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> From: Salvatore Orlando <sorlando at nicira.com>
> To: Mike Spreitzer/Watson/IBM at IBMUS
> Cc: OpenStack <openstack at lists.openstack.org>
> Date: 10/06/2014 05:40 PM
> Subject: Re: [Openstack] How to make DevStack install OpenStack with 
Neutron?
> 
> Some (hopefully) helpful answer inline.
> 
> Salvatore 
> 
> On 6 October 2014 22:45, Mike Spreitzer <mspreitz at us.ibm.com> wrote:
> Is it possible to use DevStack to install OpenStack, including 
> Neutron, so that OpenStack can make a VM that can communicate with 
> the world beyond OpenStack?  I am looking for a simple localrc or 
> local.conf that will do this. 
> 
> This is a localrc I have been using for ages for launching neutron 
> (with a few changes over time, of course): http://
> paste.openstack.org/show/119143/ 

When I open http://paste.openstack.org/show/119143/ in my browser, I see 
this:

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your 
request. Either the server is overloaded or there is an error in the 
application.

> Let us take a concrete example.  Suppose I have a machine with one NIC, 
at 
> 10.84.133.238/28.  It has a simple routing table: one entry for the 
> local subnet, one default route through a gateway at 10.84.133.225. 
> I have nothing else on the 10.84.133.238/28 subnet, I can use the 
> other addresses (aside from .224 and .239) for VMs. What do I put in
> my localrc?  Do I have to fix up anything after stack.sh completes?
> 
> If that's your only interface, there is no need to specify anything 
> in localrc.

You mean I do not have to set PUBLIC_NETWORK_GATEWAY=10.84.133.225 in my 
localrc?  I guess I am still confused about a basic fact about 
PUBLIC_NETWORK_GATEWAY: is this the IP address of a pre-existing gateway 
between my host's subnet and the wider world, or is it the IP address that 
DevStack will assign to a gateway that DevStack creates between 
OpenStack's external and private networks?

> I rarely do that, but if you wish to use flat or vlan networking 
> you'll probably need to specify the name of a bridge in localrc.

To start with, I'll settle for anything that works.


> Once I have a working OpenStack, the remaining questions are about 
> how to use it to create a VM with the desired ability.  That would 
> be as the demo user, in the demo tenant, right?  I would need a 
> security group that allows the desired communication, of course.  
> Create the VM on the private net, give it a floating IP on the 
> public network.  Any tricks missed here? 
> 
> Devstack will give you a private network connected to a router which
> is uplinked to the external network. So you're right - you just need
> to boot a vm and assign a floating ip to its port.
>  
> Does it matter whether my machine at 10.84.133.238 is a bare metal 
> machine or a VM in some undercloud? 
> 
> I don't think it matters, at least with the ML2 plugin and OVS/LB 
> mech drivers - plus other plugins I know of. But restrictions might 
> exist with other plugins of which I'm not aware.
>  
> 
> Does it matter whether my machine has multiple ethN interfaces that 
> have been bonded to make the interface (named bond0) in use? 
> 
> I don't think it matters at all, especially if you have a single node 
setup.

Thanks,
Mike
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