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Chapter 9. Install the Orchestration Service
9.1. Install the Orchestration Service Packages
The Orchestration service requires the following packages:
- openstack-heat-api
- Provides the OpenStack-native REST API to the Orchestration engine service.
- openstack-heat-api-cfn
- Provides the AWS CloudFormation-compatible API to the Orchestration engine service.
- openstack-heat-common
- Provides components common to all Orchestration services.
- openstack-heat-engine
- Provides the OpenStack API for launching templates and submitting events back to the API.
- openstack-heat-api-cloudwatch
- Provides the AWS CloudWatch-compatible API to the Orchestration engine service.
- heat-cfntools
- Provides the tools required on
heat-provisioned cloud instances. - python-heatclient
- Provides a Python API and command-line script, both of which make up a client for the Orchestration API service.
- openstack-utils
- Provides supporting utilities to assist with a number of tasks, including the editing of configuration files.
Install the packages:
#yum install -y openstack-heat-* python-heatclient openstack-utils

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