Deploying Ubuntu OpenStack Kilo

Author: ronald
Source: Planet OpenStack

My previous Ubuntu OpenStack setup has been using the Juno release. I received some installation problems for Kilo using the stable repo and so I switched to using the experimental repo. This comes with a number of surface changes.

The interactive installation asks for the installation type first, and password second.
The IP range of installed OpenStack services changes from 10.0.4.x to 10.0.7.x.
Juju GUI is no longer installed by default. You need to specifically add this as a service after initial installation.
The GUI displays additional information during installation.
The LXC container name changes from uoi-bootstrap to openstack-single-<user>.

Uninstall any existing environment

Remove any existing installed OpenStack cloud.

sudo openstack-install -k
sudo openstack-install -u

NOTE: Be sure to remove your existing cloud before upgrading. Failing to do so will mean you need to manually cleanup some things with:

sudo lxc-stop --name uoi-bootstrap
sudo lxc-destroy --name uoi-bootstrap
rm -rf $HOME/.cloud_install

Update the OpenStack installer

Upgrade Ubuntu OpenStack with the following. In my environment this installed version 0.99.12.

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:cloud-installer/experimental
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade openstack

Install OpenStack Kilo

Installing an Ubuntu OpenStack environment still uses the openstack-install command.

sudo openstack-install --extra-ppa ppa:cloud-installer/experimental

NOTE: When using the experimental repo you must also specify the --extra-ppa argument. Not doing this will result in installation failure.

Adding Services

After setting up a Kilo cloud using Ubuntu OpenStack I was able to successfully add a Swift component. Something else that was not quite working as expected in stable.