Applies to SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7

Part III Setting Up OpenStack Nodes and Services

8 The Crowbar Web Interface

The Crowbar Web interface runs on the Administration Server. It provides an overview of the most important deployment details in your cloud. This includes a view on the nodes and which roles are deployed on which nodes, and on the barclamp proposals that can be edited and deployed. In addition, the Crowbar Web interface shows details about the networks and switches in your cloud. It also provides graphical access to tools you can use to manage your repositories, back up or restore the Administration Server, export the Chef configuration, or generate a supportconfig TAR archive with the most important log files.

9 Installing the OpenStack Nodes

The OpenStack nodes represent the actual cloud infrastructure. Node installation and service deployment is done automatically from the Administration Server. Before deploying the OpenStack services, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 will be installed on all Control Nodes and Storage Nodes.

10 Deploying the OpenStack Services

After the nodes are installed and configured you can start deploying the OpenStack components to finalize the installation. The components need to be deployed in a given order, because they depend on one another. The Pacemaker component for an HA setup is the only exception from this rule—it can be …

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