OpenStack Easy Installation

Log into your target Ubuntu 22.04 machine, clone the official DevStack repository, and enter the directory:

git clone https://opendev.org/openstack/devstack.git
cd devstack

Copy the sample configuration file to serve as your local configuration:

cp samples/local.conf .

Execute the installation script to download and install all required OpenStack services. This process may take 15-30 minutes depending on your internet connection and CPU resources:

./stack.sh

Once the script finishes successfully, the outputs will show your host configuration and credentials. You can access the Horizon Dashboard at the provided IP address:

This is your host IP address: 192.168.142.137
This is your host IPv6 address: ::1
Horizon is now available at http://192.168.142.137/dashboard
Keystone is serving at http://192.168.142.137/identity/
The default users are: admin and demo
The password: nomoresecret

Services are running under systemd unit files.
For more information see: 
https://docs.openstack.org/devstack/latest/systemd.html

DevStack Version: 2025.2
OS Version: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy

Verify that you can log in to the Horizon web UI using these credentials:

If your Ubuntu installation has constrained disk space allocated by default, extend the logical volume to utilize 100% of the free space on the volume group:

sudo lvextend -r -l +100%FREE /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv

Before running OpenStack CLI commands, create an administration credentials file named admin:

nano admin

Inside the file, paste the following environment variables (make sure to replace IP with your host IP address and PASSWD with your administrator password):

# Export credentials for administration
export OS_AUTH_TYPE=password
export OS_AUTH_URL=http://IP/identity/v3
export OS_IDENTITY_API_VERSION=3
export OS_USERNAME=admin
export OS_PASSWORD=PASSWD
export OS_PROJECT_NAME=admin
export OS_USER_DOMAIN_NAME=Default
export OS_PROJECT_DOMAIN_NAME=Default
export OS_REGION_NAME=RegionOne

Save the file and restrict its permissions for security:

chmod 600 admin

Now load the credentials into your current shell session and verify authentication by issuing a token:

source admin
openstack token issue

Download the latest official Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) cloud image and register it in OpenStack using the UEFI firmware property:

# Download the cloud image
wget https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/noble/current/noble-server-cloudimg-amd64.img

# Upload the image to OpenStack Glance
openstack image create "Ubuntu 24.04 Noble" \
  --file noble-server-cloudimg-amd64.img \
  --disk-format qcow2 \
  --container-format bare \
  --property hw_firmware_type=uefi

Download the official Debian 13 (Trixie) generic cloud image and register it in Glance with customized hardware properties for VirtIO SCSI and Linux metadata:

# Download the cloud image
wget https://cloud.debian.org/images/cloud/trixie/latest/debian-13-generic-amd64.qcow2

# Upload the image to OpenStack Glance with VirtIO SCSI properties
openstack image create "Debian 13 Trixie" \
  --file debian-13-generic-amd64.qcow2 \
  --disk-format qcow2 \
  --container-format bare \
  --property hw_disk_bus=scsi \
  --property hw_scsi_model=virtio-scsi \
  --property os_type=linux \
  --property os_distro=debian \
  --property os_admin_user=debian \
  --property os_version=13

Download the Oracle Linux 9 template image and register it in Glance:

# Download the Oracle Linux 9 KVM template
wget https://yum.oracle.com/templates/OracleLinux/OL9/u7/x86_64/OL9U7_x86_64-kvm-b269.qcow2

# Upload the image to OpenStack Glance
openstack image create "Oracle Linux 9" \
  --file OL9U7_x86_64-kvm-b269.qcow2 \
  --disk-format qcow2 \
  --container-format bare

Install the required Python client libraries for Nova, Neutron, and Glance to interact with OpenStack resources via the command-line interface:

sudo apt install -y python3-novaclient python3-neutronclient python3-glanceclient

After installing the clients and successfully authenticating (obtaining the token as shown in Step 6), execute the following commands to check what resources are available in the system:

openstack project list
openstack user list
openstack role list
openstack image list
openstack flavor list
openstack network list
openstack network list --external

Create a test instance, verify its status, and obtain the VNC URL to establish a console connection:

# Deploy a test instance with the CirrOS image
openstack server create \
  --flavor m1.tiny \
  --image cirros-0.6.3-x86_64-disk \
  --network private \
  vm-prueba

# Verify that the server is active and running
openstack server list

sleep 5

# Retrieve the noVNC console URL for remote connection
openstack console url show --novnc vm-prueba

Create a custom flavor for the E-commerce instance with 3 vCPUs, 4 GB RAM, and 50 GB disk space:

openstack flavor create ecom-3c-4g-50g \
  --vcpus 3 \
  --ram 4096 \
  --disk 50

On the storage server, compress the original image to optimize file size and reduce transfer times:

qemu-img convert -O qcow2 -c \
  ecom.qcow2 \
  ecom-compressed.qcow2

Copy the compressed image to your OpenStack control node (using SCP is typically faster):

scp user@10.0.4.146:/var/lib/libvirt/images/ecom-compressed.qcow2 .

Register the E-commerce image in Glance using the VirtIO disk bus and network interface properties:

openstack image create "ecom" \
  --file ./ecom-compressed.qcow2 \
  --disk-format qcow2 \
  --container-format bare \
  --property hw_disk_bus=virtio \
  --property hw_vif_model=virtio

Alternatively, you can stream the image transfer directly from a web server using curl to avoid storing it locally first:

openstack image create "ecom" \
  --disk-format qcow2 \
  --container-format bare \
  --property hw_disk_bus=virtio \
  --property hw_vif_model=virtio \
  --file <(curl -L http://IP:8080/ecom.qcow2)

Create a custom flavor for the Ubuntu Workstation instance with 4 vCPUs, 8 GB RAM, and 60 GB disk space:

openstack flavor create "ubuntu-workstation" \
  --vcpus 4 \
  --ram 8192 \
  --disk 60

On the storage server, compress the workstation image before transferring it:

qemu-img convert -O qcow2 -c \
  ubuntu24.04.qcow2 \
  ubuntu24.04-compressed.qcow2

Copy the compressed workstation image from the storage host:

scp user@10.0.4.146:/var/lib/libvirt/images/ubuntu24.04-compressed.qcow2 .

Register the workstation image in Glance with VirtIO configuration:

openstack image create "wkst-ubuntu" \
  --file ./ubuntu24.04-compressed.qcow2 \
  --disk-format qcow2 \
  --container-format bare \
  --property hw_disk_bus=virtio \
  --property hw_vif_model=virtio