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Openstack Juno – Management interfaces

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This blog is part of my series on Openstack Juno. In this blog, I will cover different management interfaces to Openstack. Following are the different management interfaces available.

  • Horizon web interface
  • CLI interface to each service. CLI interface is provided by Python script. Internally, the script calls the REST interface.
  • REST interface. This is accessible either through Curl or a POSTMAN kind of client.
  • Programmatic interface using Python SDK.

Horizon interface:

On the host where stacking is done, webserver runs on port 80 and all Openstack services can be configured using this interface. Login to Horizon can be done with either tenant userid or admin userid. Based on the userid, privileges are granted.

CLI interface:

CLI interface is provided for each service. Nova services are accessible through “nova” client, Swift services are accessible with “swift” client and so on. Following example lists running VMs. Continue reading Openstack Juno – Management interfaces →

Openstack Juno – Group based policy

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This blog is part of my series on Openstack Juno. In this blog, I will cover Group based policy in Openstack Juno. For more information on Group based policy(GBP), please refer to my earlier blogs on GBP basics and ODL integration.

Group based policy(GBP) support in Juno:

Preliminary support for GBP is available in Juno, more functionality will come in Kilo release. We need to pull a GBP label based devstack to get the GBP functionality. I followed the instructions in Openstack GBP wiki to try out GBP functionality with devstack. The exercise walks through a dummy application stack with 2 client groups and 1 web server group and having some policies between the 3 group application to control the interactions.

Following are some advantages that I realized as part of trying the exercise:

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Openstack Juno – Multihost Networking

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This blog is part of my series on Openstack Juno.

In this blog, I will cover adding a compute host to the Openstack Devstack cluster and connect the 2 hosts using either vxlan or gre encapsulation.
Lets first do the stacking on the controller host using the steps mentioned in my previous blog.
Lets look at the hypervisor list. As expected, we see only 1 host.

$ nova hypervisor-list
+----+-------------------------+
| ID | Hypervisor hostname     |
+----+-------------------------+
| 1  | sreeubuntu14-VirtualBox |
+----+-------------------------+

Lets look at the networks created by default:

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Openstack Juno services – Swift, Glance, Heat, Ceilometer

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This blog is part of my series on Openstack Juno. In this blog, I will cover the usage of Openstack services Swift, Glance, Heat, Ceilometer.

Swift:

Swift is used for Object based storage. Its similar to AWS S3 service.
First, create a container to store objects:

$ swift post mycont

Upload a file to the container

$ swift upload mycont local.conf

List container and objects.

$ swift list
mycont
$ swift list mycont
local.conf

List status of created container.

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Openstack Juno services – Nova, Cinder

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This blog is part of my series on Openstack Juno. In this blog, I will cover the usage of Openstack services Nova, Cinder.

I found this blog on Openstack services good in giving a highlevel overview of services and comparing individual Openstack services with Amazon AWS services.

Nova basics:

Nova is the Openstack compute service.
Following command shows the flavors available by default. Flavors are different configurations(CPU, memory, hard disk) for the VMs that can be created from Nova.

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Openstack Juno Install using Devstack

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Earlier, I had written 2 blogs on Openstack devstack Icehouse installation and networking. The feedback was positive on these blogs. This prompted me to do a series on different aspects of Openstack Juno. Openstack Juno is the 10th and latest release of Openstack that got released in October 2014. In the next series of blogs, I will cover the following aspects of Openstack Juno.

  • Openstack Juno devstack installation and debugging.
  • Accessing Openstack services through CLI, API and SDK.
  • Overview of different Openstack services along with a demo of their usage.
  • Multi-node devstack installation.

In this blog, I will cover the steps to install Openstack Juno in Devstack.

My environment:

  • Windows 7 with Virtualbox 4.3.20
  • 24 GB RAM (Devstack install per VM requires a minimum of 4GB)

Installation steps:

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