Milestone 8 - OpenStack

Super31:

IPMI: 192.168.7.180

IP:

Initial Xubuntu Setup

First we (Paul and I) created a bootable USB with Xubuntu desktop using Rufus (16kb block size.)

Then from the IPMI login, we launched a iKVM console:

Then we installed Xubuntu (screenshots of the process like picking USB, non-default options selected, shown below):

Restarted Xubuntu installer once it was completed:

(Needed to press Enter on the black screen)

Openstack install using Microstack

After Xubuntu was installed, we installed Microstack:

sudo snap install microstack --devmode --beta

Microstack installed:

Then we Initialized Microstack:

sudo microstack init --auto --control

Microstack Initialized:

After that we used the following to get our Microstack password:

sudo snap get microstack config.credentials.keystone-password

Then we went to " https://10.20.20.1" and logged in:

We then launched a cirros instance (had to wait for it to boot before running the next SSH command):

Then used the following command to SSH into the instance:

ssh -i /home/poliver/snap/microstack/common/.shh/id_microstack crirros@10.20.20.59

VNC install

First we installed VNC server on the Xubuntu box with the following:

sudo apt update -y
sudo apt install xfce xfce4-goodies openssh-server -y
sudo apt install tightvncserver -y
vncserver

Then killed the VNC instance and copied the xstartup (to have a backup):

vncserver -kill :1
cp ~/.vnc/xstartup ~/.vnc/xstartup.bak

Filled ~/.vnc/xstartup with the following (setup is for XFCE as that is what Xubuntu runs):

Then started VNC server:

vncserver -localhost

Afterwards I installed vnc viewer on my desktop, and after using the following command to start a secure SSH session with the Xubuntu VNC server I could connect to the remote desktop at "localhost:59000":

ssh -L 59000:localhost:5901 -C -N -l poliver 192.168.7.94

(NOTE: On Xubuntu, I needed to install google chrome as firefox did not work in the vnc viewer!)