Microstack Openstack Image Service How to add Image to Glance For the impatient: Microstack is admittedly not my favorite way to deploy openstack, probably because it takes some getting used to. Running openstack services in isolated containers makes things more secure, easier to deploy, homogeneous.. there are so many obvious reasons Canonical did it this way. But it is… Read More Like this:Like Loading...
How to fix RDO Packstack Openstack Installation Error: “rabbitmq-server start failed with exitcode 1” This took more time then I would like to admit to find the solution, because the error is simply do to the machines hostname not being set correctly. The machine’s hostname should match in /etc/hosts with hostname in /etc/hostname file. That simple!… Read More Like this:Like Loading...
How to Upload Turnkey Linux Appliances to Openstack Juno A video of this process is also below. Scroll Down to find it. Turnkey Linux is a very convenient way to obtain a very large assortment of pre-made virtual appliances for many different virtualization platforms, including Openstack. However deploying the appliances to Openstack is a bit more involved then other platforms. Here I will try to… Read More Like this:Like Loading...
Resize Centos 7 Partition for RDO Packstack Openstack installer Juno Quick Video to setup Centos 7 during a fresh installation for RDO Packstack Juno so that you have more storage space. By default RDO Packstack uses the root partition for Openstack leaving the bulk of your hard drive space unused. In this short video we will re arrange partition space to use this to our… Read More Like this:Like Loading...
Real World Application of GRE and VXLAN Encapsulation between Mixed Hypervisors on Disjoint Networks PART-1. Happy Thanksgiving! I thought about putting this all into one post. I quickly realized it wouldn’t be possible as there is just to much! Contrary to what this first post’s format this will be a technical how to. This is just the introduction to what we are going to be doing. The following parts will… Read More Like this:Like Loading...
How to create a virtual network that spans every project in your Openstack based cloud. Openstack Neutron has some mind blowing virtual networking. Many thing are not immediately apparent on how to configure though. This was one of them. This video show you how to create a Neutron virtual network that is accessible to all Openstack projects within the cloud. This is useful if you want to make a certain… Read More Like this:Like Loading...