Guides¶
Warning
The guides are point in time contributions, and may not always be up to date with the latest work in devstack.
Walk through various setups used by stackers
All-In-One Single VM¶
Run OpenStack in a VM. The VMs launched in your cloud will be slow as they are running in QEMU (emulation), but it is useful if you don’t have spare hardware laying around. [Read]
All-In-One Single Machine¶
Run OpenStack on dedicated hardware This can include a server-class machine or a laptop at home. [Read]
All-In-One LXC Container¶
Run OpenStack in a LXC container. Beneficial for intermediate and advanced users. The VMs launched in this cloud will be fully accelerated but not all OpenStack features are supported. [Read]
Multi-Node Lab¶
Setup a multi-node cluster with dedicated VLANs for VMs & Management. [Read]
DevStack with Neutron Networking¶
Building a DevStack cluster with Neutron Networking. This guide is meant for building lab environments with a dedicated control node and multiple compute nodes.
DevStack with KVM-based Nested Virtualization¶
Procedure to setup DevStack with KVM-based Nested Virtualization. With this setup, Nova instances will be more performant than with plain QEMU emulation.
Nova and devstack¶
Guide to working with nova features Nova and devstack.