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Smart Installer

Smart Installer
Written By
Jason Brooks
Jason Brooks
Jun 20, 2011
1 minute read
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Smart Installer

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StackOps sports a free, Web-based smart installer application which stores cloud configurations. For single-node configurations, it isn’t necessary to create an account on the service.


Deploy Time

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The Smart Installer Web app collects the configuration form responses to pass back to the relevant node when its time for deployment.


Instance One

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After firing up our first OpenStack instance, we could check on its status with the euca-describe-instances tool.


Dual Node Configuration

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The StackOps Smart Installer also allows for deploying dual or multi-node OpenStack installations.


Hypervisor Options

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StackOps supports KVM and Qemu as hypervisor options. The slower qemu is required for compute nodes without hardware extensions for virtualization.


Deployment Options

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The fastest route to a test OpenStack instance is a single node deployment, but StackOps can work with dual and multinode configurations, as well.


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Controller Configuration

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Single node installations require very little configuration fiddling to get working—there’s little more to work out than which addresses on your test network to allocate for guest instances.


OpenStack Dashboard

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The OpenStack project includes a reference implementation of a Web-based admin console, which enabled us to perform some basic functions.

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