updated: 2017/02/03
Introduction to Fuel InstallationΒΆ
This section provides an overview of the Fuel installation process. You can install Fuel either using pre-built ISO image or using rpm packages available on one of Fuel mirrors. Using ISO you can install Fuel on a server with an Internet connection or on a server that is isolated from the Internet for security reasons. Depending on your choice, the workflow differs.
This section includes the following topics:
updated: 2017/02/03
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Contents
- Fuel Installation Guide
- Introduction to Fuel Installation
- System requirements
- Hardware requirements
- Fuel Master node hardware requirements
- Fuel Slave nodes hardware recommendations
- Network requirements
- Fuel Master Node network requirements
- Storage requirements
- Additional components
- Prerequisites for the OpenStack bare-metal service
- Bare Metal service limitations
- Sample hardware configuration for Fuel Slave nodes
- Install Fuel
- Before you install Fuel
- Download the ISO image
- Prepare an installation media
- Create a DVD drive
- Create a USB drive with the Fuel ISO on a UNIX system
- Install the Fuel Master node
- Set up Fuel
- Change the Admin (PXE) network interface
- Configure a network interface for the Fuel web UI
- Log in to the Fuel Master node
- Log in to the Fuel Master node with multiple NICs
- Boot the Fuel Slave nodes
- Configure a bootstrap image
- Overview of the Fuel bootstrap builder
- The fuel-bootstrap container format
- View available bootstraps
- Select a bootstrap image
- Build a bootstrap image with an additional package
- Install a custom kernel
- Install the latest kernel
- Install an old kernel
- Inject custom SSL certificates
- Inject a driver from .deb packages
- Enable advanced debugging
- Troubleshoot custom bootstrap building
- Set up a local repository
- Fuel Plugins
- Install Fuel on VMware vSphere
- VMware vSphere prerequisites
- Configure ESXi host networking
- Upload the Fuel ISO to the VMware vSphere datastore
- Configure networks
- Create the Fuel Master node virtual machine
- Mount the Fuel ISO
- Install the Fuel Master node on VMware vSphere
- Boot the Fuel Master node
- Verify the Fuel Master node operation
- Update Fuel to latest Mitaka
- Upgrade Fuel
- Pre-installation checklists
- Fuel User Guide
- Introduction to the User Guide
- Create a new OpenStack environment
- Configure your environment
- Add a node to an OpenStack environment
- Label an OpenStack node
- Change the role of a node
- Decompose the controller node services
- Modify the Fuel Slave node host name
- Select a bootable device for a node
- Configure network settings
- Configure network bonding
- Edit the offloading mode
- Map a logical network to a physical interface
- Verify network configuration
- Deploy network configurations using network templates
- Configure disk partitioning
- Change the configuration drive format
- Configure the OpenStack environment settings
- Change the DNS and NTP server settings
- Configure an OpenStack environment on nodes with multipath block devices
- Configure workload acceleration
- Modify the deployment workflow
- Enable USB devices discovery
- Configure VMware vCenter settings
- Install additional components
- Deploy an OpenStack environment
- Modify an OpenStack environment after deployment
- Next Steps
- Configure additional components
- Verify your OpenStack environment
- Manage your OpenStack environment
- Maintain your OpenStack environment
- Installing and Managing Plugins
- Fuel configuration files reference
- astute.yaml (Fuel Master node)
- astute.yaml (Fuel Slave nodes)
- Usage
- File Format
- Basic networking configuration
- Nova configuration
- Swift configuration
- mp configuration
- Glance configuration
- Mellanox configuration
- NTP configuration
- Zabbix configuration
- Definition of puppet tasks
- Ceilometer configuration
- Public networking configuration
- Heat configuration
- Fuel version
- NSX configuration
- Controller nodes configuration
- MongoDB nodes configuration
- Sahara configuration
- Provisioning configuration
- Storage configuration
- Keystone configuration
- Cinder configuration
- Corosync configuration
- Miscellaneous configs to look at later
- Syslog configuration
- External MongoDB configuration
- Murano configuration
- More miscellaneous configs
- vCenter configuration
- Syslog configuration
- engine.yaml
- network_1.yaml
- openstack.yaml
- settings.yaml
- Use the Fuel CLI
- Fuel CLI commands comparison matrix
- Interpretation of acronyms in Fuel commands
- Basic usage
- Modify the Fuel CLI configuration file
- Fuel management commands
- Environment commands
- Provisioning commands
- Deployment commands
- Network commands
- Network group management commands
- Network template management commands
- Virtual IP management commands
- Node management commands
- Node group management commands
- Role management commands
- Deploy a node with an empty role
- Plugin management commands
- Deployment workflows management commands
- Modify the configuration of the OpenStack services
- Workflow of the configuration change override
- Add network ranges
- Modify an Openstack environment using CLI
- Detect custom configurations in an OpenStack environment
- Fuel IaC: Git repository management commands
- Fuel IaC: Audit commands
- Troubleshooting
- Fuel Release Notes
- New features
- Fuel Master node backup and restore
- Fuel web UI features
- Fuel CLI versions consolidation
- Fuel plugins features
- Data-driven workflows for basic environment actions
- Verification of the VMware vCenter server certificate
- SSH brute force protection
- Creation of targeted diagnostic snapshots with Timmy
- S3 API authentication through Keystone
- Basic DMZ enablement
- User documentation
- Resolved issues
- Known issues
- How to obtain Fuel
- New features
- Developer Guide
- Fuel Architecture
- Sequence Diagrams
- Fuel Development Quick-Start
- Fuel Development Examples
- Fuel Development Environment
- System Tests
- Fuel Development Environment on Live Master Node
- Nailgun
- Nailgun Development Instructions
- Nailgun Customization Instructions
- Contributing to Fuel Library
- Using Fuel settings
- Example module
- Resource duplication and file conflicts
- Puppet module containment
- Puppet scope and variables
- Where to find more information
- Fuel Master Node Deployment over PXE
- Health Check (OSTF) Contributor’s Guide
- Bootstrap node
- Modular Architecture
- DevOps Guide
- Fuel ISO build system
- Fuel Infra configuration
- Packaging
- Fuel Plugin SDK Guide
- Introduction to the Fuel Plugin SDK Guide
- About Fuel plugins
- Overview of existing plugins
- Create a development environment
- Create a Fuel plugin
- Install Fuel Plugin Builder
- Create an automatically generated plugin
- Describe your plugin
- Define plugin actions
- Actions for existing roles
- Plugin settings
- Plugin specific node roles
- Additional attributes for NICs, bonds, and nodes
- Modify the Fuel web UI
- Plugin repositories
- Add plugin to DriverLog
- Plugin versioning system
- Requirements
- Limitations
- Reference
- FAQ
- Additional information