Setup All-in-One OpenStack environment by using devstack

As OpenStack is a complicated software suit, it is not very easy to deploy OpenStack for beginners. Devstack is a very handy tool to deploy all-in-one openstack environment

1.       the box is installed with the ubuntu 14.4, the user is called stack

2.       update the system and packages

command: #sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

then reboot the machine

3.       make the /opt/stack world wide readable

commands:

#sudo chown -R stack:strack /opt/stack

#sudo chmod 777 /opt/stack

4.       install git

#sudo apt-getinstall git

5.       download openstack and checkout the Icehouse version

#sudo git clone https://github.com/openstack-dev/devstack.git

#sudo git checkout -b icehouseorigin/stable/icehouse

6.       upload the localrc configuration template

it should be in ~/devstack/

7.       deploy openstack

./stack.sh

After it is running for about 1 hour, you will have a full-in-one OpenStack environment