Installing the OpenStack Identity Service

We will be performing an installation and configuration of the OpenStack Identity service, known as Keystone, using the Ubuntu Cloud Archive. Once configured, connecting to our OpenStack cloud environment will be performed through our new OpenStack Identity service.

The backend datastore for our OpenStack Identity service will be a MariaDB database. The environment we will be installing is shown in the following figure. In this chapter, we will be concentrating on the Controller host.

Installing the OpenStack Identity Service

Getting ready

To ensure that we're running the Ubuntu Cloud Archive, we must first configure our Ubuntu 14.04 installation to ...

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