Use the cloud to build the cloud! Use your cloud to launch new versions of OpenStack in about 5 minutes. If you break it, start over! The VMs launched in the cloud will be slow as they are running in QEMU (emulation), but their primary use is testing OpenStack development and operation.
DevStack should run in any virtual machine running a supported Linux release. It will perform best with 4GB or more of RAM.
If the cloud service has an image with cloud-init
pre-installed, use
it. You can get one from Ubuntu’s Daily
Build site if necessary. This will
enable you to launch VMs with userdata that installs everything at boot
time. The userdata script below will install and run DevStack with a
minimal configuration. The use of cloud-init
is outside the scope of
this document, refer to the cloud-init
docs for more information.
If you are directly using a hypervisor like Xen, kvm or VirtualBox you can manually kick off the script below as a non-root user in a bare-bones server installation.
This cloud config grabs the latest version of DevStack via git, creates
a minimal local.conf
file and kicks off stack.sh
. It should be
passed as the user-data file when booting the VM.
#cloud-config
users:
- default
- name: stack
lock_passwd: False
sudo: ["ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL\nDefaults:stack !requiretty"]
shell: /bin/bash
write_files:
- content: |
#!/bin/sh
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive sudo apt-get -qqy update || sudo yum update -qy
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive sudo apt-get install -qqy git || sudo yum install -qy git
sudo chown stack:stack /home/stack
cd /home/stack
git clone https://git.openstack.org/openstack-dev/devstack
cd devstack
echo '[[local|localrc]]' > local.conf
echo ADMIN_PASSWORD=password >> local.conf
echo DATABASE_PASSWORD=password >> local.conf
echo RABBIT_PASSWORD=password >> local.conf
echo SERVICE_PASSWORD=password >> local.conf
./stack.sh
path: /home/stack/start.sh
permissions: 0755
runcmd:
- su -l stack ./start.sh
As DevStack will refuse to run as root, this configures cloud-init
to create a non-root user and run the start.sh
script as that user.
If you are using cloud-init and you have not
enabled custom logging of the stack
output, then the stack output can be found in
/var/log/cloud-init-output.log
by default.
Using a hypervisor directly, launch the VM and either manually perform the steps in the embedded shell script above or copy it into the VM.
At this point you should be able to access the dashboard. Launch VMs and if you give them floating IPs, access those VMs from other machines on your network.
One interesting use case is for developers working on a VM on their
laptop. Once stack.sh
has completed once, all of the pre-requisite
packages are installed in the VM and the source trees checked out.
Setting OFFLINE=True
in local.conf
enables stack.sh
to run
multiple times without an Internet connection. DevStack, making hacking
at the lake possible since 2012!
Except where otherwise noted, this document is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. See all OpenStack Legal Documents.