Getting Started¶

Simple setup!¶

Made to be as simple as possible, but not to simple.

Prerequisites¶

Linux¶

One of the tested Linux distributions (RHEL 6.2, Ubuntu 11.10, Fedora 16)

You can get Ubuntu 11.10 (64-bit is preferred) from http://releases.ubuntu.com/11.10/

You can get RHEL 6.2 (64-bit is preferred) from http://rhn.redhat.com/.

You can get Fedora 16 (64-bit is preferred) from https://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora, so don’t worry if you do not have a RHN subscription.

Networking¶

Important!¶

Since networking can affect how your cloud runs please check out this link:

http://docs.openstack.org/diablo/openstack-compute/admin/content/configuring-networking-on-the-compute-node.html

Check out the root article and the sub-chapters there to understand more of what these settings mean.

This is typically one of the hardest aspects of *OpenStack* to configure and get right!

ANVIL will configure the network in a identical manner to version 1.0. This means that the default network manager will be the FlatDHCPManager. The following settings are relevant in configuring your network.

flat_network_bridge = ${FLAT_NETWORK_BRIDGE:-br100}
flat_interface = ${FLAT_INTERFACE:-eth0}
public_interface = ${PUBLIC_INTERFACE:-eth0}

The above settings will affect exactly which network interface is used as the source interface which will be used as a network bridge.

fixed_range = ${NOVA_FIXED_RANGE:-10.0.0.0/24}
fixed_network_size = ${NOVA_FIXED_NETWORK_SIZE:-256}
floating_range = ${FLOATING_RANGE:-172.24.4.224/28}
test_floating_pool = ${TEST_FLOATING_POOL:-test}
test_floating_range = ${TEST_FLOATING_RANGE:-192.168.253.0/29}

The above settings will determine exactly how nova when running assigns IP addresses. By default a single network is created using fixed_range with a network size specified by fixed_network_size. Note the size here is 256 which is the number of addresses in the 10.0.0.0/24 subnet (32 - 24 bits is 8 bits or 256 addresses). The floating pool is similar to fixed addresses (TODO describe this more).

Installation¶

Pre-setup¶

Since RHEL/Fedora requires a tty to perform sudo commands we need to disable this so sudo can run without a tty. This seems needed since nova and other components attempt to do sudo commands. This isn’t possible in RHEL/Fedora unless you disable this (since those instances won’t have a tty ).

For RHEL and Fedora 16:

$ sudo visudo

Then comment out line:

Default requiretty

Also disable selinux:

$ sudo vi /etc/sysconfig/selinux

Change SELINUX=enforcing to SELINUX=disabled then it seems you need to reboot.

$ sudo reboot

For Ubuntu:

You are off the hook.

Users¶

We need to add a admin user so that horizon can run under apache.

For Ubuntu:

$ apt-get install sudo -y
$ sudo adduser horizon
$ sudo adduser horizon admin

For RHEL/Fedora 16:

You are off the hook as long as your user has sudo access.

Get git!¶

For Ubuntu:

$ sudo apt-get install git -y

For RHEL/Fedora 16:

$ sudo yum install git -y

Download¶

We’ll grab the latest version of ANVIL via git:

$ git clone git://github.com/yahoo/Openstack-Anvil.git anvil

Now setup the prerequisites needed to run:

$ cd anvil && sudo ./warmup.sh

Configuration¶

Apache configuration¶

We need to adjust the configuration of ANVIL to reflect the above user (iff you created a user).

Open conf/anvil.ini

Change section:

[horizon]

# What user will apache be serving from.
#
# Root will typically not work (for apache on most distros)
# sudo adduser <username> then sudo adduser <username> admin will be what you want to set this up (in ubuntu)
# I typically use user "horizon" for ubuntu and the runtime user (who will have sudo access) for RHEL.
#
# NOTE: If blank the currently executing user will be used.
apache_user = ${APACHE_USER:-}

To:

[horizon]

# What user will apache be serving from.
#
# Root will typically not work (for apache on most distros)
# sudo adduser <username> then sudo adduser <username> admin will be what you want to set this up (in ubuntu)
# I typically use user "horizon" for ubuntu and the runtime user (who will have sudo access) for RHEL.
#
# NOTE: If blank the currently executing user will be used.
apache_user = ${APACHE_USER:-horizon}

Network configuration¶

We need to adjust the configuration of ANVIL to reflect our above network configuration.

