Running the OpenStack-Ansible playbooks

To install OpenStack, we simply run the relevant playbooks. There are three main playbooks in total that we will be using:

  • setup-hosts.yml
  • setup-infrastructure.yml
  • setup-openstack.yml

Getting ready

Ensure that you are the root user on the deployment host. In most cases, this is the first infrastructure controller node, infra01.

How to do it…

To install OpenStack using the OpenStack-Ansible playbooks, you navigate to the playbooks directory of the checked out Git repository, then execute each playbook in turn:

  1. First change to the playbooks directory by executing the following command:
    cd /opt/openstack-ansible/playbooks
  2. The first step is to run a syntax check on your scripts and configuration. As we will be executing ...

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