A 12 minute screencast showing an installation of OpenStack ‘Essex’ on Ubuntu 12.04 running on VirtualBox
OpenStack Essex Installation Screencast
Note that this screencast has no sound.
- Configure VirtualBox with the following
Network Interfaces:
eth0 (nat)
eth1 host-only: 172.16.0.0/16
eth2 host-only: 10.0.0.0/8
Memory: 1536Mb
Hard Disk: 20Gb
System Processor (optional but recommended): Increase CPU from 1 - Install Ubuntu 12.04, specifying eth0 as your default interface
- Configure networking:
eth1 is your public network set to be 172.16.0.0/16
eth2 is your private VLAN - Run an update on the machine, and reboot
- Install Git which allows you to pull down a script to perform the installation of OpenStack
- Grab the script using the following:
git clone https://github.com/uksysadmin/OpenStackInstaller.git - Ensure you’re running the ‘essex’ version of the script by running: git checkout essex
- Run the script with the following:
./OSinstall.sh -F 172.16.1.0/24 -f 10.1.0.0/16 -s 512 -t demo -v qemu - Upload an image using the test supplied script:
./upload_ubuntu.sh -a admin -p openstack -t demo -C 172.16.0.1 - Log into the Dashboard: http://172.16.0.1/ with ‘demo/openstack’
- Create your access keys
- Edit the default security group (add in SSH access and ability to ping)
- Launch your instance
- Log into your new instance!
