The provided virtual appliance contains all core OpenStack services on a single virtual machine. To download the appliance, please go to the official book repository at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Preparing-for-the-Certified-OpenStack-Administrator-Exam.
See Figure 2.1. The appliance runs inside VirtualBox which runs on your host operating system. Figure 2.2 provides some additional information about the virtual appliance details. We will talk more about this as we progress through the chapters.
Figure 2.1: The virtual appliance contains all core OpenStack services featured on the COA exam
The Ceilometer Telemetry service is not a required learning objective on the exam and is not installed on the virtual appliance.
Figure 2.2: Information about the virtual appliance included with this book