CloudStack is an open-source cloud computing software that provides a complete infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform. It can be used to create, manage, and deploy cloud instances and virtual machines. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install CloudStack on Fedora CoreOS Latest.
Before we proceed with the installation, we need to make sure that the following requirements are met:
First, we need to install some dependencies required by CloudStack:
sudo dnf install -y java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel maven rpm-build python3 wget
Next, we need to download the latest version of CloudStack and extract it to the desired location. For this tutorial, we will download version 4.14.1:
cd ~
wget https://downloads.apache.org/cloudstack/4.14.1/apache-cloudstack-4.14.1-src.tar.bz2
tar -xvjf apache-cloudstack-4.14.1-src.tar.bz2
After extracting the CloudStack source files, we need to build the packages using Maven:
cd apache-cloudstack-4.14.1-src
mvn -P developer -Dsimulator -DskipTests clean install
Once the packages are built, we can install them using RPM:
cd packaging
sudo rpm -ivh cloudstack-management-4.14.1.0.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm cloudstack-usage-4.14.1.0.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm cloudstack-common-4.14.1.0.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm cloudstack-agent-4.14.1.0.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm
After installing the packages, we need to configure CloudStack. For this, we will use the MySQL database:
sudo dnf install -y mysql-server
sudo systemctl start mysqld
sudo systemctl enable mysqld
We also need to create a database and a user for CloudStack:
sudo mysql_secure_installation
sudo mysql -u root -p
mysql> CREATE DATABASE cloud;
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON cloud.* TO 'cloud'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
mysql> exit
Finally, we need to configure CloudStack using the setup command:
sudo cloudstack-setup-databases cloud:password@localhost --deploy-as=root
Once the configuration is complete, we can start the CloudStack services:
sudo systemctl start cloudstack-management
sudo systemctl enable cloudstack-management
sudo systemctl start cloudstack-agent
sudo systemctl enable cloudstack-agent
We can now access the CloudStack dashboard using the following URL:
http://<Fedora CoreOS IP address>:8080/client/
Congratulations! You have successfully installed CloudStack on Fedora CoreOS Latest. Now you can create, manage, and deploy virtual machines on your cloud infrastructure.
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