Manually testing the installation

Once the installation has completed successfully, the first step is to test the install. Testing OpenStack involves both automated and manual checks.

Manual tests verify user-journeys that may not normally be picked up through automated testing, such as ensuring horizon is displayed properly.

Automated tests can be invoked using a testing framework such as tempest or the OpenStack benchmarking tool—rally.

Getting ready

Ensure that you are root on the first infrastructure controller node, infra01.

How to do it…

The installation of OpenStack-Ansible creates several utility containers on each of the infra nodes. These utility hosts provide all the command-line tools needed to try out OpenStack, using the command line of ...

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