OpenStack installation

The list of components that have been covered is not the full list. This is just a small subset to get you started with using and understanding OpenStack. Further components that are defaults in an OpenStack installation provide many advanced capabilities that we will not be able to cover. Now that we have introduced the OpenStack components, we will illustrate how they work together as a running OpenStack installation. To illustrate an OpenStack installation, we first need to install one. Let's use the RDO Project's OpenStack distribution to do that. RDO has two installation methods; we will discuss both of them and focus on one of them throughout this book.

Manual installation and configuration of OpenStack involves installing, ...

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