Chapter 7. Walking through a Block Storage deployment

In chapter 5 you walked through the deployment of an OpenStack controller node, which provides the server-side management of OpenStack services. During the controller deployment, you set up controller-side configurations for several OpenStack core services including Networking, Compute, and Storage. The configurations for each core service were discussed in relation to the controller, but the services themselves weren’t discussed in detail.

In chapter 6 you deployed your first standalone resource node. That node will provide OpenStack Networking services for the deployment. In this chapter, you’ll deploy another standalone resource node that will provide OpenStack Block Storage services for the deployment.

You’re now halfway through your manual OpenStack deployment, as shown in figure 7.1.

Take another look at the multi-node architecture introduced in chapter 5, shown in figure 7.2. In this chapter, you’ll deploy the OpenStack Block Storage components at the lower left of the figure. You’ll deploy them manually on a standalone node. If you’ve worked in virtual environments before, this chapter is unlikely to introduce any fundamental concepts that will seem strange to you.

7.1. Deploying Block Storage prerequisites

7.2. Deploying Cinder

7.3. Testing Cinder

7.4. Summary