[...]... your own environments OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook gives you clear, step-by-step instructions to install and run your own private cloud successfully It is full of practical and applicable recipes that enable you to use the latest capabilities of OpenStack and implement them Preface What this book covers Chapter 1, Starting OpenStack Compute, teaches you how to set up and use OpenStack Compute running... an admin user which we will call openstack as follows: sudo nova-manage user admin openstack 2 We then assign the openstack user to the cloudadmin role as follows: sudo nova-manage role add openstack cloudadmin 3 Once we have that role assigned, which is appropriate for this section to run as the cloudadmin role, we can create a project for this user that we will call cookbook We do this as follows:... http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/releases/precise/release/ubuntu12.04-server-cloudimg-i386.tar.gz 2 Once downloaded, we need to install the cloud- utils package that provides tools to upload images to our OpenStack Compute environment: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get -y install cloud- utils 3 We can then proceed to upload this to our OpenStack Compute installation using the cloud- publish-tarball command provided by the cloud- utils package cloud- publish-tarball... be authorized Cloud instances rely on keypairs for access The following commands will create a keypair named openstack: To create our keypair using euca2ools, use the following commands: euca-add-keypair openstack > openstack. pem chmod 0600 *.pem 5 To create your keypair using Nova Client, use the following commands: nova keypair-add openstack > openstack. pem chmod 0600.pem 21 Starting OpenStack Compute... Administering OpenStack Compute, teaches you how to manage user accounts and security groups as well as how to deal with cloud images to run in an OpenStack environment Chapter 3, Keystone OpenStack Identity Service, takes you through installation and configuration of Keystone, which underpins all of the other OpenStack services Chapter 4, Installing OpenStack Storage, teaches you how to configure and use OpenStack. .. to be present for a cloud instance to work (as in the previous example) but sometimes you may come across cloud images that have these See also ff The Using public cloud images recipe in Chapter 2, Administering OpenStack Compute Launching your first cloud instance Now that we have a running OpenStack Compute environment and a machine image to use, its now time to spin up our first cloud instance! This... a running OpenStack Compute environment, it's time to upload an image for us to use An image is a machine template, which is cloned when we spin up new cloud instances Images used in Amazon, known as AMIs (or Amazon Machine Images) can often be used in OpenStack For this next section, we will use an Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud image, which can be used in both Amazon and our OpenStack Compute cloud instance... Terminating your instance Starting OpenStack Compute Introduction OpenStack Compute, also known as Nova, is the compute component of the open source cloud operating system, OpenStack It is the component that allows you to run multiple instances of virtual machines on any number of hosts running the OpenStack Compute service, allowing you to create a highly scalable and redundant cloud environment The open... Hard Drive VBoxManage storagectl openstack1 name "SATA Controller" add sata controller IntelAHCI hostiocache on bootable on VBoxManage createhd filename openstack1 .vdi size 20480 VBoxManage storageattach openstack1 storagectl "SATA Controller" port 0 device 0 type hdd medium openstack1 .vdi 3 We are now ready to power on our OpenStack1 node Do this by selecting OpenStack1 Virtual Machine and... our OpenStack Compute environment This is an ideal way to start working with OpenStack within a small development environment such as our sandbox For larger, production ready environments, Keystone is used, which is covered in Chapter 6, Administering OpenStack Storage The cloudadmin account group is the equivalent of the root user on a Unix/Linux host It has access to all aspects of your Nova cloud . class="bi x0 y0 w0 h0" alt="" OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook Over 100 recipes to successfully set up and manage your OpenStack cloud environments with. 67 Conguring OpenStack Image Service to use OpenStack Identity Service 70 Conguring OpenStack Compute to use OpenStack Identity Service 72 Using OpenStack