60 Recipes for Apache CloudStack

Chapter 2. Installing from Packages

Most users will not install CloudStack from source, so in this chapter, we’ll look at the installation process using community-provided binaries. These instructions are valid on an Ubuntu 14.04 server system; you might need to adapt them if you are on a different operating system.

We are going to set up a CloudStack infrastructure consisting of two machines. One will be running the CloudStack management server, a MySQL database, and an NFS server. The other will be set up as a KVM hypervisor; it will mount the NFS share exported by the management server and will have a Linux bridge set up for all the virtual machines to attach to.

We will set up a basic networking zone (illustrated in Figure 2-1), which means that we will use a shared layer 3 network. Isolation of tenants will be through security groups; no VLANs or other layer 2 isolation method will be used. This will be very similar to the DevCloud (Recipe 1.5) setup, but will use packages instead of a source build, and KVM instead of a Xen hypervisor.

For complete installation instructions, see the official documentation; this is just a quick start guide to get you off the ground. Although the recipes can be read independently of one another, if you want to do a complete install of CloudStack, you will need to review all of the recipes in this chapter.

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The Apache Software Foundation does not release binaries, so keep in mind that these hosted packages are made available by community members ...