All In One OpenStack Icehouse on CentOS 6.6 in VirtualBox

With so much great virtualization out there, I obviously had to take a look at OpenStack and see how it works and what interesting network things you can do with it. There are tons and tons of blog posts about installing OpenStack. But as with other posts, these are the steps that I used and I want them saved somewhere for safe keeping. I had lots of options for choosing a platform, but I ended up using CentOS since it is closer to other enterprise operating systems like RHEL and Oracle Linux.

I’m going to start simple and just try an All In One installation. The following instructions are for installing an all in one OpenStack Icehouse on CentOS 6.6 in VirtualBox. For CentOS, I started with the CentOS 6.6 Minimal DVD to keep the footprint small.

First step is to create the VM and install CentOS.
CPU: 4
RAM: 2048
HD: 50G preallocate

For my VM, I bridged the VM to my host adapter. My public VM IP is 192.160.10.161

Next, let’s make sure all our packages are up to date.

yum update -y
reboot

Add OpenStack Icehouse specific repo to yum

yum install -y http://rdo.fedorapeople.org/openstack-icehouse/rdo-release-icehouse.rpm

Install packages to get ready

yum install -y epel-release
yum install -y openstack-packstack wget screen

Modify packstack file to allow install on CentOS
Edit /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/packstack/plugins/serverprep_001.py

if config['HOST_DETAILS'][host]['os'] in ('Fedora', 'Unknown'):

TO

if config['HOST_DETAILS'][host]['os'] in ('Fedora', 'CentOS', 'Unknown'):

Install OpenStack using packstack. I’m not trying anything fancy yet, so I won’t install Swift of Ceilometer. This part can take a long time to run. So go grab a coffee or two or three.

packstack --install-hosts=127.0.0.1 --use-epel=n --provision-demo=n --os-swift-install=n --os-ceilometer-install=n

Become admin user

source ./keystonerc_admin

Let’s add an image to Glance

mkdir /tmp/images
wget -P /tmp/images http://cdn.download.cirros-cloud.net/0.3.3/cirros-0.3.3-x86_64-disk.img
glance image-create --name "cirros-0.3.3-x86_64" --file /tmp/images/cirros-0.3.3-x86_64-disk.img \
--disk-format qcow2 --container-format bare --is-public True --progress

Create a smaller flavor size since we are running on limited memory

nova flavor-create --is-public true m1.micro 6 256 2 1

Set VNC proxy to be from my VM IP address so I can open the console from my host PC.

openstack-config --set /etc/nova/nova.conf DEFAULT novncproxy_base_url http://192.168.10.161:6080/vnc_auto.html

Configure Nova to use Qemu instead of KVM since we are running inside a VM.

openstack-config --set /etc/nova/nova.conf libvirt virt_type qemu
openstack-config --set /etc/nova/nova.conf DEFAULT compute_driver libvirt.LibvirtDriver
setsebool -P virt_use_execmem on
ln -s /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64
service libvirtd restart
service openstack-nova-compute restart

All done.  Now go create some Networks and Instances.

From this point, I just followed the exercises I found on the following page for creating networks and instances.
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/systems/hands-on-labs/hol-openstack-linux-ovm-2399741.html

My next post coming up soon will be about how I got a mutlinode OpenStack running using VirtualBox.

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