OpenStack is Network intensive. The setup I had previously, based around a Juniper Router, did not have enough Ports to reflect a real OpenStack deployment. I decided to forgo GigE speeds and get an older Cicso Catalyst 2960-WS Switch. Here is the new setup.
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I do this infrequently enough that I want to record a reminder how I do it:
sudo cp ~/Downloads/rhel-server-7.6-x86_64-kvm.qcow2 /var/lib/libvirt/images/tower.qcow2 sudo virt-install --vcpus=2 --name tower --ram 4096 --import --disk /var/lib/libvirt/images/tower.qcow2 |
Not all of my virtual machines run on OpenStack; I have to run a fair number of virtual machines on my personal workstation via libvirt. However, I like using the cloud versions of RHEL, as they most closely match what I do run in OpenStack. The disconnect is that the Cloud images are designed to accept cloud-init, which pulls the ssh public keys from a metadata web server. Without that, there are no public keys added to the cloud-user account, and the VM is unaccessable. Here is how I add the ssh keys manually.
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Ozz did a fantastic job laying out the rules around policy. This article assumes you’ve read that. I’ll wait.
