Chapter 5. Provisioning Database Instances

At this juncture, we are ready to provision our first database instance. We will use the image that we created in the previous chapter. In case you did not create an image in the previous chapter, we could also use the test images that we can download from http://tarballs.openstack.org/trove/images/ubuntu/ (see previous chapter for details) or get other images purpose built for OpenStack Trove provided by companies like Tesora.

Checking for prerequisites

So, now that we are ready to provision, we need to check that the system has all that it needs to provision a database instance for us.

We will quickly check the following:

  • Flavors available: We can check this by using the command trove flavor-list, which ...

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