Chapter 1. Introduction to OpenStack and its Deployment Using Packages

In this chapter, we will cover the following:

  • Configuring host prerequisites
  • Installing MariaDB database
  • Installing RabbitMQ
  • Installing Keystone – Identity service
  • Generating and configuring tokens PKIs
  • Installing Glance – images service
  • Installing Nova – Compute service
  • Installing Neutron networking service
  • Configuring Neutron network node
  • Configuring compute node for Neutron
  • Installing Horizon – web user interface dashboard

Introduction

OpenStack is a cloud operating system software that allows running and managing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds on the standard commodity hardware. OpenStack is not an operating system of its own, which manages bare metal hardware machines, is ...

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