Cinder AKA OpenStack block storage service ads the persistent storage to an instance, it also provides an infrastructure for managing volumes and interacts with compute service to provide volume for instance. The amount of storage is provisioned and consumed is determined the block storage drivers, there are a variety of drivers that are available: NAS/SAN, […]

In the last tutorial, we have had created an instance using CLI; same can be done through a web interface called Horizon. It enables us to manage various OpenStack resources and services. This guide helps you to configure horizon in Ubuntu 14.04. Horizon uses OpenStack API’s to interact with the cloud controller, you can also […]

This guide shows you how to launch a Fedora 22 instance image that we added in OpenStack Kilo on Ubuntu 14.04.2 – Glance. Here we will be using command line interface on the controller node to create an instance, this tutorial launches an instance using OpenStack Networking (neutron). Load the demo credentials on the controller […]

This is the fourth part of configuring neutron (Networking) on Ubuntu 14.04, you can go through previous article on Configure Neutron #1 , Configure Neutron #2, and Configure Neutron #3 in which we have installed and configured Networking components on Controller, Network, and Compute node. Here, we will be creating initial network, this must be […]

This is the third part of configuring neutron (Networking) on Ubuntu 14.04, you can go through previous article on Configure Neutron #1 and Configure Neutron #2 in which we have installed and configured Networking components on Controller node and Network Node. Here, we will be configuring compute node to use neutron. Prerequisites: Configure kernel parameters on […]