This is an overview of the deployment process that can be utilized for planning purposes:
Hardware setup:
- Rack and stack
- Cabling
- iDRAC setup
- PXE NIC configuration
- Server BIOS and RAID configuration
- Switch configuration
Software setup:
- Deploy SAH for provisioning services:
- Deploy Red Hat OpenStack Director Virtual Server ( VM ) to the SAH .
- Discover nodes
- Import discovered nodes into Red Hat OpenStack Director
- Configure overcloud files
- Provision overcloud
- Validate all nodes networking
- Post-deployment, including but not limited to:
- Enabling fencing
- Enabling local storage for ephemeral
Environment tests
- Tempest can be used to validate the deployment. At minimum the following tests should be performed:
- Project creation
- User creation
- Network creation
- Image upload and launch
- Floating IPaAssignment
- Basic network testing
- Volume creation and attachment to VM
- Object storage upload, retrieval and deletion
- Deletion of all artifacts created during validation.