Common OpenStack Deployments: Real-World Examples for Systems Administrators and Engineers

A. Reference Deployment

The authors of this book have worked hard to make the demonstration Puppet deployments work on the user’s preferred hardware or virtualization configuration. In Chapter 3, “Networking,” there are diagrams which demonstrate the logical and physical diagrams for how a system should be set up.

If you are struggling with your own configuration or don’t have a preference as to the tooling you use, the following is a reference deployment you can use that has been tested. We make all the decisions about the hardware, software and virtualization technology required.

Requirements

This reference deployment will use a single computer (server, desktop or laptop) running Ubuntu 14.04. The controller and compute host will be run virtually ...