OpenStack Kilo Lab Installation and Configuration Guide

Overview

In this article we will focus on installing and configuring OpenStack Kilo using RDO and the packstack installer. RDO is a community platform around Red Hat's OpenStack Platform. It allows you to test the latest OpenStack capabilities on a stable platform such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or CentOS. This guide will take you through installing the OpenStack Kilo release, configuring networking, security groups, flavors, images and are other OpenStack related services. The outcome is a working OpenStack environment based on the Kilo release that you can use as a baseline for testing your applications with OpenStack capabilities. A big thanks to Red Hatter, Goetz Rieger who contributed some of this content.

Install and Configure OpenStack Kilo

• Install RHEL or CentOS 7.1.
• Ensure name resolution is working

#vi /etc/hosts

192.168.122.80 osp7.lab.com osp7

• Ensure the hostname is set statically.

#hostnamectl set-hostname osp7.lab.com

• Disable network manager.

#systemctl disable NetworkManager.service

• Disable firewalld to make configuration easier.

 #systemctl disable firewalld.service

• For RHEL systems register with subscription manager.

 #subscription-manager register
 #subscription-manager subscribe --auto
 #subscription-manager repos --disable=*
 #subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-7-server-rpms
 #subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-7-server-openstack-7.0-rpms

• Install yum-utils and update the system.

 #yum install -y yum-utils
 #yum update -y
 #reboot

• Install packstack packages.

 #yum install -y openstack-packstack

• Create packstack answers file for customizing the installer.

 #packstack --gen-answer-file /root/answers.txt

• Update the packstack answers file.

#vi /root/answers.txt
 CONFIG_KEYSTONE_ADMIN_PW=redhat
 CONFIG_HORIZON_SSL=y
 CONFIG_PROVISION_DEMO=n
 CONFIG_HEAT_INSTALL=y
 CONFIG_HEAT_CLOUDWATCH_INSTALL=y
 CONFIG_HEAT_CFN_INSTALL=y
 CONFIG_SAHARA_INSTALL=y
 CONFIG_TROVE_INSTALL=y
 CONFIG_CEILOMETER_INSTALL=y
 CONFIG_LBAAS_INSTALL=y

• Install OpenStack using packstack from RDO.

#packstack --answer-file /root/answers.txt

. /root/keystonerc_admin

• Check status of openstack services.

#openstack-status

• Backup the ifcfg-etho script.

#cp /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 /root/

• Configure external bridge for floating ip networks.

#vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
 DEVICE=eth0
 ONBOOT=yes
 TYPE=OVSPort
 DEVICETYPE=ovs
 OVS_BRIDGE=br-ex

#vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-br-ex
 DEVICE=br-ex
 BOOTPROTO=static
 ONBOOT=yes
 TYPE=OVSBridge
 DEVICETYPE=ovs
 USERCTL=yes
 PEERDNS=yes
 IPV6INIT=no
 IPADDR=<www.xxx.yyy.zzz>
 NETMASK=255.255.255.0
 GATEWAY=<GW IP>
 DNS1=<DNS IP>

• Add the eht0 physical interface to the br-ex bridge in openVswitch for floating IP networks.

#ovs-vsctl add-port br-ex eth0 ; systemctl restart network.service

• Create private network.

#neutron net-create private

#neutron subnet-create private 10.10.1.0/24 --name private_subnet --allocation-pool start=10.10.1.100,end=10.10.1.200

• Create public network. Note: these steps assume the physical network connected to eth0 is 192.168.122.0/24.

#neutron net-create public --router:external

#neutron subnet-create public 192.168.122.0/24 --name public_subnet --allocation-pool start=192.168.122.100,end=192.168.122.200 --disable-dhcp --gateway 192.168.122.1

• Add a new router and configure router interfaces.

#neutron router-create router1 --ha False

#neutron router-gateway-set router1 public

#neutron router-interface-add router1 private_subnet

• Upload a glance image. In this case we will use a Cirros image because it is small and thus good for testing OpenStack.

#glance image-create --name "Cirros 0.3.4" --disk-format qcow2 --container-format bare --is-public True --copy http://download.cirros-cloud.net/0.3.4/cirros-0.3.4-x86_64-disk.img

• Create a new m1.nano flavor for running Cirros image.

#nova flavor-create m1.nano 42 64 0 1

• Create security group and allow all TCP ports.

#nova secgroup-create all "Allow all tcp ports"

#nova secgroup-add-rule all TCP 1 65535 0.0.0.0/0

• Create security group for base access

#nova secgroup-create base "Allow Base Access"

#nova secgroup-add-rule base TCP 22 22 0.0.0.0/0

#nova secgroup-add-rule base TCP 80 80 0.0.0.0/0

#nova secgroup-add-rule base ICMP -1 -1 0.0.0.0/0

• Create a private ssh key for connecting to instances remotely.

#nova keypair-add admin

• Create admin.pem file and add private key from output of keypair-add command.

#vi /root/admin.pem

#chmod 400 /root/admin.pem

• List the network IDs.

# neutron net-list
 +--------------------------------------+---------+-------------------------------------------------------+
 | id | name | subnets |
 +--------------------------------------+---------+-------------------------------------------------------+
 | d4f3ed19-8be4-4d56-9f95-cfbac9fdf670 | private | 92d82f53-6e0b-4eef-b8b9-cae32cf40457 10.10.1.0/24     |
 | 37c024d6-8108-468c-bc25-1748db7f5e8f | public  | 22f2e901-186f-4041-ad93-f7b5ccc30a81 192.168.122.0/24 |

• Start an instance and make sure to replace network id from above command.

#nova boot --flavor m1.nano --image "Cirros 0.3.4" --nic net-id=92d82f53-6e0b-4eef-b8b9-cae32cf40457 --key-name admin --security-groups all mycirros

• Create a floating IP and assign it to the mycirros instance.

#nova floating-ip-create

#nova floating-ip-associate mycirros <FLOATING IP>

• Connect to mycirros instance using the private ssh key stored in the admin.pem file.

#ssh -i admin.pem cirros@192.168.122.233

Summary

This article was intended as a hands on guide for standing up an OpenStack Kilo lab using RDO. As mentioned RDO is a stable community platform built around Red Hat's OpenStack Platform. It provides the ability to test the latest OpenStack features against either an enterprise platform (RHEL) or community platform (CentOS). Hopefully you found the information in this article useful. If you have anything to add or feedback, feel free to leave your comments.

Happy OpenStacking!

(c) 2015 Keith Tenzer