By the end of the last post, we finished with preparing the controller and compute node for being ready to deploy the first OpenStack service: Keystone, the Identity Service. Before we dive into the details lets quickly talk about why we need such a service. In an OpenStack setup there needs to be some form of authentication and service discovery.…
In the introduction post we’ve briefly looked at some options you have available when you want to build your own private cloud. In this post we’re going to start our journey into OpenStack by preparing the two nodes we’re going to use for this setup: The controller node, and one compute node. Maybe you remember from the last post, this…
While public clouds are a trend since several years now, some companies are also looking into self hosted solutions to build a private cloud. Some do this because of costs, others do this because they don’t want to be dependent on one ore multiple public cloud providers, others do it because they want to keep their data locally. There are…
Disclaimer: This will not be a technical post at all. The goal is to provide a short overview of what we did in 2016 and what we plan to do in 2017 when it comes to our Open Infrastructure division. We’ll start with a few figures then look at the events we did and some of the projects we completed…
In the two first blogs, I installed the Fuel environment and deployed OpenStack in the Fuel slave nodes and all of that from the Fuel Master node. In this blog, I will show you all the steps to follow in order to create an instance in OpenStack. All is going to be done via the Command Line Interface and not…
The last blog ended up with a successful installation of the Fuel Master. In this blog, I will deploy Openstack on the three Fuel slave nodes. The first node will be the controller node and all these components run on it: a MySQL database RabbitMQ : which is the message broker that OpenStack uses for inter-communication (asynchronous) between the OpenStack…
In this series of blogs, I am going to give a quick overview of OpenStack and learn how to install it using Mirantis. “Mirantis is the #1 pure play OpenStack company. More customers rely on Mirantis than any other company to scale out OpenStack without vendor lock-in” (source: https://www.openstack.org/marketplace/distros/distribution/mirantis/mirantis-openstack) OpenStack is an open source Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform…
