Category: Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing

How to Create and Attach Cinder Volume to Instance in OpenStack

Aug 3, 2015 by Grzegorz Juszczak 2 Comments , , ,

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Cinder Volume is a block storage based on Linux LVM, which can be attached to instance and mounted as a regular file system.
In this tutorial we will show you how to create Cinder Volume in OpenStack and attach it to existing instance as additional partition.

Note: you need to have working OpenStack installation with existing project tenant and running instance in order to proceed with Cinder Volume creation.

Find out how to: Create project tenant in OpenStack and launch instances
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Create tenant in OpenStack and launch instances

May 14, 2015 by Grzegorz Juszczak 15 Comments ,

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In this tutorial we will show you, how to create project tenant in OpenStack Juno and launch instances accessible from external public network.

Note: this tutorial is a continuation of OpenStack Installation on CentOS7 / RHEL7 and we assume that you already have working installation of OpenStack.

Environment used:
cloud version: OpenStack Juno on CentOS7 (2 nodes: controller, compute)
public network (Floating IP network): 192.168.2.0/24
private network (inside Project Tenant): 192.168.20.0/24
public controller IP: 192.168.2.4 (eth0)
public compute IP: 192.168.2.5 (eth0)
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Install OpenStack Juno on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7

Apr 20, 2015 by Grzegorz Juszczak 21 Comments , , , , , , , , ,

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OpenStack is a free and open source cloud computing platform developed as a joint project of Rackspace Hosting and NASA. Users primarily deploy it as an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solution. OpenStack cloud consists of many well know technologies like: Linux KVM, LVM, iSCSI, MariaDB (MySQL), RabbitMQ or Python Django.

OpenStack architecture overview:

  1. Horizon: web browser user interface (dashboard) based on Python Django for creating and managing instances (virtual machines)
  2. Keystone: authentication and authorization framework
  3. Neutron: network connectivity as a service
  4. Cinder: persistent block storage for instances based on LVM
  5. Nova: instances management system based on Linux KVM
  6. Glance: registry for instance images
  7. Swift: file storage for cloud
  8. Ceilometer: metering engine for collecting billable data and analysis.
  9. Heat: orchestration service for template-based instance deployment

In this tutorial we will install OpenStack Juno release from RDO repository on two nodes (controller node & compute node) based on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7.

Environment used:
public network (Floating IP network): 192.168.2.0/24
internal network: no IP space, physical connection only (eth1)
public controller IP: 192.168.2.4 (eth0)
public compute IP: 192.168.2.5 (eth0)
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