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Muhammad Nabeel
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Install OpenStack on CentOS 7

OpenStack is a free and open source set of software tools used for cloud computing. It is suitable for both public and private clouds. Openstack used to manage and control computer storage, network and other manage resources through a dashboard. It is used by many big companies to manage their cloud server. In this article you will learn that how to install all-in-one setup of OpenStack Queens.

1- Prerequisites

CentOS 7 fresh minimual installation
Set hostname on your machine
Minimum one network interface configure with a static IP address. My machine has IP address 192.168.10.22

Before installing and use the Openstack, it is recommended to disable firewalld, NetworkManager and SELinux on your machine.

Stop/disable Firewalld and NetworkManager

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Use following commands

systemctl stop firewalld
systemctl disable firewalld
systemctl stop NetworkManager
systemctl disable NetworkManager

Now restart Network service to apply changes

systemctl restart network

Disable SELinux

Open file /etc/selinux/config using below command and modify line from SELINUX=enforcing to SELINUX=disabled

vi /etc/selinux/config

save changes and exit

Now reboot your machine

reboot

2- Install OpenStack

First of all run following command to install openstack queens repository

yum install centos-release-openstack-queens -y

Install Packstack

Packstack is an setup utility of OpenStack. use below command to install it.

yum install openstack-packstack -y

Install and Run OpenStack using Packstack

packstack --allinone

Note: above command will take some time to build openstack.

3- Access OpenStack

Once done, Open your web browser and use below link to access OpenStack

http://SERVER-IP/dashboard

Note: default user is “admin” and its password is placed in /root/keystonerc_admin file.

Now enter your login credentials to access Openstack dashboard.

 

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