Extending OpenStack

Rolling OpenStack Sahara service

In the following section, we will integrate and configure Sahara in an existing OpenStack environment:

1. Install the Sahara CLI and API services package on the cloud controller nodes:

# yum install openstack-sahara

2. Configure the Sahara database by entering the database connection URL in the main Sahara configuration file. Make sure that you create a valid database:

    # vim /etc/sahara/sahara.conf
    ...
    [database]
    connection mysql://sahara:sahara@192.168.47.47:3306/sahara
    ...  

3. Create a Sahara database schema:

# sahara-db-manage --config-file /etc/sahara/sahara.conf \ upgrade head

4. The next step requires a valid identification of the Sahara service in the OpenStack environment. As with any other OpenStack service, ...