Chapter 8. Walking through a Compute deployment

This chapter covers

  • Installing Open vSwitch (OVS) on a compute node
  • Deploying OpenStack Networking components on an OpenStack compute node
  • Integrating OVS components with OpenStack Networking on a compute node
  • Setting up KVM as an OpenStack Compute hypervisor
  • Integrating OpenStack Compute-supporting components on a compute node

In chapter 5 you deployed an OpenStack controller node, which provides the server-side management of OpenStack services. In chapters 6 and 7, you deployed standalone resource nodes for network and storage services.

In this chapter, you’ll deploy another standalone resource node, and this one will consume resources provided by the storage and network nodes. Later, ...

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