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Running OpenStack in a container can be a useful workflow for developers.
The primary benefits are faster performance and lower memory overhead
while still providing a suitable level of isolation.

The guide walks the user through procedure for configuring an LXC container
and deploying OpenStack in it using devstack. It also discusses the limitations
of this setup - particularly related to cinder.

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DevStack - an OpenStack Community Production

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Quick Start

  1. Select a Linux Distribution

    Only Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty), Fedora 22 (or Fedora 23) and CentOS/RHEL 7 are documented here. OpenStack also runs and is packaged on other flavors of Linux such as OpenSUSE and Debian.

  2. Install Selected OS

    In order to correctly install all the dependencies, we assume a specific minimal version of the supported distributions to make it as easy as possible. We recommend using a minimal install of Ubuntu or Fedora server in a VM if this is your first time.

  3. Download DevStack

    git clone https://git.openstack.org/openstack-dev/devstack

    The devstack repo contains a script that installs OpenStack and templates for configuration files

  4. Configure

    We recommend at least a minimal-configuration be set up.

  5. Add Stack User

    Devstack should be run as a non-root user with sudo enabled (standard logins to cloud images such as "ubuntu" or "cloud-user" are usually fine).

    You can quickly create a separate stack user to run DevStack with

    devstack/tools/create-stack-user.sh; su stack

  6. Start the install

    cd devstack; ./stack.sh

    It takes a few minutes, we recommend reading the script while it is building.

Guides

Walk through various setups used by stackers

guides/single-vm guides/single-machine guides/lxc guides/multinode-lab guides/neutron guides/devstack-with-nested-kvm guides/nova guides/devstack-with-lbaas-v2

All-In-One Single VM

Run OpenStack in a VM <guides/single-vm>. The VMs launched in your cloud will be slow as they are running in QEMU (emulation), but it is useful if you don't have spare hardware laying around. [Read] <guides/single-vm>

All-In-One Single Machine

Run OpenStack on dedicated hardware <guides/single-machine> This can include a server-class machine or a laptop at home. [Read] <guides/single-machine>

All-In-One LXC Container

Run OpenStack in a LXC container <guides/lxc>. Beneficial for intermediate and advanced users. The VMs launched in this cloud will be fully accelerated but not all OpenStack features are supported. [Read] <guides/lxc>

Multi-Node Lab

Setup a multi-node cluster <guides/multinode-lab> with dedicated VLANs for VMs & Management. [Read] <guides/multinode-lab>

DevStack with Neutron Networking

Building a DevStack cluster with Neutron Networking <guides/neutron>. This guide is meant for building lab environments with a dedicated control node and multiple compute nodes.

DevStack with KVM-based Nested Virtualization

Procedure to setup DevStack with KVM-based Nested Virtualization <guides/devstack-with-nested-kvm>. With this setup, Nova instances will be more performant than with plain QEMU emulation.

Nova and devstack

Guide to working with nova features Nova and devstack <guides/nova>.

DevStack Documentation

Overview

An overview of DevStack goals and priorities <overview>

Configuration

Configuring and customizing the stack <configuration>

Plugins

Extending DevStack with new features <plugins>

Recent Changes

An incomplete summary of recent changes <changes>

FAQ

The DevStack FAQ <faq>

Contributing

Pitching in to make DevStack a better place <hacking>

Code

A look at the bits that make it all go

Scripts

Configuration

local.conf stackrc openrc exerciserc eucarc

Tools

Samples

Exercises