Connecting to your Overcloud

Finally, before we dig into looking at the OpenStack components that have been installed and configured, let's identify three ways that you can connect to the freshly installed overcloud deployment:

  • From the undercloud: This is the quickest way to access the overcloud. When the overcloud deployment completed, a file named overcloudrc was created. In Chapter 2, Identity Management, we will investigate this file in more detail. Throughout the rest of the book, this method will be used.
  • Install the client libraries: Both RDO Triple-O and Packstack were installed from the RDO release repository. By installing this release repository, in the same way that was demonstrated earlier for Packstack on another computer, the OpenStack ...

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