OpenStack

OpenStack

OpenStack consists of a number services for running IaaS clouds. This includes Object Store (Swift), Compute (Nova) and Image (Glance) services, among others.

• Fedora 16 includes OpenStack Diablo
• Fedora 17 includes OpenStack Essex
• Fedora 18 includes OpenStack Folsom
• Fedora 19 includes OpenStack Grizzly
• Fedora 20 includes OpenStack Havana.
• Fedora 21 will include OpenStack Icehouse, packages to test on F20 are available via RDO http://openstack.redhat.com/Quickstart
• Fedora 22 will include OpenStack Juno.

This page tracks Fedora Cloud SIG's effort to maintain OpenStack in Fedora. See our periodic status reports for an insight into what's been happening.

Getting Started

See Getting started with OpenStack Nova, Getting started with OpenStack on Fedora 17 or Getting started with OpenStack EPEL for details on how to try out the OpenStack packages.

Preview repository

OpenStack has a preview repository, allowing Fedora N-1 users to try out OpenStack packages from the latest Fedora release etc. This is similar to the Virtualization Preview Repository.

Preview packages, may be installed from the side repository using yum after downloading the appropriate .repo file to /etc/yum.repos.d

Test days

Fedora OpenStack test days are very useful both to test new packages and as a quick way to get up to speed on the various OpenStack components.

• Fedora 18 (Folsom)

Packages

You can query all Fedora OpenStack packages and drill down there to builds, bugs, source, etc.

Images

Download offical Fedora 19 cloud images from http://cloud.fedoraproject.org/.

Also users can build their own cloud images using Oz.

OpenStack Official Documentation

• OpenStack Manuals

OpenStack in EPEL

The OpenStack Folsom was retired from EPEL 6. Please visit RDO project for running OpenStack on EL platforms.

Links

• Quantum