Keystone provides the identify service in openstack which is responsible for user management. It tracks the openstack users and their permissions. It provides a catalog of available services with their API endpoints. OpenStack Identity Service needs to install on controller node. Keystone will use the database to store the information. So we need to configure the […]
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Openstack – Setup the Controller Node – Part 2
Controller node is the heart of the OpenStack platform which manages the various services. This article helps you to configure the Mysql DB & Rabbit MQ messaging service on Openstack controller node. Each service must be protected with a password for security reason. Each service will invoke for the password whenever you are trying to […]
Openstack Manual Installation – Part 1
This series of the article is going to provide the step by step method to deploy each component of Openstack cloud Computing platform. As you all know that Openstack is an open source cloud computing platform which support all type of cloud environments. This project aims for simple implementation, massive scalability, and a rich set of features. Cloud […]
Openstack – Beginners Guide
Openstack is not just only about the internet buzz. It’s going to create new revolution on the IT infrastructure industry. How Openstack can do this since it’s just 5 years old ? Is it similar to VMware virtualization ? Oracle VM ? Redhat Virtualization ? Citrix Xen ? Not exactly. Openstack is an opensource project […]
Openstack – Configure Cinder Service (Testing Method)
Cinder is the default block storage service on Openstack. Cinder service manages the volumes , volume snapshots, and volume types. Prior to year 2012 , cinder was part of nova module in the name of nova-volume. To reduce the nova coding and improve the volume service, developers has separated the volume service from nova codes and […]
What’s New – VMware Integrated Openstack 2.0
The VMware’s global conference for virtualization and cloud computing “VMworld 2015” is completed in San Francisco today. In that conference , they have announced the most important release for “VMware integrated Openstack 2.0 (VIO 2.0)”. The first VMware integrated openstack (VIO) released in 2014. Since then VMware aggressively doing more enhancement on the Openstack part. VIO 2.0 […]
Private Cloud Debate – Openstack vs VMware
I am sure that many of the companies are still thinking that which is the best software for Private cloud solutions. The infrastructure market is changing rapidly in recent times. Once upon a time , mainframe was ruling in the market . Later on , Unix operating systems were kicked in to the market and operating systems […]
Download Pre-configured Cloud Images for Linux & Windows
Creating the cloud instance image is not a cake-walk. If you have followed the last article ,you would have felt the same. That could be the reason why the pre-configured cloud images are available in the internet. Openstack.org also states that “The simplest way to obtain a virtual machine image that works with OpenStack is to […]
How to create a custom image for Openstack ?
The virtual instance OS image can be created outside the openstack. By default openstack comes with small Linux foot print instance called cirros and we have tested it. But as a customer , I would like to put custom image in openstack for various requirement. In this article, we will create Ubuntu custom image using […]
How to access the Cloud instance using Key pair ?
If you are new to the cloud environment, You should know that how to use the key pairs to access the instances. The procedure remains same when you go for the public clouds like Amazon EC2 or Private clouds like Openstack. The ssh keys consists two parts. The first one is public key which is pushed […]