Openstack Installation on AWS (Packstack)

This guide will walk you through the installation of OpenStack in CentOS 7 on AWS using packstack.

Step 1: Log in to your AWS account and create an EC2 instance with the following configuration.

1. AMI - CentOS 7 (x86_64)
2. Instance Type - t2.xlarge
3. Instance Configuration - Default
4. Storage - 55GB or more
5. Tags - [Name: My CentOS Server] (You can skip this if you want).
6. Security Group - All traffic
7. Keypair - Create a new keypair or Proceed with the existing one.

Step 2: Connect to your VM using WinSCP and copy the following 3 files to VM.

File#1- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yJic7aVBKEWuZSxDvslRZOiuu70-DaAd/view?usp=sharing

File#2- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iQKT5M4LduQxHjZPZlqydI2A7Z0bFicy/view?usp=sharing

File#3- https://drive.google.com/file/d/15cKJFDij4Ecp1J1q5UeVbEEEYz8yT82U/view?usp=sharing

Step 3: Connect to the instance via putty and execute the following commands as root.

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The following commands will extract the above three files into the software folder.

# cd /home/centos
# mkdir iso
# mkdir iso1
# mkdir iso2
# mount RHEL7OSP-13.0-20180628.2-x86_64.iso iso/
# mkdir software
# cp -rfv iso/* software/
# mount rhel-7.5-server-updates-20180628.iso iso1/
# cp -rfv iso1/* software/
# mount rhel-7-server-additional-20180628.iso iso2/
# cp -rfv iso2/* software/

Now write the following commands to disable the network manager and firewalld.

# systemctl disable firewalld
# systemctl stop firewalld
# systemctl disable networkmanager
# systemctl stop NetworkManager
# systemctl enable network
# systemctl start network

Write the below commands to configure the yum repo.

# cd /etc/yum.repos.d
# vi osp.repo

Content in osp.repo

[osp]
baseurl=file://home/centos/software
gpgcheck=0

Commands to install packstack.

# cd
# yum update -y
# yum install -y centos-release-openstack-train
# yum update -y
# yum install -y openstack-packstack
# packstack --allinone

One last step…

# source keystonerc_admin
# cd /etc/httpd/conf.d
# vim 15-horizon-vhost.conf

Add “ServerAlias your_aws_public_ip” in 15-horizon-vhost.conf just above other “ServerAlias”.

# systemctl restart httpd

Step 4: Go to the AUTH_URL given in the keystonerc_admin file and log in with the credentials given in that file.

All Done!