In this video, we look into installing Placement and Nova services. The Placement service is used to gather statistics about your cluster and figure out where to put instances. Nova is the controller and compute nodes that will do the actual work.

I am looking into POE (Power Over Ethernet). What is required to run servers without having a power cord? I’ve been really curious, so it was fun to learn about it.

We look into how to set up FastCGI Process Manager (FPM). What configuration options and considerations are important.

In this video, we look into installing the Horizon dashboard and the Cinder volume storage. The volume storage will utilize Ceph as a backend, so we take a couple of extra steps for that to work.

We look into how to set up FastCGI Process Manager (FPM). What configuration options and considerations are important.

In this video, we will install Glance an OpenStack component required for storing your images. Glance can utilize Ceph as a backend, and we want this setup, so there are some extra steps required.

We are looking into installing Redhat 9 without any interaction using Kickstart. Kickstart is a tooling that gives you configuration options to prepare your system and manage the installation flow.

In this video, we go through how to install all the required prerequisite packages and Keystone.

We build a rack and I walk about what goes into the building process and showing the process. We also talk about networking like keystone jacks and cable management.

I got a new fancy box with a network switch. This is just a unpacking and first impression kind of video of a bargen buy for my new rack.

We look into how to set up a good Crush Map and handle the placement and device types of your OSDs in your clusters. The crush map describes where, what type, how much and what is your failure domain or safety requirements. One thing we will do a lot throughout this demonstration is to view […]

This guide is the result of months of trial and error. It follows a bunch of different documentations and issue reports. If you want to follow along in video form there is a playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP2v7zU48xOJbK1HeOPxoBaxqBKtOAJB8 The machines used in this guide is one controller node with 4 CPUs, at least 10 GB of memory and […]