Before starting the installation, review the sample configurations offered by SUSE OpenStack Cloud in Chapter 9, Example Configurations. SUSE OpenStack Cloud ships with highly tuned example configurations for each of these cloud models:
The Cloud Lifecycle Manager can be installed on a Control Plane or on a stand-alone server.
In SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9, a local git repository is used to track configuration changes; the Configuration Processor (CP) uses this repository. Use of a git workflow means that your configuration history is maintained, making rollbacks easier and keeping a record of previous configuration settings.…
For information about when to use the GUI installer and when to use the command line (CLI), see Chapter 13, Overview.
For information about when to use the GUI installer and when to use the command line (CLI), see Chapter 13, Overview.
The SUSE OpenStack Cloud DNS Service supports several different backends for domain name service. The choice of backend must be included in the deployment model before the SUSE OpenStack Cloud install is completed.
The SUSE OpenStack Cloud Magnum Service provides container orchestration engines such as Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, and Apache Mesos available as first class resources. SUSE OpenStack Cloud Magnum uses heat to orchestrate an OS image which contains Docker and Kubernetes and runs that image in either …
This section describes the installation step requirements for ESX Computes (nova-proxy) and OVSvAPP.
This section describes the installation and integration of NSX-v, a Software Defined Networking (SDN) network virtualization and security platform for VMware's vSphere.
Bare Metal as a Service is enabled in this release for deployment of nova instances on bare metal nodes using flat networking.
This page describes the installation step requirements for the SUSE OpenStack Cloud Entry-scale Cloud with swift Only model.
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9 supports SLES compute nodes, specifically SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4. SUSE does not ship a SLES ISO with SUSE OpenStack Cloud so you will need to download a copy of the SLES ISO (SLE-12-SP4-Server-DVD-x86_64-GM-DVD1.iso) from SUSE. You can use the following link to do…
The OpenStack Shared File Systems service (manila) provides file storage to a virtual machine. The Shared File Systems service provides a storage provisioning control plane for shared or distributed file systems. The service enables management of share types and share snapshots if you have a driver …
This chapter describes how to install SUSE CaaS Platform v3 using heat template on SUSE OpenStack Cloud.
More information about the SUSE CaaS Platform v4 is available at https://documentation.suse.com/suse-caasp/4.0/html/caasp-deployment/_deployment_instructions.html#_deployment_on_suse_openstack_cloud
Once you have completed your cloud installation, these are some of the common integrations you may want to perform.
We have gathered some of the common issues that occur during installation and organized them by when they occur during the installation. These sections will coincide with the steps labeled in the installation instructions.
This section contains troubleshooting tasks for your SUSE® OpenStack Cloud 9 for ESX.