OpenStack on Microsoft Azure – Part 2 – Preparing the VM for RHOSP deployment

Preparing the Azure VM for RHOSP installation Now that we have a Red Hat VM on Azure, let’s proceed to installing required packages for virtualization such as KVM, register the machine with Red Hat and enable OpenStack repositories. To begin login to the Azure VM using an ssh client (such as the terminal in linux/mac…

OpenStack on Microsoft Azure – Part 1 – Creating the Virtual Machine

In this 4 part article we take a look at how to deploy a single node all-in-one OpenStack cloud on an Azure VM. This has been possible because of the availability of Azure VMs that support nested virtualization. Needless to say this is purely for evaluation/learning purposes only. OpenStack distribution: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10…

OpenStack Packstack installation error – “ERROR:root:Failed to load plugin from file ssl_001.py”

When running packtack –allinone command if you receive error like below check if python-setuptools is installed. Sometimes I have found it’s not installed during dependency install. ERROR:root:Failed to load plugin from file ssl_001.py ERROR:root:Traceback (most recent call last): File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/packstack/installer/run_setup.py”, line 923, in loadPlugins moduleobj = __import__(moduleToLoad) File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/packstack/plugins/ssl_001.py”, line 20, in <module> from OpenSSL…