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Copyright 2010 United States Government as represented by the
Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
All Rights Reserved.
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not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
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Getting Started with Nova
=========================
This code base is continually changing so dependencies also change.
Dependencies
------------
Related servers we rely on
* RabbitMQ: messaging queue, used for all communication between components
Optional servers
* OpenLDAP: By default, the auth server uses the RDBMS-backed datastore by setting FLAGS.auth_driver to 'nova.auth.dbdriver.DbDriver'. But OpenLDAP (or LDAP) could be configured.
* ReDIS: By default, this is not enabled as the auth driver.
Python libraries we don't vendor
* M2Crypto: python library interface for openssl
* curl
* XenAPI: Needed only for Xen Cloud Platform or XenServer support. Available from http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XCP_SDK or http://community.citrix.com/cdn/xs/sdks.
Vendored python libaries (don't require any installation)
* Twisted: just for the twisted.internet.defer package
* Tornado: scalable non blocking web server for api requests
* boto: python api for aws api
* IPy: library for managing ip addresses
Recommended
-----------------
* euca2ools: python implementation of aws ec2-tools and ami tools
* build tornado to use C module for evented section
Installation
--------------
Due to many changes it's best to rely on the `OpenStack wiki <http://wiki.openstack.org>`_ for installation instructions.
Configuration
---------------
These instructions are incomplete, but we are actively updating the `OpenStack wiki <http://wiki.openstack.org>`_ with more configuration information.
On the cloud controller
* Add yourself to the libvirtd group, log out, and log back in
* Fix hardcoded ec2 metadata/userdata uri ($IP is the IP of the cloud), and masqurade all traffic from launched instances
::
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -s 0.0.0.0/0 -d 169.254.169.254/32 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 80 -j DNAT --to-destination $IP:8773
iptables --table nat --append POSTROUTING --out-interface $PUBLICIFACE -j MASQUERADE
* Configure NginX proxy (/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default)
::
server {
listen 3333 default;
server-name localhost;
client_max_body_size 10m;
access_log /var/log/nginx/localhost.access.log;
location ~ /_images/.+ {
root NOVA_PATH/images;
rewrite ^/_images/(.*)$ /$1 break;
}
location / {
proxy_pass http://localhost:3334/;
}
}
On the volume node
* Create a filesystem (you can use an actual disk if you have one spare, default is /dev/sdb)
::
# This creates a 1GB file to create volumes out of
dd if=/dev/zero of=MY_FILE_PATH bs=100M count=10
losetup --show -f MY_FILE_PATH
# replace loop0 below with whatever losetup returns
echo "--storage_dev=/dev/loop0" >> NOVA_PATH/bin/nova.conf
Running
---------
Launch servers
* rabbitmq
* redis (optional)
Launch nova components
* nova-api
* nova-compute
* nova-objectstore
* nova-volume