The Swift AKA OpenStack Object Storage is a multi-tenant object storage system, provides a distributed scale-out object store across storage nodes that are in the cluster. This guide helps you to configure swift on Ubuntu 14.04.2. There are two main components in Swift: Swift proxy: It accepts API and raw http requests to upload files, […]
This is the second part of OpenStack Kilo on Ubuntu 14.04.2 – Configure Cinder, in this tutorial we will install and configure Storage Node for the Cinder service. For a demo purpose, will configure this storage node with a block storage device /dev/sdb that contains partition /dev/sdb1 occupying the entire disk. Prerequisites: The following is […]
Cinder AKA OpenStack block storage service ads the persistent storage to an instance, it also provides an infrastructure for managing volumes and interacts with compute service to provide volume for instance. The amount of storage is provisioned and consumed is determined the block storage drivers, there are a variety of drivers that are available: NAS/SAN, […]
In the last tutorial, we have had created an instance using CLI; same can be done through a web interface called Horizon. It enables us to manage various OpenStack resources and services. This guide helps you to configure horizon in Ubuntu 14.04. Horizon uses OpenStack API’s to interact with the cloud controller, you can also […]
This guide shows you how to launch an instance of Fedora 22 image that we added in OpenStack Kilo on Ubuntu 14.04.2 – Glance. Here we will be using command line interface on the controller node to create an instance, this tutorial launches an instance using OpenStack Networking (neutron). Load the admin credentials on the […]
This is the fourth part of configuring neutron (Networking) on Ubuntu 14.04, you can go through previous article on Configure Neutron #1 , Configure Neutron #2, and Configure Neutron #3 in which we have installed and configured Networking components on Controller, Network, and Compute node. Here, we will be creating initial network, this must be […]
This is the third part of configuring neutron (Networking) on Ubuntu 14.04, you can go through previous article on Configure Neutron #1 and Configure Neutron #2 in which we have installed and configured Networking components on Controller node and Network Node. Here, we will be configuring compute node to use neutron. Prerequisites: Configure kernel parameters on […]
This is the second part of configuring neutron (Networking) on Ubuntu 14.04, you can go through previous article on Configure Neutron #1, in which we have installed and configured Networking components on Controller node. Here, in this tutorial we will install and configure Network Node. Prerequisite: Make sure you have enabled OpenStack Kilo repository on […]
OpenStack Networking allows you to create or attach interface device to networks, this guide helps you to configure Neutron (Networking) on OpenStack environment. Neutron manages all networking related things that are required for Virtual Networking Infrastructure, it provides the networks, subnets, and router object abstractions. Install and configure controller node: Before we configure Neutron service, […]
This guide helps you to configure Nova (Compute) service on OpenStak environment, in OpenStack, compute service (node) is used to host and manage cloud computing systems. OpenStack compute is a major part in IaaS, it interacts with KeyStone for authentication, image service for disk and images, and dashboard for the user and administrative interface. OpenStack […]