As a developer, I had a need to spin up VMs as and when required. The more I started working on Kubernetes, the need to automate the spinning up of multiple VMs to bring up a setup for configuring a cluster. There were several options, solutions already available to automate the same on KVM. However,…
Category: Installation Steps
Installing KVM
Pre-requisite Install Debian 11 or Ubuntu 20.04 server as required. Optional I had upgraded the kernel version by compiling the kernel as explained in this how-to. Installing KVM on Debian Simple and easy – First, install the required packages apt install -y qemu-kvm libvirt-clients libvirt-daemon-system bridge-utils virtinst libvirt-daemon virt-manager Additionally, I had installed libguestfs-tools, for…
Installing NFS Server
The objective is to configure the NFS server on one of the servers in the LAB. Creating the NFS client-server setup is a simple task that can be performed in a few steps – installation, export, mounting, and access. On the server install the required package apt install -y nfs-kernel-server Create a directory that gets…
Openstack – Train : Cinder – Block storage service
<<< Horizon Configure networks, router, flavour and launch instance >>> Create database for cinder services CREATE DATABASE cinder;GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON cinder.* TO ‘cinder’@’localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘password’;GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON…
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Openstack – Train : Placement services
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Openstack – Train : Keystone – Identity service
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