OpenStack Hackspace

What you'll be doing

• Interacting with a production OpenStack deployment (Rackspace Public Cloud) using command-line tools
• Doing your own deployment of OpenStack (DevStack) inside of the Rackspace cloud
• Interacting with your OpenStack deployment using the OpenStack Dashboard
• Poking around your deployment to understand how OpenStack is implemented

What you need

This document assumes you have:

• Rackspace credentials
  • account name
  • password
• A computer with
  • Internet access
  • bash or zsh shell
  • Python
  • Python virtualenv package
  • SSH client

Talk to somebody in the room if you don't have these.

Exercises

• Getting started
• Compute
• Object storage
• DevStack
• Dashboard
• Under the hood: compute
• Under the hood: volumes
• Under the hood: networking
• Cleanup