Openstack-Ansible is way to deploy Openstack cloud using Ansible.
Once Openstack cloud is deployed, user/admin needs to perform some steps to conclude installation is successful and cloud is accessible. Let us walkthrough some of steps: Verify the API Verify the Web GUI (Horizon dashboard)
During the installation process, three primary playbooks are executed: By executing these three playbooks, the infrastructure and services required for an OpenStack environment are established. The details steps as below: Check the integrity of the configuration files. Ensure that all the files edited in the /etc/openstack_deploy directory are Ansible yaml compliant. And then run the playbooks …
To prepare Ansible for playbook execution, certain files containing essential and optional configuration directives need to be adjusted to define the target environment. The configuration tasks involve: 1. Defining bridge interfaces and networks for the target host networking.2. Specifying a list of target hosts where the software installation will take place.3. Establishing virtual and physical …
One or more target hosts needs to be prepared so that Openstack cloud will be deployed on them. It typically involves installing and configuring operating systems (e.g. Ubuntu/Debian/CentOs/Rocky Linux etc.) and then configure SSH keys. Here, we have to copy the contents of the public key file of the deployment host to the /root/.ssh/authorized_keys file …
