April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
280 pages
8h 37m
English
OpenStack can be installed in a distributed environment with each component installed on a separate host. This setup is suitable for production environments. However, for application development environments, the OpenStack community provides a smaller and lighter version of OpenStack that can be quickly installed. This small version of OpenStack is called DevStack. Developers have access to all components of OpenStack and can easily make code changes or develop OpenStack applications on the DevStack environment.
An explanation of a multi-node installation of OpenStack is beyond the scope of this book. We will install DevStack on a Ubuntu 16.04 virtual machine running on the VirtualBox platform.
The following steps must ...