I’ll be starting with setting up a general purpose OpenStack environment as described in the architecture design description. Only the most basic of components will be considered at this point:
- Compute (nova)
- Networking (neutron)
- Image service (glance)
- Identity (keystone)
- Dashboard (horizon)
- Telemetry (ceilometer)
I’ll be skipping Object storage (swift) and Block storage (cinder) for now.
Ceilometer is also optional, but will be included to collect usage data for learning purposes.
Several virtual machines will be set up:
- A controller node: 1 CPU, 4GB RAM, 20GB storage
- Identity (keystone)
- Dashboard (horizon)
- Telemetry (ceilometer)
- Image service (glance)
- This node will have 2 networking interfaces:
- Management network
- Tunnel network
- A networking node: 1 CPU, 4GB RAM, 10GB storage
- Networking (neutron)
- This node will have 3 networking interfaces:
- Management network
- Tunnel network
- The Internet
- And a compute node: 2 CPU, 8GB RAM, 20GB storage
- Compute (nova)
- This node will have 2 networking interfaces:
- Management network
- Tunnel network
Sizing and resizing of these virtual machines can be done later on with: http://libguestfs.org/virt-resize.1.html
I’ve decided to go for an Ubuntu Server 16.04 installation for the OpenStack virtual machines, because it is claimed to have better support for the OpenStack components than debian.
Three networks will be created:
- Management network: NAT to eth0 on the host machine
- Tunnel network: host only network bridge
- Internet: directly assigned to networking node (if possible)
Following the installation guide here, I installed three Ubuntu virtual machines, version 16.04.1 LTS. I’ve set up the provider network, configured DNS, NTP, and added the Openstack apt repository. Do note that the install guide is specified for Openstack version Mitaka, Ubuntu Xenial will only support Openstack Newton, which is still under development at this moment.