In this series of blogs, I will be explaining of openstack. I will be deploying openstack on my laptop (ubuntu), will be mentioning all the steps.

Openstack is a cloud ecosystem that controls large pool of storage,compute and networking resources throughout a datacenter. This is all managed with a dashboard that gives the administration control. Openstack is an opensource project,which has developed by opensource community.

Following are the components in Openstack:

• Identity Service “Keystone”
• Image Service “Glance”
• Compute Service “Nova”
• Networking “Neutron”
• Dashboard “Horizon”
• Block Storage “Cinder”
• Object Storage “Swift”
• Orchestration “Heat”
• Telemetry “Ceilometer”

Before we start deployment few of the analogy must be cleared:

• Host Operating system (host): OS which is installed on your laptop/desktop, where we will install our virtualbox or any other virtualization software.
• Guest Operating system (Guest): The OS which is installed in virtualbox environment. This is virtual instance independent of Host OS.
• Compute node: Requires hypervisor (KVM/Qemu).
• Network node: Provides network as a service and virtual network in openstack.

Virtual Machine Sever minimum requirements:

• Controller Node: 1 CPU,2 GB  memory and 5 GB storage
• Network Node: 1 CPU,512 MB memory and 5 GB storage
• Compute Node: 1 CPU, 2 GB memory and 10 GB storage

Next series of blogs, I will be explaining basic components,network requirement and virtual box deployment.