Vagrant with OpenStack

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If you want to use Vagrant with OpenStack, you need to prepare Vagrant with installing the vagrant-openstack-plugin. I had some problems installing it directly through vagrant plugin install. I had to clone it from Github and install it manually.

One time configuration 🔗

Install OpenStack plugin in Vagrant 🔗

cd /tmp
git clone https://github.com/cloudbau/vagrant-openstack-plugin
cd vagrant-openstack-plugin
gem build vagrant-openstack-plugin.gemspec
vagrant plugin install vagrant-openstack-plugin-*.gem

Add a dummy box to Vagrant thats needed by the plugin.

vagrant box add dummy https://github.com/cloudbau/vagrant-openstack-plugin/raw/master/dummy.box

Download OpenStack RC file 🔗

  • Log into OpenStack
  • Download OpenStack API RC file
    • Go to Project -> Compute -> Access & Security -> API Access
    • Down RC file by hitting Download OpenStack RC File
    • Put $USER-openrc.sh in your ~/ or somewhere you prefer

Configure a Vagrant VM 🔗

Vagrantfile 🔗

This is a default generic Vagrant file which starts a m1.tiny flavor image of Ubuntu Utopic. It requires that you already have added your ssh key to OpenStack. Please add your ssh key with the name $USER_ssh_key.

require 'vagrant-openstack-plugin'

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vm.box = "dummy"
  config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant", type: "rsync", rsync__exclude: ".git/"

  # Make sure the private key from the key pair is provided
  config.ssh.private_key_path = "~/.ssh/id_rsa"

  config.vm.provider :openstack do |os|
    os.username     = "#{ENV['OS_USERNAME']}"
    os.api_key      = "#{ENV['OS_PASSWORD']}"
    os.flavor       = /m1.tiny/
    os.image        = "Ubuntu CI utopic 2014-09-18"
    os.endpoint     = "#{ENV['OS_AUTH_URL']}/tokens"
    os.keypair_name = "#{ENV['OS_USERNAME']}_ssh_key"
    os.ssh_username = "ubuntu"

    # The tenant have two networks, so need to specify at least one
    os.network = "vagrant"
    os.floating_ip        = :auto
    os.floating_ip_pool   = "public"
  end

  config.vm.provision "shell", path: "bootstrap.sh"

  config.vm.provision "shell", inline: <<-SCRIPT
    # Set your country code here to get a local repositroy
    CN="no"
    grep -q repo.met.no /etc/apt/sources.list || sed -i~ "s#nova.clouds.archive.ubuntu.com#$CN.archive.ubuntu.com#g" /etc/apt/sources.list
    apt-get update
  SCRIPT

  config.vm.define "myvm" do |v|
  end
end

bootstrap.sh 🔗

Create your custom bootstrap file.

#!/bin/bash

# Your aditional bootstrap here...

Running Vagrant 🔗

Remember to source your OpenStack RC file before you run Vagrant up. You need to do that in each shell windows you are going to run Vagrant in.

source ~/$USER-openrc.sh
vagrant up
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