Installing OpenStack Compute on Debian

Starting with Debian 7.0 "Wheezy", the OpenStack packages are provided as part of the distribution. Some non-official packages for Grizzly on Debian are available here:

        deb http://archive.gplhost.com/debian grizzly main 
        deb http://archive.gplhost.com/debian grizzly-backports main

For the management or controller node install the following packages: (via apt-get install)

nova-api
nova-scheduler
nova-conductor
glance
keystone
mysql-server
rabbitmq
memcached
openstack-dashboard

For the compute node(s) install the following packages:

nova-compute
nova-network
nova-api

	Note
Because this manual takes active advantage of the "sudo" command, it would be easier for you to add to it your Debian system, by doing: # usermod -a -G sudo "myuser" then re-login. Otherwise you will have to replace every "sudo" call by executing from root account.

Note

Because this manual takes active advantage of the "sudo" command, it would be easier for you to add to it your Debian system, by doing:

# usermod -a -G sudo "myuser"

then re-login. Otherwise you will have to replace every "sudo" call by executing from root account.

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