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 3.5, “Preparing Oracle Linux Nodes” and Section 3.6, “Preparing Oracle VM Server Nodes”.

You deploy OpenStack services from a master node using the kollacli command. Typically, you use a controller node as a master node. However, if you prefer, you can use a separate host as a master node, which is prepared as described in Section 3.7, “Preparing a Separate Master Node”.