Ubuntu – OpenStack deployment with MAAS, Juju and Autopilot

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I have a problema with my cluster installation. I intend to install OpenStack on my ready set of machines, where each one has 2 NIC and 2 hard disks.

I installed the MAAS controller and Juju on a seventh machine and deployed the landscape scalable bundle. After logging-in into Landscape, it states that the fourth requirement is not fulfilled, because of the lack of a least one machine with two disks and two network interfaces.

MAAS states that I have six machines but the size of disk is of one disk only. I tried to deploy ubuntu on one of them and the second hard disk is present as 'sdb', even though not formatted. MAAS also stats every node has two network interfaces.

What am I doing wrong? I cannot figure out! Should I try to deploy OpenStack with Juju manually?

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Landscape queries MAAS to determine which nodes have multiple network devices. Does MAAS show at least one of the nodes as having two or more MAC addresses connected to networks e.g. if you go on the node page, it should say something like 'AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF (on maas-eth1)'

If your nodes are on a secondary network which is not MAAS managed, you will have to manually add that network and associate the MAC addresses with it. See the MAAS docs for help on doing that.

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You can use the following:

# If you used the install-openstack tool, you want to do this first:
export JUJU_HOME=~/.cloud-install/juju
juju status

# Get an interactive shell with the right ENV sourced on the landscape
# server itself.
juju ssh landscape/0 sudo 'JUJU_HOME=/var/lib/landscape/juju-homes/`sudo ls -rt /var/lib/landscape/juju-homes/ | tail -1` sudo -u landscape -E bash'

# (or maybe this depending on your version of the tools)
juju ssh landscape-server/0 sudo 'JUJU_HOME=/var/lib/landscape/juju-homes/`sudo ls -rt /var/lib/landscape/juju-homes/ | tail -1` sudo -u landscape -E bash'

# You should see a lot of openstack services with this command:
juju status

Ubuntu – Public IP for landscape dashboard

Unfortunately, the easiest for now is to access Landscape on the ip address given. You can use something like sshuttle or ssh -D to get access to an environment quite easily with almost no setup.

If you need to create an external IP, the IP address you create needs to be accessible to all the nodes, and the outside.Then you can make a change to the Landscape juju environment like this:

export JUJU_HOME=~/.cloud-install/juju
juju set apache2 servername=<hostname-you-want>

Follow juju debug-log and you should see the charms reacting to the change and updating the root_url correctly.

Once you have access to Landscape, you can continue with installing the OpenStack cloud on the remaining 3 machines. As it is from your description, it sounds like you have this right now:

Machine 1: MAAS
Machine 2: Landscape
Machines 3-5: unused

When you login to Landscape, you will need to continue following the instructions on the page you linked to.

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