openstack-manuals/doc/install-guide/source/preface.rst

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Preface

Abstract

The OpenStack system consists of several key services that are separately installed. These services work together depending on your cloud needs and include the Compute, Identity, Networking, Image, Block Storage, Object Storage, Telemetry, Orchestration, and Database services. You can install any of these projects separately and configure them stand-alone or as connected entities.

Explanations of configuration options and sample configuration files are included.

Note

The Training Labs scripts provide an automated way of deploying the cluster described in this Installation Guide into VirtualBox or KVM VMs. You will need a desktop computer or a laptop with at least 8 GB memory and 20 GB free storage running Linux, MacOS, or Windows. Please see the OpenStack Training Labs.

This guide documents the installation of OpenStack starting with the Pike release. It covers multiple releases.

Warning

This guide is a work-in-progress and is subject to updates frequently. Pre-release packages have been used for testing, and some instructions may not work with final versions. Please help us make this guide better by reporting any errors you encounter.

Operating systems

Currently, this guide describes OpenStack installation for the following Linux distributions:

openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

You can install OpenStack by using packages on openSUSE Leap 42.3, openSUSE Leap 15, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 through the Open Build Service Cloud repository.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS

You can install OpenStack by using packages available on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and its derivatives through the RDO repository.

Ubuntu

You can walk through an installation by using packages available through Canonical's Ubuntu Cloud archive repository for Ubuntu 16.04 (LTS).

Note

The Ubuntu Cloud Archive pockets for Pike and Queens provide OpenStack packages for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS; OpenStack Queens is installable direct using Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.