Installing OpenStack
The steps in this section document the installation of OpenStack services, including Keystone, Glance, Nova Compute, and Horizon on a single controller and two compute nodes. Neutron, the OpenStack Networking service, will be installed in the next chapter.
Installing and configuring the MySQL database server
On the controller node, use apt-get to install the MySQL database service and related Python packages:
# apt-get install mariadb-server python-mysqldb
If prompted, set the password to openstack.
Note
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