OpenStack Installation on RHEL7 System

There's a simple "Get Started" Guide on the redhat website, which briefly outlines how to get a sample OpenStack system up and running in 5 steps. The first, easily overlooked step is to start by installing a "minimum-install" version of RHEL7 on a physical system. If you've already set up and configured a system that you're using for everyday tasks and/or work functions, be aware that the installation will repeatedly fail with errors due to incompatible options, missing dependencies, etc. Provided that you've followed the consequent steps in the guide to register the system and enable the pertinent repositories, the next step is to install and run the packstack script: # yum install openstack-packstack # packstack --allinone This is a rather lengthy python script that uses some puppet modules to install the necessary software components and configures the system as the OpenStack All-in-One server. According to the packstac