In our previous article, we described how to create a simple OpenStack environment with a couple spare laptops.Now let’s assume you are a user in that cloud, and need to do something useful with it. What’s next?
Since part of my daily job is related to maintaining the Packstack codebase, I routinely run OpenStack installations every day… in a single VM, in my laptop, just to delete them a couple hours later. But sometimes I need to test some script or code over a live OpenStack installation, and I’d like to have a more stable environment to play with. Sure, there are public environments like TryStack, but I had a couple old laptops lying around, so why not play with them?
So the plan for today is to take these two laptops, install RDO on them, and have them be part of my home network, so that instances can connect to the Internet and get packages from the official repositories, and I can connect to them from my laptop using a floating IP in the same IP range as my home network.
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