Before going directly to the installation process, it might be necessary to check how the OpenStack environment will be deployed. This is very important to plan in advance in order to get our private cloud lab consistent without any errors. OpenStack is very modular and can be deployed in many ways.

Depending on your needs and requirements, the installation can be diversified in different layouts and topologies. For example, networking in OpenStack is becoming very advanced and a lack of understanding of one of the major components and plugins might lead to non-functional infrastructure especially when it comes to launch instances. Covering the different architectures of OpenStack is out of the scope of this book. The OpenStack portal www.openstack.org exposes very rich and detailed content on different designs approaches. However, it is essential to start with a minimal architecture in a basic environment for test purposes. Therefore, it is possible...