I've been wanting to try out Openstack for a while and I finally made the time to do a test setup. Now there is a Devstack setup which was really easy to setup but I wanted to do a full production setup. So here are the steps I took. Of course I haven't added all the information here. I do have a reference section where you can get a lot more information.

Download the current Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Click here to download.

Setting up your server.

Make sure system is up to date.

# apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

Install Openssh and lvm2

# apt-get install openssh-client openssh-server lvm2

Install time service.

# apt-get install ntp

Edit the /etc/ntp.conf and information below.

driftfile /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift

server ntp.ubuntu.com iburst
server 127.127.1.0
fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 10

Install some utilities for Iscsi needed for nova-volume.

# apt-get install tgt open-iscsi open-iscsi-utils

Need to add hard drive for Nova volume.

# fdisk /dev/sdb

# pvcreate -ff /dev/sdb1

# vgcreate nova-volumes /dev/sdb1

Eanble ip_forward

# vi /etc/sysctl.conf

 uncomment net.ipv4.ip_forward=1

# sysctl -p (This will load the sysctl.conf file)

Network setup. Edit the /etc/network/interfaces

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.220
network 192.168.1.0
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast 192.168.1.255
gateway 192.168.1.1
dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet static
address 10.10.0.10
network 10.10.0.0
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast 10.10.0.255

Make sure you have the bridge Utils package installed.

# apt-get install bridge-utils

Restart your network.

# /etc/init.d/networking restart

More software that is needed.

# apt-get install rabbitmq-server memcached python-memcache kvm libvirt-bin mysql-server python-mysqldb

When installing libvirt it creates a default nat interface which I wanted removed.

# virsh net-destroy default
# virsh net-undefine default

When installing MySQL it asked for a password, which I setup. You will need this later.

Edit the MySQL vi /etc/mysql/my.cnf file and make this change.

bind-address = 127.0.0.1

bind-address = 0.0.0.0

Restart MySQL

# service mysql restart

You will need to setup some databases and users.

mysql -u root -p (Enter password)
CREATE DATABASE nova;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON nova.* TO 'novadbadmin'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

CREATE DATABASE glance;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON glance.* TO 'glancedbadmin'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

CREATE DATABASE keystone;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON keystone.* TO 'keystonedbadmin'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
quit

 Installing and configuring Keystone.

# apt-get install keystone python-keystone python-mysqldb python-keystoneclient

Edit /etc/keystone/keystone.conf and change sql connection type to

connection = mysql://keystonedbadmin:[email protected]/keystone

 Restart the keystone service.

# service keystone restart

Lets create some tables for keystone.

# keystone-manage db_sync

Now we need some data in the database.

# wget http://www.hastexo.com/system/files/user/4/keystone_data.sh__0.txt

# wget http://www.hastexo.com/system/files/user/4/endpoints.sh__0.txt

# mv keystone_data.sh__0.txt keystone_data.sh

# mv endpoints.sh__0.txt endpoints.sh

Lets make these scripts executable.

# chmod + keystone_data.sh endpoints.sh

Edit the keystone_data.sh and change the entry below. This will be the password you set early.

ADMIN_PASSWORD=${ADMIN_PASSWORD:-password}
export SERVICE_TOKEN="ADMIN"

Now lets run the keystone_data.sh script.

# ./keystone_data.sh (If everything is OK, the script will end without errors.)

Now you need to configure some endpoints.

# ./endpoints.sh -m 192.168.1.220 -u keystonedbadmin -D keystone -p password -K 192.168.1.220 -R RegionOne -E "http://localhost:35357/v2.0" -S 192.168.1.220 -T ADMIN

Installing and configuring Glance

# apt-get install glance glance-api glance-client glance-common glance-registry python-glance

Edit /etc/glance/glance-api-paste.ini and change below.

admin_tenant_name = service
admin_user = glance
admin_password = password

Edit /etc/glance/glance-registry-paste.ini and change below.

admin_tenant_name = service
admin_user = glance
admin_password = password

Next lets edit /etc/glance/glance-registry.conf

Look for sql_connection entry and replace with below.

sql_connection = mysql://glancedbadmin:[email protected]/glance  

At the end of this file add

[paste_deploy]
flavor = keystone

At the end of this file /etc/glance/glance-api.conf add

[paste_deploy]
flavor = keystone

# glance-manage version_control 0
# glance-manage db_sync

# service glance-api restart && service glance-registry restart

We'll be using a Ubuntu UEC image for this. Download one:

# wget http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/releases/12.04/release/
ubuntu-12.04-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img

# glance add name="Ubuntu 12.04 cloudimg amd64" is_public=true container_format=ovf
 disk_format=qcow2 < ubuntu-12.04-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img

Stop:
# for a in libvirt-bin nova-network nova-compute nova-cert nova-api nova-objectstore
 nova-scheduler nova-volume novnc nova-consoleauth; do service "$a" stop; done

Start:
# for a in libvirt-bin nova-network nova-compute nova-cert nova-api nova-objectstore
 nova-scheduler nova-volume novnc nova-consoleauth; do service "$a" start; done