Provision an OpenStack instance with Terraform

A quick way to create an instance on OpenStack is to use Terraform, an open-source Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tool developed by HashiCorp. Here is my environment, quickly drawn 😉 : This instance will be provisioned with Linux CirrOS. The Terraform plan that i used : The provider to use to interact with OpenStack is terraform-provider-openstack : … Read more

Installing OpenStack on Ubuntu

Here are the steps to install OpenStack with DevStack on Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS. DevStack really simplifies the installation of OpenStack. I followed the steps described here : https://docs.openstack.org/devstack/latest/ 1) First you need to create the user “stack” : sudo useradd -s /bin/bash -d /opt/stack -m stack 2) That user should have no password and have … Read more