Here we are going to deploy openstack on a single node, i.e all openstack components Nova, Glance, Keystone, Quantum and Horizon will be running in the same box. Nova-compute is also running on the same machine which will provision virtual machines on the KVM.
Requirements:
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Ubuntu 12.04 running on Oracle VirtualBox with two NIC ‘s.
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Setup a ubuntu virtual machine in virtualBox. (can follow Guide http://ilearnstack.wordpress.com/2013/04/13/setting-ubuntu-vm-in-virtualbox/)
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Add a second NIC to the VM.
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Power Off the Virtual Machine
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In the Network Section select Adapter 2 tab
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Select “Attached to:” to internal
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Power On the VM
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When the VM boots up configure to network for second NIC Edit /etc/network/interfaces to something like
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Restart Network service service networking restart
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You can verify your network setting using “ ifconfig ”
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Login to the ubuntu VM.
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Change the user to root. sudo -i
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If your network is behind proxy then please export proxy variables. export http_proxy= export https_proxy= export no_proxy=”localhost,127.0.0.1″
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Install git on the machine apt-get install git -y
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Clone the CloudGear git to install Openstack git clone https://github.com/ilearnstack/cloudgear.git
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Execute the script to set up openstack cd cloudgear/ python cloudgear.py
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Open Openstack Dashboard in browser from URL http:///horizon
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Login with credentials admin/secret
You can refer to the step by step guide at Our Blog http://ilearnstack.wordpress.com/2013/04/26/setting-up-a-single-node-openstack-environment/ Please Post your Comments to the page or write to us at learnstack@googlegroups.com for any issues faced with the script.