Chapter 3 Preparing the Basic Environment

The systems in an OpenStack deployment are known as nodes. The nodes in a deployment are either Oracle Linux nodes or Oracle VM Server compute nodes. To prepare nodes for deployment, you set up the system and configure the Docker Engine, as described in Section 3.4, “Preparing Oracle Linux Nodes” and Section 3.5, “Preparing Oracle VM Server Compute Nodes”.

You deploy OpenStack services from a master node using the kollacli command. Section 3.6, “Preparing a Master Node” describes how to set up a master node.

OpenStack services are deployed to each node as Docker containers. The containers are created from Docker images, which are stored in a Docker registry. Section 3.7, “Setting up the Docker Registry” describes how to set up a Docker registry server and to import the Oracle OpenStack for Oracle Linux images.