Virtual lab - vagrant up!

In an ideal world, each of us would have access to physical servers and the network kit in order to learn, test, and experiment with OpenStack. However, most of the time this isn't the case. By using an orchestrated virtual lab, using Vagrant and VirtualBox, allows you to experience this chapter on OpenStack-Ansible using your laptop.

The following Vagrant lab can be found at http://openstackbook.online/.

This is the architecture of the Vagrant-based OpenStack environment:

Virtual lab - vagrant up!

Essentially there are three virtual machines that are created (a controller node, a compute node and a client machine), and each host has four network cards ...

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