We’re opening a series of video tutorials that show you how to install OpenStack.

In this first video we’re installing OpenStack Mitaka on CentOS 7 using RDO. It’s a very easy way to install OS since the installer is doing everything for you. Here’s the video. More info below.

Another benefit of using RDO is the ease of adding compute nodes: just editing the answer file and running packstack will do the job.

Some of the weaknesses of using RDO are:

RDO doesn’t support an easy upgrade path from one OpenStack major version to the next

it’s harder to maintain a cloud with lots of compute nodes

In the upcoming tutorials we’ll analyze some other ways to install OpenStack, like OpenStack-Ansible or manual installation.

How do you install, upgrade and maintain your OpenStack cloud?

Here are the commands that we’ve run in the video:

yum install -y https://www.rdoproject.org/repos/rdo-release.rpm yum install -y openstack-packstack ip a packstack \ --install-host=192.168.1.240 \ --mariadb-install=y \ --os-glance-install=y \ --os-cinder-install=y \ --os-nova-install=y \ --os-neutron-install=y \ --os-ceilometer-install=y \ --os-gnocchi-install=y \ --os-client-install=y \ --os-swift-install=n \ --os-aodh-install=n \ --nagios-install=n \ --os-neutron-vpnaas-install=n \ --os-neutron-lbaas-install=n \ --neutron-fwaas=n \ --os-horizon-install=n . keystonerc_admin nova list glance image-list nova flavor-list nova boot --image cirros --flavor m1.tiny firstvm nova list

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