Manually setup all-in-one OpenStack Icehouse 1 - preparation

Manually setup all-in-one OpenStack Icehouse 1 - preparation

DevStack is a cool tool to setup all-in-one OpenStack environment but it hides most of the details. To better understand how the each component of OpenStack is setup. here I tried to setup OpenStack Icehouse on the Ubuntu 14.4 manully following this blog

http://fosskb.wordpress.com/2014/04/12/openstack-icehouse-on-ubuntu-12-04-lts-single-machine-setup/. My IP is 192.168.139.111

Setup/update the environment for OpenStack Icehouse

Configure the repositories and update the packages.

Commands:

apt-get install -y python-software-properties        -- this is to setup python environment

add-apt-repository cloud-archive:icehouse           -- this is to setup the icehouse repository
apt-get install -y ntp vlan bridge-utils                    -- this is to setup ntp vlan and other network utils

apt-get update && apt-get -y upgrade                 -- this is to update the packages and kernel

reboot                                                                   -- reboot the server

Setup RabbitMQ server, it seems no configuration for RabbitMQ

Commands:

apt-get install -y rabbitmq-server                         -- install rabbitmq server

Setup MySQL server, configure the my.cnf and restart MySQL

Commands:

apt-get install -y mysql-server python-mysqldb

edit the /etc/mysql/my.cnf file

add or modify the below configuration

[mysqld]

bind-address = 0.0.0.0                                       -- listen on all IPs

collation-server = utf8_general_ci                    -- setup collation

init-connect = 'SET NAMES utf8'                     -- characterset setting

character-set-server = utf8                                -- characterset setting

restart the MySQL

service mysql restart                                          -- restart MySQL

enable the kernel parameters in /etc/sysctl.conf

net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter=0
net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter=0