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Install OpenStack on One Virtual Machine, the Easy Way, On Ubuntu 16.04 LTS!

Many of you have emailed me or posted to voice your gripes about the painful process of installing an OpenStack environment to play around with. I feel your pain! My recent article on deploying OpenStack using conjure-up worked great until a developer committed some defective code.  Some of you even reverted to my old guide on deploying OpenStack on Ubuntu 14.04 from last year.  So, I set out to give you a fool proof, 100% guaranteed deployment method that’s EASY, STABLE, and works on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial.  Here you go!

Requirements

 

For this guide, you will need a server at least as good as these specs.

  • Virtual Machine on a real hypervisor (ESXi, KVM, Xen, etc) or a bare metal server with virtualization support.
  • 14GB of RAM is the recommended minimum.
  • 100GB of hard disk space, at least.
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS server, having already ran sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
  • About an hour and a cup of coffee.

 

Installing OpenStack

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Install OpenStack on a Single Ubuntu 16.04.1 Xenial Xerus Server Using Conjure-up

Introduction

 

It’s been some time since I wrote Installing Ubuntu OpenStack on a Single Machine, Instead of 7.  Since then, there have been many updates to both OpenStack, and Ubuntu.

This tutorial will guide you through installing OpenStack on a single Ubuntu 16.04 Server.  I will be installing Ubuntu and OpenStack within a virtual machine hosted on a VMware ESXi Hypervisor, but any fresh installation of Ubuntu 16.04 should work fine, as long as it meets the minimum requirements below.  I will be using conjure-up to install the environment due to the fact that Ubuntu’s Openstack-install package doesn’t working on Ubuntu 16.04.1 at this time.

 

Note:  I have written an updated guide on Installing OpenStack on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS using devstack.  I suggest following that guide unless you have a specific reason for using the conjure-up method.  From my experience, the devstack method requires less resources, runs faster, and performs much better once deployed.

 

Minimum Requirements

 

To install the entire environment on a single physical server or virtual machine, you will need at least:

 

  • 8 CPU’s (vCPUs will work just fine)
  • 12GB of RAM (minimum needed to successfully start everything, more is better)
  • 100GB Disk Space (SSD Prefered, but rotating disk will work)
  • Ubuntu 16.04.1 Xenial Xerus x64 Server(only OpenSSH Server installed)

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