Heat/GettingStartedUsingMasterOnUbuntu
This guide will help to get the current git master of Heat to run on Ubuntu. It makes the following assumptions:
- The host is running Ubuntu 12.04 or 12.10
- There is a working OpenStack installation based on Essex or Folsom
- Heat will be installed on the controller host of the existing OpenStack installation (or if doing a single-host evaluation, on the same host as all other OpenStack services)
Load keystone authentication into your environment and verify everything is ok.
source <keystonerc for an admin user> keystone user-list
Install prerequisites
sudo apt-get install python-pip gcc python2.7-dev sudo apt-get install git sudo apt-get install build-essential devscripts debhelper python-all gdebi-core sudo apt-get install python-setuptools python-prettytable python-lxml sudo apt-get install libguestfs*
Install python-heatclient (optional)
- NOTE* If running 12.04 LTS with the packaged Openstack Essex release, do not install python-heatclient, as it will break your OpenStack installation, because it explicitly requires a version of the prettytable library (>0.6) which causes problems with the Essex cli tools (keystone/nova/glance) in 12.04 : https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/995976 The packaged python-prettytable (0.5 version) works OK
sudo pip install extras python-heatclient
Install Heat from master
git clone git://github.com/openstack/heat.git cd heat sudo ./install.sh
Modify configuration for admin password
Later a keystone user called heat will be created. At this point a password for that user needs to be chosen. The following files will need editing:
- /etc/heat/heat-api-cfn-paste.ini
- /etc/heat/heat-api-cloudwatch-paste.ini
- /etc/heat/heat-api-paste.ini
[filter:authtoken] admin_password=<heat admin password>
Create the MySQL Heat database:
sudo heat-db-setup deb -r <mysql password>
Create the keystone authentication parameters
sudo -E ./bin/heat-keystone-setup
Install Oz from the upstream master location
git clone https://github.com/clalancette/oz.git cd oz make deb cd .. sudo dpkg -i oz_*_all.deb sudo apt-get -f install
Note: Select yes to "Create or update supermin appliance.". This will rebuild the guestfs appliance to work with latest updates of Ubuntu. Oz will not work properly without updating the guestfs appliance.
Note: We recommend cloning oz from the latest master. The debian packaging is broken in older versions and U10/U12 support is not available in Oz shipped with distros.
Install heat-jeos from master
The heat-jeos tool builds virtual machine images for use with Heat.
git clone git://github.com/heat-api/heat-jeos.git cd heat-jeos sudo python setup.py install
Download ISO images for various distributions
If you just want to try a basic wordpress template, download [Ubuntu 10.04.4 Server](http://releases.ubuntu.com/10.04.4/ubuntu-10.04.4-server-amd64.iso)
If you want to try more templates, also download [Fedora 17](http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/17/Fedora/x86_64/iso/Fedora-17-x86_64-DVD.iso)
After download completes, copy the iso image to the location heat-jeos expects:
sudo cp Downloads/ubuntu-10.04.4-server-amd64.iso /var/lib/libvirt/images
Configure your host to work with Heat
Create SSH key and add it to the Nova sshkey list
ssh-keygen -t rsa nova keypair-add --pub_key ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub ${USER}_key
Note: If running in a VM, modify /etc/libvirt/qemu/networks/default.xml:
change network to not conflict with host (default 192.168.122.x)
sudo service libvirt-bin restart
If dnsmasq is not running on the default network
sudo virsh net-destroy default sudo virsh net-start default
Configure libguestfs (required by Oz) to work in latest Ubuntu 12
Some files shipped with Ubuntu 12 are incompatible with libguestfs used by the image creation software Oz. To allow heat-jeos to work properly, run the following commands:
sudo chmod 644 /boot/vmlinuz* sudo update-guestfs-appliance
Note: For more details see: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.guestfs/1382 and http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-faq.1.html
Note: If you want to create F17 images, you may need a new libguestfs binary of version 1.18.0 or later. Ubuntu Precise may not have this version yet.
You can use the Debian Wheezy version including the [guestfs shared library](http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/amd64/libguestfs0/download), the [tools](http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/amd64/libguestfs-tools/download) and the and the [python libraries](http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/amd64/python-guestfs/download).
Create the Heat JEOS image
sudo -E heat-jeos -y create U10-x86_64-cfntools --register-with-glance
Note: The -E option to sudo preserves the environment, specifically the keystone credentials, when heat-jeos is run as root.
Note: heat-jeos must be run as root in order to create the cfntools disk image.
Experiment with Heat
Execute the heat api services
sudo heat-engine & sudo heat-api & sudo heat-api-cfn & sudo heat-api-cloudwatch &
Run the debian wordpress example
heat stack-create wordpress --template-file=templates/WordPress_Single_Instance_deb.template --parameters="InstanceType=m1.xlarge;DBUsername=${USER};DBPassword=verybadpassword;KeyName=${USER}_key;LinuxDistribution=U10"
List stacks
heat stack-list
List stack events
heat event-list wordpress
Describe the wordpress stack
heat stack-show wordpress
Note: After a few seconds, the Status should change from IN_PROGRESS to CREATE_COMPLETE.
Verify instance creation
Because the software takes some time to install from the repository, it may be a few minutes before the Wordpress intance is in a running state.
Point a web browser at the location given by the WebsiteURL Output as shown by heat show-stack wordpress::
wget ${WebsiteURL}
Delete the instance when done
heat stack-delete wordpress heat stack-list
Note: This operation will show no running stack.
Troubleshooting
If you encounter issues running heat, see if the solution to the issue is documented on the Troubleshooting wiki page. If not, let us know about the problem in the #heat IRC channel on freenode.