Chapter 8. Walking through a Compute deployment
This chapter covers
- Installing Open vSwitch (OVS) on a compute node
- Deploying OpenStack Networking components on an OpenStack compute node
- Integrating OVS components with OpenStack Networking on a compute node
- Setting up KVM as an OpenStack Compute hypervisor
- Integrating OpenStack Compute-supporting components on a compute node
In chapter 5 you deployed an OpenStack controller node, which provides the server-side management of OpenStack services. In chapters 6 and 7, you deployed standalone resource nodes for network and storage services.
In this chapter, you’ll deploy another standalone resource node, and this one will consume resources provided by the storage and network nodes. Later, in chapter 8, you’ll walk through the deployment of OpenStack Compute services on a resource node. The overall multi-node architecture introduced in chapter 5 is shown again in figure 8.1, with this chapter’s Compute components shown at the lower middle.
Figure 8.2 shows your current progress on your way to a working manual deployment. In this chapter, you’ll take the final step in your manual deployment—you’ll add compute capabilities (hypervisor, network, and so on).
