Introduction and quickstart
MicroStack speedily installs OpenStack on a single machine. Supported services are currently Glance, Horizon, Keystone, Neutron, and Nova.
Requirements:
You will need at least 2 CPUs, 8 GiB of memory, and 100 GiB of disk space.
Installation
Begin by installing MicroStack via a snap.
Note:
The edge channel is moving towards a strictly confined snap. At this time it must be installed in devmode.
Install using the edge channel:
sudo snap install microstack --devmode --edge
The standard openstack client is also installed, and is invoked like so:
microstack.openstack <command>
Note:
MicroStack is designed to run on a physical machine running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
Quickstart
The purpose of the Quickstart guide is to confirm that the cloud is in working order. The following can all be done within 10 to 15 minutes depending on your machine:
- configure OpenStack automatically
- launch an instance based on the CirrOS image (with
floating IP address) - SSH to the instance
Let’s begin.
Configure OpenStack in this way:
sudo microstack.init --auto
This configured and started services. It also created the database, networks, an image, several flavors, ICMP/SSH security groups, and an SSH keypair (called ‘microstack’). These can be viewed with the standard client commands. For example:
microstack.openstack network list
Output:
+--------------------------------------+----------+--------------------------------------+
| ID | Name | Subnets |
+--------------------------------------+----------+--------------------------------------+
| 92763cdb-8543-445a-973a-952a1483506d | external | 18cef02a-03ba-448f-9d11-59dfd28f12b0 |
| b7d73bd0-f12d-4446-99e9-7e6c18b657fe | test | 50540f94-ca00-40a1-8faa-4e0408369f36 |
+--------------------------------------+----------+--------------------------------------+
MicroStack comes with the convenient instance launcher microstack.launch that uses default values for network, image, flavor, and SSH key. It also sets up a floating IP address.
To launch an instance named ‘test’ that uses the CirrOS image:
microstack.launch cirros --name test
The instance’s public IP address will be shown in the resulting output:
Server test launched! (status is BUILD)
Access it with `ssh -i $HOME/.ssh/id_microstack` <username>@10.20.20.202
Access that instance using the default SSH key (the CirrOS image comes with a ‘cirros’ user account):
ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_microstack cirros@10.20.20.202
Pro tip:
The CirrOS image user account ‘cirros’ has a default password of ‘gocubsgo’. It can be useful if you have trouble logging in with a key.
The microstack.launch command also supports arguments --key,
--flavor, --image, and --net-id. You may need to create objects
using the standard client if non-default values are used. You can, of course,
replace the command entirely with microstack.openstack server create.
Horizon
The Horizon dashboard lives here:
http://10.20.20.1
and its default credentials are:
username: admin
password: keystone
Next steps
This Quickstart has shown you how simple it is to get started with MicroStack. You can now go on to perform native OpenStack operations such as importing boot images; creating keypairs, networks, and cloud flavors. See the OpenStack documentation.
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