Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4

Getting Started Guide

Getting Started with Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform

22 Oct 2014

Bruce Reeler

Red Hat Customer Content Services

Deepti Navale

Red Hat Customer Content Services

Don Domingo

Red Hat Customer Content Services

Scott Radvan

Red Hat Customer Content Services

Steve Gordon

Red Hat Customer Content Services

Summer Long

Red Hat Customer Content Services

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Abstract

This guide covers the basic getting started tasks for OpenStack Havana. The deployment method described here uses PackStack for proof of concept deployments, and is not meant for production environments.
Preface
1. Document Conventions
1.1. Typographic Conventions
1.2. Pull-quote Conventions
1.3. Notes and Warnings
2. Getting Help and Giving Feedback
2.1. Do You Need Help?
2.2. We Need Feedback!
I. Introduction
1. Product Introduction
1.1. Overview
1.2. Architecture
1.3. The PackStack Deployment Utility
1.4. OpenStack Service Details
1.4.1. Dashboard Service
1.4.2. Identity Service
1.4.3. OpenStack Networking Service
1.4.4. Block Storage Service
1.4.5. Compute Service
1.4.6. Image Service
1.4.7. Object Storage Service
1.4.8. Telemetry
1.4.9. Orchestration
1.5. Supported Virtual Machine Operating Systems
1.6. Additional Documentation
2. Product Requirements
2.1. Software Requirements
2.1.1. Operating System Requirements
2.1.2. Configuring Software Repositories
2.1.3. Disable Network Manager
2.2. Hardware Requirements
2.2.1. Single Node ("All in One") Deployments
2.2.2. Cloud Controller Deployment with One or More Compute Nodes
2.2.3. Configuring Storage
II. Deploying OpenStack using PackStack
3. Selecting Components to Deploy
4. Installing PackStack
5. Running PackStack
5.1. Quick Start Deployment using PackStack
5.2. Running PackStack Interactively
5.3. Running PackStack Non-interactively
5.3.1. Generating a PackStack Answer File
5.3.2. Editing a PackStack Answer File
5.3.3. Running PackStack with an Answer File
6. PackStack and Passwords
6.1. Password Locations
6.2. Commands to Change Passwords
III. Using OpenStack
7. Using OpenStack With the Dashboard
7.1. Accessing the Dashboard
7.2. Uploading a Disk Image
7.3. Creating a Keypair
7.4. Creating a Network
7.5. Launching an Instance
7.6. Creating a Volume
7.7. Attaching a Volume
7.8. Creating an Instance Snapshot
7.9. Adding a Rule to a Security Group
7.10. Adding Floating IP Addresses
7.11. Creating a Router
7.12. Controlling the State of an Instance (Pause, Suspend, Reboot)
7.13. Deleting an Instance
8. Using OpenStack With the Command Line Interface
8.1. Authenticating with the Identity service
8.2. Uploading a Disk Image
8.3. Creating or Adding a Keypair
8.4. Launching a Compute Instance
8.5. Creating a Volume
8.6. Attaching a Volume
8.7. Accessing a Volume from a Running Instance
8.8. Creating an Instance Snapshot
8.9. Working with Compute Networking
8.9.1. Creating a Network
8.9.2. Adding a Rule to a Security Group
8.9.3. Adding Floating IP Addresses
8.10. Working with OpenStack Networking
8.10.1. Creating an External Network
8.10.2. Creating a Router
8.10.3. Adding a Rule to a Security Group
8.10.4. Defining a Floating IP-Address Pool
8.10.5. Associating the Floating IP Addresses
8.11. Controlling Instance State (Suspend, Resume, Reboot, Terminate)
8.12. Deleting Instances
IV. Monitoring OpenStack PackStack Deployments
9. Monitoring OpenStack Using Nagios
9.1. Accessing the Nagios Dashboard
9.2. Default Nagios Configuration
9.3. Starting, Stopping and Restarting Nagios
10. Service Log Files
10.1. Block Storage Service Log Files
10.2. Compute Service Log Files
10.3. Dashboard Log Files
10.4. Identity Service Log Files
10.5. Image Service Log Files
10.6. Monitoring Service Log File
10.7. OpenStack Networking Service Log Files
10.8. OpenStack Telemetry
10.9. OpenStack Orchestration
A. Removing PackStack Deployments
A.1. Completely removing OpenStack, application data and all packages
A.2. Removing only OpenStack specific application data and packages
B. Revision History