Couch to OpenStack – Keystone Follow-Up

Thanks everyone for coming along last night. To recap we: Used git to clone the Couch to OpenStack repo Used Vagrant to stand up the ‘controller’ VM Use the Vagrant shell provisioner to install Ubuntu Grizzly repos MySQL KeyStone Setup .stackrc with environment variables Discussed OpenStack Identity authentication and authorization process flow Discussed OpenStack Concepts
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[Couch to OpenStack] Homework Assignment – Github, Install MySQL / Keystone

Now that we have Vagrant up and running and a good understanding of how to bring a vagrant box up and down, let’s take this next week and do the following for homework: Sign up for a GitHub account Fork the Couch_to_OpenStack repo (https://github.com/bunchc/Couch_to_OpenStack/) Review the guide here: http://docs.openstack.org/grizzly/basic-install/apt/content/basic-install_controller.html#basic-install_controller-common Install MySQL and Keystone Submit Changes to
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Couch to OpenStack – Vagrant Primer Follow-up

Last night Mr. VMTrooper himself (@VMTrooper) walked us through the basics of Vagrant. That is, we started with nothing, installed Vagrant and VirtualBox. From there we spun up the first VM. Then we delved into some of the various provisioners, scripts, and more advanced multi-vm vagrant environments. If you are following along and get stuck,
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Getting Started with Vagrant & VirtualBox

Part of the pre-work / homework for next weeks “Couch to OpenStack” program is to get a Vagrant environment going on your laptop (or wherever else you choose to run these things). We’re not going to go into the “Why Vagrant” or “What is Vagrant” questions. Those are better answered elsewhere. What follows are the
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#vBrownBag Couch to OpenStack – Intro Follow-Up

Well, how’s that for some lessons learned! Last night we didn’t get as far as I had planned and for that, I apologize. However, we’re not going to let that stop us are we? We’ve adjusted the schedule to add a night dedicated to a Vagrant primer & Lab tools needed for the rest of
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Pre-Work: Couch to OpenStack #vBrownBag

Consider this the official announcement and 48 hour warning for those that want to dive head first into OpenStack. If don’t know about the program, or want to sign up, check here. Couch to OpenStack Materials Needed for Day 1 git (http://github.com/) vagrant (http://vagrantup.com) Internets (3 to 4 acres of internet will be fine) VirtualBox
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#vBrownBag Podcast – Couch to OpenStack!

In the theme of Couch to 5k which is more or less a getting started with getting fit, I’ll be kicking off July 2013 with a “Couch to OpenStack” series of blog posts and podcasts. We’ll begin at the beginning with a quick overview of OpenStack and it’s varied projects. We will then begin a
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Convert & Import a VMware Image to OpenStack (KVM)

In playing around with the OpenStack Private Cloud distro (here), it comes with two Linux distributions by default. However, having come from a Windows background, I needed to get that going. In order to do that, I first had to convert one of my existing Windows images to a KVM format, that is what follows:
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