packstack tutorial

Setting up local OpenStack environemt

This is a quick tutorial for setting up OpenStack environment on your development machine. We will be using Packstack tool which is able to setup ALL the OpenStack components (as opposed to DevStack that is unable to setup Newtron and some other components).

The setup is quite simple, yet it should take you about an hour.

What will be the result

Following this tutorial you will end up with Virtualbox VM that:

• will have CentOS 7 operating system with or without GUI (we've opted-in for non-GUI)
• will be consuming about 4 GB disk on fresh install and will require 6 GB RAM
• will have a single network adapter attached (bridged type). VM will be able to access internet thru this adapter and also OpenStack will allocate Floating Ips that this adapter will be able to reach. This means that you will be able to ping/ssh to OpenStack instances by their floating IP from within the Virtualbox CentOS VM.
• will have OpenStack Mitaka installed and working with all of its components (Horizon will be accessible at http:///dashboard also from your host system)

Note that it will not be possible:

• to access OpenStack instances from outside of the Virtualbox CentOS VM. But it will be possible to access all OpenStack services from outside.