Everett Toews

Here’s how to deploy DevStack for OpenStack Havana including Neutron (Network) and Swift (Object Storage) on the Rackspace Cloud. You can use DevStack for testing/development of OpenStack or just learning a bit more about OpenStack and how all of the pieces fit together.

If you don’t have a Rackspace Cloud account, I recommend using the Developer Discount to try this out.

1. Go to the Cloud Control Panel
2. Click Create Server 1. Name: devstack-havana 2. Image: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 3. Flavor: Performance 1 > 4GB Performance (you could probably get away with 2 GB)
3. Click Create Server and note the password and IPv4 address (when it appears)
4. When your server is Active, switch to a Terminal and run the following commands: 1. ssh root@my.ip.v4.address 2. apt-get -y update 3. apt-get -y install git vim 4. git clone https://github.com/openstack-dev/devstack.git -b stable/havana devstack/ 5. devstack/tools/create-stack-user.sh 6. su stack 7. cd 8. git clone https://github.com/openstack-dev/devstack.git -b stable/havana devstack/ 9. cd devstack/ 10. vim localrc # copy in the contents of the one below 11. ./stack.sh
5. To access your DevStack screen session: 1. sudo chmod o+rwx /dev/pts/0 2. screen -r stack
6. To work with OpenStack via the API: 1. curl -s -X POST http://my.ip.v4.address:5000/v2.0/tokens -d '{"auth": {"passwordCredentials": {"username":"demo", "password":"devstack"}, "tenantName":"demo"}}' -H "Content-type: application/json" | python -m json.tool
7. To work with OpenStack Nova (Compute) via the command line: 1. source /opt/stack/python-novaclient/tools/nova.bash_completion 2. source openrc demo demo 3. nova image-list
8. To work with OpenStack via the web browser: 1. Go to http://my.ip.v4.address 2. User Name: demo 3. Password: devstack

Coda

Happy DevStacking!