The cloud computing systems in OpenStack are hosted and managed by the Compute service. This service is one of the dominant parts of the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) system. The Compute service refers to the Identity service for authentication, the Image service for disk and server images, and the dashboard for the user and administrative interface. The Compute service can scale horizontally and it launches instances from the downloaded images.
We will look at installing and configuring the Compute service on the controller node.
We need to create database, credentials, and API endpoints so that we can install and configure the Compute service. The steps are as follows:
Here are the steps to create a database:
Connect to the database server as root user using the following command:
mysql -u root –pCreate a new database named
novausing the following command:CREATE DATABASE nova;Grant all the...