Openstack Installation on AWS (MicroStack)

This guide will walk you through the installation of OpenStack in Ubuntu 20.04 on AWS using MicroStack.

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

AMI — Ubuntu 20.04

Instance Type — t2.xlarge

Instance Configuration — Default

Storage — 100GB or more

Tags — [Name: My Ubuntu Server] (You can skip this if you want).

Security Group — SSH, HTTP, HTTPS

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Keypair — Create a new keypair or Proceed with the existing one.

Step 2: Connect to your instance via putty.

Step 3: Installation.

The installation step consists solely of installing the MicroStack snap.

At this time use the beta channel.

$ sudo snap install microstack --beta

Step 4: Initialization:

The initialization step automatically deploys, configures, and starts OpenStack services. In particular, it will create the database, networks, an image, several flavors, and ICMP/SSH security groups. This can all be done within 10 to 20 minutes depending on your machine:

$ sudo microstack init --auto --control

All Done!