⁠6.6. Provisioning Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform

⁠6.6.1. Provisioning Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform

Use a deployment to provision RHEL OpenStack Platform on one or more hosts.
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Procedure 6.11. Provisioning Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform

  1. Click OpenStack Installer → Deployments.
  2. Click the name of the deployment to provision.
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    The deployment details page

    Figure 6.10. The deployment details page

  3. Click Deploy to open the deployment confirmation screen.
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    The deployment confirmation screen

    Figure 6.11. The deployment confirmation screen

  4. Click Deploy.
Hosts assigned to roles in the deployment are moved to the production environment, which contains the Puppet classes required to provision RHEL OpenStack Platform. The hosts are provisioned in accordance with the role to which they are assigned in the deployment, and the progress of provisioning is displayed.

⁠6.6.2. Retrieving Service Details

After you have provisioned your RHEL OpenStack Platform environment, the installer provides a list of details for that environment such as service passwords and the location of the Horizon dashboard.
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Procedure 6.12. Retrieving Service Details

  1. Click OpenStack Installer → Deployments.
  2. Click the name of a deployment you have provisioned.
  3. Review the details of the deployment.
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    The service details page

    Figure 6.12. The service details page

  4. Optionally, click the Access all details button to display the All details window, which displays a list of the passwords for all services in your environment.

⁠6.6.3. Logging In

Once at least one controller node and one compute node are successfully installed and configured, you can access the user interface with a web browser. Replace HOSTNAME with the host name or IP address of the server acting as the controller:
  • HTTPS 
    https://HOSTNAME/dashboard/
  • HTTP 
    http://HOSTNAME/dashboard/
When prompted, log in using the credentials of the admin user. To begin using the OpenStack deployment, see the Administration User Guide and Cloud Administrator Guide.
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The Dashboard Login Screen

Figure 6.13. The Dashboard Login Screen

⁠6.6.4. Next Steps

After you have provisioned your RHEL OpenStack Platform environment, all additional configuration of services in the environment must be performed individually on the nodes in the environment. See the following documentation in the RHEL OpenStack Platform documentation suite for information on how to get started working with your environment and performing additional configuration.

Important

If you change the values of settings that the installer configures when it provisions a host, the newly configured values are overwritten when a Puppet run is performed on the host. To prevent these changes from being overwritten, you must stop the puppet service on the host.
Administration User Guide
Provides an overview of how to create and manage resources in a RHEL OpenStack Platform environment using the Horizon dashboard or client commands for administrative users.
End User Guide
Provides an overview of how to create and manage resources in a RHEL OpenStack Platform environment using the Horizon dashboard or client commands for end users.
Cloud Administrator Guide
Provides an overview of the software that administrators can use to manage and troubleshoot a RHEL OpenStack Platform environment.
Configuration Reference Guide
Provides a reference for administrative users for looking up configuration options. This guide contains lists of the configuration options available with RHEL OpenStack Platform and uses auto-generation to generate options and the descriptions from the code for each project.