DevStack: Quickly Develop or Test OpenStack

Introduction

If you want to quickly test OpenStack^1, whether for playing around or developing with it, DevStack^2 is currently the fastest method.

I started with an Ubuntu Server 12.04 base as this distribution is one of the versions recommended by DevStack. The goal here is to have a VM with all OpenStack services installed and functional.

Installation

To set up DevStack, we'll need git:

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aptitude install git git-core

Now let's get the current version of DevStack, and switch to the desired version (Grizzly):

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git clone git://github.com/openstack-dev/devstack.git
cd devstack
git checkout stable/grizzly

Then launch the installation and provide all requested passwords:

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./stack.sh

Utilization

To launch a development stack:

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./stack.sh

When the installation is complete, you can access the different services like this:

• Horizon: http://server/
• Keystone: http://server:5000/v2.0/

The default users are admin and demo

For more information, check the GitHub^3 page for DevStack.

References