Casaba is a utility to install OpenStack on Red Hat based operating system. Casaba is originally forked from Packstack, but it use Puppet C/S mode to take place of standalone mode. Besides that, it not only used for POC environment, but also for deploying OpenStack production environment with dedicated design.

This utility is still in the early stages, a lot of the services and functions need to be added.

$ yum install -y git
$ git clone git://github.com/openstack/casaba.git
$ cd casaba && sudo python setup.py install

$ export GEM_HOME=/tmp/somedir
$ gem install r10k
$ sudo -E /tmp/somedir/bin/r10k puppetfile install -v
$ sudo cp -r casaba/puppet/modules/casaba /usr/share/openstack-puppet/modules

$ casaba --allinone

This will install all OpenStack services on a single host without prompting for any configuration information. This will generate an "answers" file (casaba-answers-<date>-<time>.txt) containing all the values used for the install.

If you need to re-run casaba, you must use the --answer-file option in order for casaba to use the correct values for passwords and other authentication credentials:

$ casaba --answer-file casaba-answers-<date>-<time>.txt

$ casaba --gen-answer-file=ans.txt

Then edit ans.txt as appropriate e.g.

• set CONFIG_SSH_KEY to a public ssh key to be installed to remote machines
• Edit the IP address to anywhere you want to install a piece of OpenStack on another server
• Edit the 3 network interfaces to whatever makes sense in your setup

you'll need to use a icehouse repository for example for RHEL

$ CONFIG_REPO=http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/openstack/openstack-icehouse/epel-6/

$ casaba --answer-file=ans.txt

$ casaba

that's it, if everything went well you can now start using OpenStack

$ cd
$ . keystonerc_admin
$ nova list
$ swift list  # if you have installed swift

• CONFIG_NOVA_COMPUTE_HOSTS :
  • A comma separated list of ip addresses on which to install nova compute
• CONFIG_SWIFT_STORAGE_HOSTS :
  • A comma separated list of swift storage devices
    • 1.1.1.1: create a testing loopback device and use this for storage
    • 1.1.1.1/sdb: use /dev/sdb on 1.1.1.1 as a storage device

The location of the log files and generated puppet manifests are in the /var/tmp/casaba directory under a directory named by the date in which Casaba was run and a random string (e.g. /var/tmp/casaba/20131022-204316-Bf3Ek2). Inside, we find a manifest directory and the openstack-setup.log file; puppet manifests and a log file for each one are found inside the manifest directory.

To make Casaba write more detailed information into the log file you can use the -d switch:

$ casaba -d --allinone