OpenStack – Setup on Digital Ocean

This article discusses our quick OpenStack setup in support of our first CompatibleOne cloud broker setup. Read on to see what we did to run a simple VM within OpenStack.

Overview

CompatibleOne has some online documentation that discusses running a first VM within OpenStack. So, we want to setup OpenStack using our Digital Ocean account.

We selected the OpenStack 3-Node Architecture consisting of a Controller, Network, and Compute node.

  1. All Nodes. CentOS 6.5 x64.
  2. Controller Node. 2GB Ram, 40GB SSD Disk, Private Networking.
  3. Network Node. 512MB Ram, 20GB SSD Disk, Private Networking.
  4. Compute Node. 2GB Ram, 40GB SSD Disk, Private Networking.

Basic Setup

Prior to doing anything else, perform these steps:

  1. Create local SSH group and a local user. We created group ssh-users and user l.abruce. We made l.abruce a member of users, wheel, ssh-users groups.
  2. Setup /etc/sudoers. We used the easiest option of %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL.
  3. Disable root login. We modified /etc/ssh/sshd_config with the following:
    # 9-MAY-14, ABr
    AllowGroups ssh-users
    PermitRootLogin no

    Be sure to verify that you can login after you use service sshd restart ๐Ÿ™‚

Setup Networking

OpenStack configuration guide assumes eth1 is Management, eth2 is Instance Tunnels, and eth3 is external. Digital Ocean only gives you two NICs: eth1 is your external interface and eth2 is your private interface. So we will lose the IP address for eth2 and use sub-interfaces for each network. No need for a VLAN!

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2 Comments on “OpenStack – Setup on Digital Ocean

    • Yes, Al – I have been remiss on this one! It came down to cost; DO is cheap compared to EC2 and Azure (1/3 cost) *but* you still get charged whether you have machines on or off. When I realized that, I already had a bigger balance than I planned for. So the machines had to go off ๐Ÿ™‚

      I have some beater servers that I will eventually get provisioned and see if I can run KVM on them. That will keep the cost down. Anyways, in the meantime I have a bunch more work to do on setting up puppet and getting it automated. Plus some 60-day trials to burn on Rackspace / etc. So maybe I can get the OS work fired back up again ๐Ÿ™‚

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