RDO

Quick guide on setting up the OpenStack Juno release in an all in one server with one NIC using RDO. This is configured for Neutron networking with floating IPs. My setup: CentOS 7 minimal, IP: 192.168.1.100 By default NetworkManager will be running and controlling our NICs. packstack will complain about this later so disable and stop the service. [root@juno-allinone ~]# systemctl disable NetworkManager [root@juno-allinone ~]# systemctl stop NetworkManager Next we’ll update some stuff, install the RDO Juno repo and install packstack. ...

I use XenServer 6.2 as my hypervisor at home to run anywhere from 5-10 VMs. But I wanted to change up this setup and move to OpenStack Private Cloud deployment. Yes, it’s overkill for my use but oh well. I’ve messed around a few times with using OpenStack as replacement for my XenServer 6.2 setup, but always ran into an issue, usually getting the networking correct given my home network. Luckily with the OpenStack Havana release networking has become much simpler to get my head around and deploy. Also, a number of OpenStack installer scripts and how to guides have improved since the early OpenStack releases. For my deployment I used Red Hat’s RDO and packstack to deploy OpenStack Havana. From Red Hat, “RDO is a community of people using and deploying OpenStack on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora and distributions derived from these (such as CentOS, Scientific Linux and others).”. ...