With the plan [1] to stop enabling it by Neutron iptables firewall driver itself, deployment tools should catch up and enable the firewall themselves. This is needed for distributions that decided to disable the kernel firewall by default (upstream kernel has it enabled). This is also needed for distributions that ship newer kernels but don't load the br_netfilter module before starting nova-network or Neutron iptables firewall driver. In the latter case, firewall may not work, depending on the order of operations executed by the driver. To isolate devstack setups from the difference in distribution kernel configuration and version, the following steps are done: - we load bridge kernel module, and br_netfilter if present, to get access to sysctl knobs controlling the firewall; - once knobs are available, we unconditionally set them to 1, to make sure the firewall is in effect. More details at: http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Net.bridge.bridge-nf-call_and_sysctl.conf [1] I9137ea017624ac92a05f73863b77f9ee4681bbe7 Change-Id: Id6bfd9595f0772a63d1096ef83ebbb6cd630fafd Related-Bug: #1622914
DevStack is a set of scripts and utilities to quickly deploy an OpenStack cloud.
Goals
- To quickly build dev OpenStack environments in a clean Ubuntu or Fedora environment
- To describe working configurations of OpenStack (which code branches work together? what do config files look like for those branches?)
- To make it easier for developers to dive into OpenStack so that they can productively contribute without having to understand every part of the system at once
- To make it easy to prototype cross-project features
- To provide an environment for the OpenStack CI testing on every commit to the projects
Read more at http://docs.openstack.org/developer/devstack
IMPORTANT: Be sure to carefully read stack.sh
and any other scripts you
execute before you run them, as they install software and will alter your
networking configuration. We strongly recommend that you run stack.sh
in a clean and disposable vm when you are first getting started.
Versions
The DevStack master branch generally points to trunk versions of OpenStack components. For older, stable versions, look for branches named stable/[release] in the DevStack repo. For example, you can do the following to create a juno OpenStack cloud:
git checkout stable/juno
./stack.sh
You can also pick specific OpenStack project releases by setting the appropriate
*_BRANCH
variables in the localrc
section of local.conf
(look in
stackrc
for the default set). Usually just before a release there will be
milestone-proposed branches that need to be tested::
GLANCE_REPO=git://git.openstack.org/openstack/glance.git
GLANCE_BRANCH=milestone-proposed
Start A Dev Cloud
Installing in a dedicated disposable VM is safer than installing on your dev machine! Plus you can pick one of the supported Linux distros for your VM. To start a dev cloud run the following NOT AS ROOT (see DevStack Execution Environment below for more on user accounts):
./stack.sh
When the script finishes executing, you should be able to access OpenStack endpoints, like so:
- Horizon: http://myhost/
- Keystone: http://myhost:5000/v2.0/
We also provide an environment file that you can use to interact with your cloud via CLI:
# source openrc file to load your environment with OpenStack CLI creds
. openrc
# list instances
nova list
DevStack Execution Environment
DevStack runs rampant over the system it runs on, installing things and uninstalling other things. Running this on a system you care about is a recipe for disappointment, or worse. Alas, we're all in the virtualization business here, so run it in a VM. And take advantage of the snapshot capabilities of your hypervisor of choice to reduce testing cycle times. You might even save enough time to write one more feature before the next feature freeze...
stack.sh
needs to have root access for a lot of tasks, but uses
sudo
for all of those tasks. However, it needs to be not-root for
most of its work and for all of the OpenStack services. stack.sh
specifically does not run if started as root.
DevStack will not automatically create the user, but provides a helper
script in tools/create-stack-user.sh
. Run that (as root!) or just
check it out to see what DevStack's expectations are for the account
it runs under. Many people simply use their usual login (the default
'ubuntu' login on a UEC image for example).
Customizing
DevStack can be extensively configured via the configuration file
local.conf
. It is likely that you will need to provide and modify
this file if you want anything other than the most basic setup. Start
by reading the configuration guide for
details of the configuration file and the many available options.