openstack-ansible/deploy-guide/source/overview.rst
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Overview

Note

For essential background reading to help understand the service and storage architecture, please read OpenStack-Ansible Architecture in its reference guide If you'd like to understand when OpenStack-Ansible would be a good fit for your organisation, please read the appendix "app-aboutosa".

This guide refers to the following types of hosts:

  • Deployment host, which runs the Ansible playbooks
  • Target hosts, where Ansible installs OpenStack services and infrastructure components

Installation workflow

The following diagram shows the general workflow of an OpenStack-Ansible installation.

Installation requirements and recommendations