Milestone 8 Openstack - ItsMmmike/SYS-350 GitHub Wiki
Overview
In this milestone, we wipe our vCenter and ESXi environment and install OpenStack (MicroStack) onto our Host Servers. OpenStack is an open source Cloud virtualization environment which we will be exploring in the next few milestone activities. However in this case, we will be using MicroStack which is a more minimal installation compared to the full OpenStack.
Guide Pages:
Reflection:
- Overall I found this milestone to be an interesting learning experience as this is my first time working in an OpenStack/MicroStack environment.
- I thought it was cool how you had to remote into each instance via SSH as this felt similar to how Amazon EC2 instances are managed.
- One thing that I had a bit of trouble working with was the first instance deployment as it took some time to boot up. I wasn't used to working with VMs in the MicroStack Environment, however this was resolved after waiting for the instance to initialize a bit more.
Deliverables
Deliverable 1 - Screenshot showing the Chrome Remote Desktop Banner and the current running version of my Super13 Ubuntu Desktop Server.
Deliverable 2 - Screenshot of my working OpenStack Dashboard displaying my running instance as well as identifying information for my environment setup.