OpenStack Setup Tenant

Prerequisites

1. Have the account to the OpenStack env.

Steps

Login to the OpenStack GUI.

Open 192.168.1.254 in Chrome or other web browser.

[Do for the first time] Setup the Networks

1. Navigate Project -> Network -> Networks, click Create Network.
2. Input the network name and create a Subnet. Suggest using private subnets like: 172.16.*.* to 172.30.*.*.
3. Input the DNS servers.
4. Navigate Project -> Network -> Routers, click Create Router. This router makes sure your VMs can access to external networks.
5. Input the router name like router-net-ext. Select the net-ext as the external network.
6. Navigate the Interfaces tab of router-net-ext, click Add Interface. Select the network created in #1.
7. Navigate Project -> Network -> Security Groups, click Manage Rules of default group. To make it easy, I add several rules to allow most of ports.

Boot a VM

1. Navigate Project -> Compute -> Key Pairs, click Create Key Pair. Store the private key to local path like private.pem. You will need it to ssh to the created VM without password.
2. Copy the private key private.pem to 10.245.48.66.
3. Navigate Project -> Compute -> Instances, click Launch Instance. Select No to Create New Volume.

Access the VM

1. Navigate Project -> Compute -> Instances, click Associate Floating IP to the created VM. This makes you can access the VM easily from outside.
2. You can see the IP like 172.30.1.50 in the Floating IPs of the VM.
3. On 10.245.48.66, run:

   eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
   ssh-add ~/private.pem
   

4. From 10.245.48.66, ssh [email protected].