Please reference:

http://docs.openstack.org/diablo/openstack-compute/admin/content/configuring-networking-on-the-compute-node.html

If you need to adjust those variables the matching config variables in anvil.ini are:

# Network settings
# Very useful to read over:
# http://docs.openstack.org/cactus/openstack-compute/admin/content/configuring-networking-on-the-compute-node.html
fixed_range = ${NOVA_FIXED_RANGE:-10.0.0.0/24}
fixed_network_size = ${NOVA_FIXED_NETWORK_SIZE:-256}
network_manager = ${NET_MAN:-FlatDHCPManager}
public_interface = ${PUBLIC_INTERFACE:-eth0}

# DHCP Warning: If your flat interface device uses DHCP, there will be a hiccup while the network
# is moved from the flat interface to the flat network bridge. This will happen when you launch
# your first instance. Upon launch you will lose all connectivity to the node, and the vm launch will probably fail.
#
# If you are running on a single node and don't need to access the VMs from devices other than
# that node, you can set the flat interface to the same value as FLAT_NETWORK_BRIDGE. This will stop the network hiccup from occurring.
flat_interface = ${FLAT_INTERFACE:-eth0}
vlan_interface = ${VLAN_INTERFACE:-$(nova:public_interface)}
flat_network_bridge = ${FLAT_NETWORK_BRIDGE:-br100}

# Test floating pool and range are used for testing.
# They are defined here until the admin APIs can replace nova-manage
floating_range = ${FLOATING_RANGE:-172.24.4.224/28}
test_floating_pool = ${TEST_FLOATING_POOL:-test}
test_floating_range = ${TEST_FLOATING_RANGE:-192.168.253.0/29}

Installing¶

Now install OpenStacks components by running the following:

sudo ./smithy -a install -d ~/openstack

You should see a set of distribution packages and/or pips being installed, python setups occurring and configuration files being written as ANVIL figures out how to install your desired components (if you desire more informational output add a -v or a -vv to that command).

Starting¶

Now that you have installed OpenStack you can now start your OpenStack components by running the following.

sudo ./smithy -a start -d ~/openstack

If you desire more informational output add a -v or a -vv to that command.

Check horizon¶

Once that occurs you should be able to go to your hosts ip with a web browser and view horizon which can be logged in with the user admin and the password you entered when prompted for Enter a password to use for horizon and keystone. If you let the system auto-generate one for you you will need to check the final output of the above install and pick up the password that was generated which should be displayed at key passwords/horizon_keystone_admin. You can also later find this authentication information in the generated core.rc file.

If you see a login page and can access horizon then:

Congratulations. You did it!

Command line tools¶

In your ANVIL directory:

source core.rc

This should set up the environment variables you need to run OpenStack CLI tools:

nova <command> [options] [args]
nova-manage <command> [options] [args]
keystone <command> [options] [args]
glance <command> [options] [args]
....

If you desire to use eucalyptus tools (ie euca2ools) which use the EC2 apis run the following to get your EC2 certs:

euca.sh $OS_USERNAME $OS_TENANT_NAME

It broke?¶

Otherwise you may have to look at the output of what was started. To accomplish this you may have to log at the stderr and stdout that is being generated from the running OpenStack process (by default they are forked as daemons). For this information check the output of the start command for a line like Check * for traces of what happened. This is usually a good starting point, to check out those files contents and then look up the files that contain the applications PID and stderr and stdout.

If the install section had warning messages or exceptions were thrown there, that may also be the problem. Sometimes running the uninstall section below will clean this up, your mileage may vary though.

Another tip is to edit run with more verbose logging by running with the following -v option or the -vv option. This may give you more insights by showing you what was executed/installed/configured (uninstall & start by installing again to get the additional logging output).

Stopping¶

Once you have started OpenStack services you can stop them by running the following:

sudo ./smithy -a stop -d ~/openstack

You should see a set of stop actions happening and stderr and stdout and pid files being removed (if you desire more informational output add a -v or a -vv to that command). This ensures the above a daemon that was started is now killed. A good way to check if it killed everything correctly is to run the following.

sudo ps -elf | grep python
sudo ps -elf | grep apache

There should be no entries like nova, glance, apache, httpd. If there are then the stop may have not occurred correctly. If this is the case run again with a -v or a -vv or check the stderr, stdout, pid files for any useful information on what is happening.

Uninstalling¶

Once you have stopped (if you have started it) OpenStack services you can uninstall them by running the following:

sudo ./smithy -a uninstall -d ~/openstack

You should see a set of packages, configuration and directories, being removed (if you desire more informational output add a -v or a -vv to that command). On completion the directory specified at ~/openstack be empty.

Issues¶

Please report issues/bugs to https://launchpad.net/anvil. Much appreciated!