Install OpenStack yourself
Try OpenStack on your workstation, set up a micro cloud or deploy a production-grade OpenStack cluster across hundreds of physical machines. You will use MicroStack or OpenStack Charms depending on the requirements.
If you run into any issues, or if you want OpenStack consulting, support or fully managed service, speak to an expert.
Single-node, multi-node or large-scale cluster?
Choose the OpenStack installation option that suits you best:
- One physical machine needed
- Uses MicroStack – OpenStack in a snap
- Core services included
- All services on a single node
- Opinionated OpenStack
- Straightforward installation
- OpenStack "on-rails"
Single-node OpenStack deployment
These instructions use MicroStack ‐ OpenStack in a snap, MicroStack is a pure upstream OpenStack distribution designed for small scale and edge deployments, that can be installed and maintained with a minimal effort.
Installation
The installation step consists solely of installing the MicroStack snap.
Requirements:
You will need a multi-core processor and at least 8 GiB of memory and 100 GiB of disk space. MicroStack has been tested on x86-based physical and virtual (KVM) machines running either Ubuntu 18.04 LTS or Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
At this time use the beta channel:
sudo snap install microstack --beta
Information on the installed snap can be viewed like this:
snap list microstack
Name Version Rev Tracking Publisher Notes
microstack ussuri 245 latest/beta canonical✓ -
Here we see that OpenStack Ussuri has been deployed!
Initialisation
The initialisation step automatically deploys, configures, and starts OpenStack services. In particular, it will create the database, networks, an image, several flavors, and ICMP/SSH security groups. This can all be done within 10 to 20 minutes depending on your machine:
sudo microstack init --auto --control
Verification
The purpose of the verification step is to confirm that the cloud is in working order and to discover some of the defaults used by MicroStack. Verification will consist of the following actions:
- perform various OpenStack queries
- create an instance
- connect to the instance over SSH
- access the cloud dashboard
Query OpenStack
The standard openstack client comes pre-installed and is invoked like so:
microstack.openstack <command>
To list the default image:
microstack.openstack image list
+--------------------------------------+--------+--------+
| ID | Name | Status |
+--------------------------------------+--------+--------+
| 7fefc80f-d745-4764-9389-00cc4a12585d | cirros | active |
+--------------------------------------+--------+--------+
To get the default list of flavors:
microstack.openstack flavor list
+----+-----------+-------+------+-----------+-------+-----------+
| ID | Name | RAM | Disk | Ephemeral | VCPUs | Is Public |
+----+-----------+-------+------+-----------+-------+-----------+
| 1 | m1.tiny | 512 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
| 2 | m1.small | 2048 | 20 | 0 | 1 | True |
| 3 | m1.medium | 4096 | 20 | 0 | 2 | True |
| 4 | m1.large | 8192 | 20 | 0 | 4 | True |
| 5 | m1.xlarge | 16384 | 20 | 0 | 8 | True |
+----+-----------+-------+------+-----------+-------+-----------+
Create an instance
MicroStack comes with a convenient instance creation command called microstack launch. It uses the following defaults for its instances:
- keypair ‘microstack’
- flavor ‘m1.tiny’
- floating IP address on subnet ‘10.20.20.0/24’
To create an instance named ‘test’ based on the ‘cirros’ image:
microstack launch cirros -n test
The microstack launch command also supports arguments --key, --flavor, --image, and --net-id, in which case you will need to create objects using the standard client if non-default values are desired.
Note:
The launch command can be replaced with the traditional microstack.openstack server create command.
Connect to the instance
Output from the microstack launch command includes all the information needed to connect to the instance over SSH:
Creating local "microstack" ssh key at /home/ubuntu/snap/microstack/common/.ssh/id_microstack
Launching server ...
Allocating floating ip ...
Server test launched! (status is BUILD)
Access it with `ssh -i /home/ubuntu/snap/microstack/common/.ssh/id_microstack cirros@10.20.20.199`
Note:
The launch command, upon its initial invocation, will set up a default OpenStack keypair.
Access the instance using the private SSH key associated with the default keypair:
ssh -i /home/ubuntu/snap/microstack/common/.ssh/id_microstack cirros@10.20.20.199
Note:
If you receive the error message sign_and_send_pubkey: no mutual signature supported then you will need to use the PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes option to allow for older key types. The complete command will look like this: ssh -o "PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes +ssh-rsa" -i /home/ubuntu/snap/microstack/common/.ssh/id_microstack cirros@10.20.20.199
Access the cloud dashboard
You can log in to the web UI by pointing your browser to the following URL:
https://10.20.20.1
The username is ‘admin’ and the password is obtained in this way:
sudo snap get microstack config.credentials.keystone-password
Sample password:
OAEHxLgCBz7Wz4usvolAAt61TrDUz6zz
Upon logging in you should see the created instance:
To learn more about MicroStack, visit https://microstack.run.
