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Install the image created by appliance-creator using virt-manager. You will probably need 3 GB of memory to successfully install OpenStack. Now you are ready to follow the RDO ‘quick start’ instructions (http://openstack.redhat.com/Quickstart). The following commands are fairly quick: # yum install -y http://rdo.fedorapeople.org/rdo-release.rpm # yum install -y openstack-packstack
The packstack command makes it simple to install OpenStack and the dependencies. It uses Puppet. However, the packstack command may take a long time, depending on the network and download speeds (I usually find it better to add ‘&country=us,ca’ to Fedora and update repositories for the Indian environment). # packstack --allinone
You may find that the above command fails to run the remote script after setting up the ssh keys. If so, you need to set up authorised keys. # cat /root/.ssh/id_rsa.pub >> /root/.ssh/authorized_keys
The first time Packstack is run, it creates an answer file with a name like packstack-answers-X-Y.txt. You will need to reuse the same answers in case you have to rerun Packstack.
Figure 1: OpenStack
After Packstack completes successfully, the local cloud is ready. You can browse the site http://$VM-IPADDRESS/dashboard.
Some things to think about
What do you do with the local cloud you have set up? How do you create and manage the virtual machines that you need?
# packstack –answer-file packstack-answers-X-Y.txt
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